The films of Federico Fellini are gateways into the more impenetrable corners of European cinema. And La Strada, his fourth feature film, was the first to set him on the path from Italian neorealism to his own personal style—one that can … Continue reading LA STRADA
A young woman knows where she is going. She always has. Today it is to the island of Kiloran in the Scottish Hebrides. It will take a day and a night to get there—first by train, then by boat—but when … Continue reading I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING!
For more than a decade, cinema’s faithful have flocked to the promised land every spring for the TCM Classic Film Festival: One long weekend on Hollywood Boulevard in the movie palaces of yore under the flickering images of the familiar … Continue reading Let’s Movie: 2021 TCM Classic Film Festival
On Dec. 1, TCM’s 14-week series Women Make Film comes to a close with movies on death, endings, and a little song and dance. When it’s all said and done, TCM’s series will have screened 100 movies from all six … Continue reading Sara Sugarman on VERY ANNIE MARY
About halfway through Sarah Polley’s 2013 documentary Stories We Tell, Michael Polley turns to his daughter and asked, “What is this documentary about?” Well, it’s about stories and, as Melissa Tamminga adds, “Storytelling.” In addition to writing film criticism for Seattle Screen … Continue reading Melissa Tamminga on STORIES WE TELL
If there’s a specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can’t change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. —Kathryn Bigelow Kathryn Bigelow was the fourth … Continue reading Barbara Bridges and Jill S. Tietjen on HOLLYWOOD: HER STORY
It’s been 10 years since the Social-Democratic War of Liberation: “The most peaceful revolution the world has known.” So opens director Lizzie Borden’s incendiary 1983 film, Born in Flames—a guerrilla-style collage of archival footage, documentary, and scripted narrative that’s as relevant … Continue reading Kelly Sears on BORN IN FLAMES
Tuesday, Oct. 13 marks the halfway point for TCM’s Women Make Film series—easily the cinematic highlight of 2020—and the premiere of the same-sex love story, Rafiki. Rafiki really encapsulates the spirit of the Women Make Film series,” TCM host Alicia Malone … Continue reading Alicia Malone on RAFIKI
For more than 30 years, Kirsten Johnson has seen the world from behind the camera. “[It’s] taught me to be quiet,” she says. “To wait for things. And listen and look at people’s bodies and the way they move as … Continue reading Kirsten Johnson on CAMERAPERSON
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