CRITICAL WOMEN ON FILM: He Said, She Said...Desire, Dread And Gender On Screen

10/9/11

He Said, She Said...Desire, Dread And Gender On Screen

The Skin I Live In

By Catherine Bray

'...Pedro Almodovar is no stranger to the outré. His films to date have incorporated nymphomania, child abuse, rape, S&M, murder, transvestitism, sex changes, comas, kidnappings, love triangles, incest, drugs and multiple other themes common to the loose genre of melodrama. The Skin That I Live In is nevertheless one of his most perverse films, something of an achievement...'

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Catherine Bray Channel 4 Film,
UK Guardian, Observer, The New Statesman

What's Your Number?

By Gerald Wright

'...The conflicts seem to bring in the audience by exposing sexual and social elements that are familiar. The acts of deception as Ally pretends to be someone she is not adds more to the continual battle between comfort and longing, plus fear and desire...'

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Gerald Wright
National Association of Black Journalists
HDfest.com Film Showcase

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EVERLASTING MOMENTS: WHEN WOMEN SOLD THEIR HAIR FOR BREAD

There is barely a single moment in this film that doesn't amaze and astonish. Whether focusing on the joys and tragedies of family life; the battles of exploited workers for their humanity; young girls selling their locks of hair for bread.

Or the flowering of this extraordinary woman as she slowly evolves into someone in the process of figuring out herself and the world, and painfully torn between being an artist and a mother.

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GIMME SHELTER: WFCC Member's New Book On The Housing Crisis And Surviving 'Real Estate Porn.'

Women Film Critics Circle member Mary Elizabeth Williams has a new book out from Simon & Schuster, GIMME SHELTER, an incisive personal exposé on the housing crisis and surviving 'real estate porn.'
Mary Elizabeth Williams is the cultural critic for Public Radio International's morning news show, The Takeaway, and a regular contributor to Salon.com. She has written for many publications including The New York Times and The New York Observer.

"Of course I want a home," writes Mary Elizabeth, "I'm American." Gimme Shelter is the first book to reveal how this primal desire, "encoded into our cultural DNA," drove our nation to extremes, from the heights of an unprecedented housing boom to the depths of an unparalleled crash.

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Georgina Lightning: One Of The First Native American Women Directors

Older Than America: One Of The First Feature Films By A Native American Woman, Georgina Lightning

Native American filmmaker Georgina Lightning also stars in her fact based feature film Older Than America, as a young woman haunted by the ghosts of murdered Cree Nation Catholic boarding school children. And she describes how her own father's tragic suicide, like many others suffering such centuries of physical, psychological and sexual abuse at these government organized boarding schools, inspired her film.

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Green Porno: You Won't Want Isabella To Get A Room

There's an eco-friendly peep show up on the Internet, Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno. From Isabella's six foot long insect penis to her flesh colored body tights boasting graphic anatomically correct female erogenous zones, this amazing series of short films promises never a dull moment sexy shock and awe.

The radiant colors and beyond imagination fantasy costumes and sets are indescribable. In our conversation with Isabella, we wanted to know if her primary impulse in creating Green Porno was to be sexy. And if not, what then?

Rossellini and Dragonflies Make A Porno. Not exactly bestiality, but don't expect Isabella to get a room. CONTINUE READING HERE...

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