The radical notion that women like good movies
Written by Rachel Redfern Film poster for Blue is the Warmest Color Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue is the Warmest Color is the first film with a lesbian protagonist to win the prestigious Palm D’or Award at the Cannes Film Festival. The French drama is based on Julie Maroh’s graphic novel and centers on the life of … Continue reading “The Titillating Nature of Sex: Controversy in ‘Blue is the Warmest Color’”
Weddings and wedding movies are big business. Most little girls (or so the media tells us) dream of their wedding day. What dress they will wear, the bridesmaids, the music, the food, the cake and the groom. Oftentimes it’s an extension of the princess fantasy. Movies and TV shows (The Bachelor/Bachelorette, Say Yes to the … Continue reading “Call for Writers: Wedding Movies Week”
Still from There Is a New World Somewhere This is a guest post by Li Lu. It’s quite serendipitous that May is “Feminist Travel Films” month here on Bitch Flicks. My film, There Is a New World Somewhere (TIANWS), is exactly that. We are crowdfunding on Seed&Spark, a platform exclusive to truly independent films and … Continue reading “Travel Films Week: Finding a Brave ‘New World’”
This is a guest review by Steffen Loick and Ingrid Bettwieser. At a hasty glance, movies often tell stories about traveling to talk about the processes of longing. Longing for far about places, for something new, for something unachieved. As it seems, what is inscribed in the narrative of traveling in the end is the … Continue reading “Travel Films Week: Dialogic Explorations on ‘The Darjeeling Limited’ and ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’”
Movie poster for Little Miss Sunshine This is a guest review by Melissa Richard. Look around… this place is fucked! I don’t want these people judging Olive—fuck them! You’re the mom—you’re supposed to protect her! Everyone is gonna laugh at her, Mom… please don’t let her do this. Look, she’s not a beauty queen. She’s … Continue reading “Travel Films Week: Protecting Olive in ‘Little Miss Sunshine’”
Easy Rider poster: “A man went looking for America. And couldn’t find it anywhere…” “Although the masters make the rules / For the wise men and the fools / I got nothing, Ma, to live up to… For them that must obey authority / That they do not respect in any degree… My eyes collide … Continue reading “Travel Films Week: ‘Easy Rider’: Searching for a Free America That Doesn’t Exist”
Julia Roberts in Eat Pray Love Written by Megan Kearns. A version of this article was originally published at The Opinioness of the World. Cross-posted with permission. I had been looking forward to watching Eat, Pray, Love ever since I saw the trailer. I read the book a few ago, its popularity piqued my curiosity. … Continue reading “Travel Films Week: In Defense of ‘Eat, Pray, Love’”
The story of Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha continued in Sex and the City 2 (2010) This is a guest post by Emily Contois. I’m not embarrassed to admit it. I totally own the complete series of Sex and the City—the copious collection of DVDs nestled inside a bright pink binder-of-sorts, soft and textured to … Continue reading “Travel Films Week: ‘Sex and the City 2’: Hardcore Orientalism in the Desert of Abu Dhabi”
This guest post by Marisa Crawford previously appeared at Delirious Hem as part of their CHICK FLIX series and is cross-posted with permission. Geena Davis as Thelma and Susan Sarandon as Louise When I think about Thelma & Louise, I have to start at the end. When Thelma says, Let’s not get caught. When she … Continue reading “Travel Films Week: Let’s Keep Goin’: On Horror, Magic, Female Friendship & Power in ‘Thelma & Louise’”
Movie poster for Stories We Tell Written by Stephanie Rogers. We live in an age now when things seem … less “real” to me. Facebook lets us put our private lives on display, and even then, it’s a version of our lives that we edit, exaggerate perhaps, and invent—all for public consumption. People become … Continue reading “Sarah Polley’s ‘Stories We Tell’: A Radical Act”
Written by Myrna Waldron. Howl’s Moving Castle travelling through the mountains The next film featured in my “Miyazaki Month” retrospective is Howl’s Moving Castle. It was the successor to Spirited Away, which was supposed to be Miyazaki’s Swan Song, but then again so was Princess Mononoke. Dude’s never going to retire, and that’s just fine. … Continue reading “Miyazaki Month: Howl’s Moving Castle”
Filmmaker Violeta Barca-Fontana This is a guest post written by Violeta Barca-Fontana. INT. FILM SCHOOL, CLASSROOM – DAY First day of class at a film school in Madrid. Twenty impatient students are waiting for the teacher, PACO, a very well known film director. Also in the classroom is VIOLETA (20). The professor enters the classroom … Continue reading “Picture This: A Woman Goes to Film School and Becomes a Filmmaker”
