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Curtsies and Hand Grenades: Female Filmmaker Project: Tank Girl (Rachel Talalay, 1995)
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Curtsies and Hand Grenades. Tuesday, July 21, 2015. Female Filmmaker Project: Tank Girl (Rachel Talalay, 1995). Rachel Talalay wanted to make an action picture. That was like nothing else currently on the market. She was fed up with the idea of female action heroes whose characteristics were identical to that of men, but transferred to a female body. She loved the Tank Girl. But this is Tank Girl. Is at it's very best when it is loosely jamming many different parts of cinema (comic book animation, dance ...
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Curtsies and Hand Grenades: Female Filmmaker Project: SuperDyke (Barbara Hammer, 1975)
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Curtsies and Hand Grenades. Sunday, June 21, 2015. Female Filmmaker Project: SuperDyke (Barbara Hammer, 1975). If Themyscria is a supposed feminine ideal and a place of paradise for Amazonian Women in Wonder Woman. Then Barbara Hammer's movies seek out to create Themyscria for lesbians within her cinema. SuperDyke. Hammer keeps the filmmaking interesting as well, and it'd have been easy for her to go back to the quick cutting and dissolve heavy imagery of her previous shorts Dyketactics. Progress Never S...
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Curtsies and Hand Grenades: Existing: Transgender Representation in Sense8
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Curtsies and Hand Grenades. Sunday, June 28, 2015. Existing: Transgender Representation in Sense8. Lana Wachowski has given trans women a character so wholly different from the normal palette of transgender women in film and television that she feels like a springboard moment in what is hopefully more respectful and understood characterization of an often completely botched segment of people in film narratives. And Sophia in Orange is the New Black). A murderer ( Dressed to Kill). And Dallas Buyer's Club.
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Curtsies and Hand Grenades: August 2014
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Curtsies and Hand Grenades. Friday, August 15, 2014. Let's Call it Love Part 3: Sympathy. God please let me be able to have children. Please let me wake up in a new body. I want to be a girl. I want to be like all my friends and I want my parents to treat me like their daughter. Please let me be a mommy someday. I think I would be good at it. I take care of Tyler all the time and I like kids. I'll do anything you want me to if you make this happen. I'll go to church all the time and be good. I swear.
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Curtsies and Hand Grenades: February 2015
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Curtsies and Hand Grenades. Wednesday, February 25, 2015. Female Filmmaker Project: The Day I Became a Woman (Marziyeh Meshkini, 2000). One is not born. But rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir's words come to mind when viewing The Day I Became a Woman. Is also about expectations brought upon women by simply being, and it lies in the intersection of women living in the middle east, which is a narrative that isn't as common in wider feminist film discussion. Labels: Female Filmmaker Project. The ma...
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Curtsies and Hand Grenades: October 2014
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Curtsies and Hand Grenades. Saturday, October 25, 2014. True Trans: In Celebration of Transgender and Gender Variant People. One woman sits in an abandoned studio strumming gently on a guitar. She wears black clothing, her nail polished is a little chipped, and her hair obscures her face, She isn't singing, but these sounds emitting from her guitar provide background for a chorus of voices that were muted in a past life. The chorus of voices is what makes Laura Jane Grace's True Trans. Film Write Up #2.
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Curtsies and Hand Grenades: May 2015
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Curtsies and Hand Grenades. Saturday, May 30, 2015. Female Filmmaker Project: Girlhood (Celine Sciamma, 2014). Is then a misleading title as Bande de Filles. Turns into the story of Vic, but it was always only about her, even with diamonds by her side through much of it. For similar instances of Adolescent Crime), and it's refreshing to see Sciamma giver Vic the space to explore her age and her choices. More cinema like this should exist ,. Will be the first in a trend instead of an outlier in a sea of a...
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Curtsies and Hand Grenades: August 2015
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Curtsies and Hand Grenades. Thursday, August 27, 2015. Queerness and Corn: Tom at the Farm (Xavier Dolan, 2014). The two images above offer a snapshot of the stylistic differences one can come to expect from Xavier Dolan's attempt at stripping down his aesthetics to suit the text surrounding his queer thriller, Tom at the Farm. But when that is inverted into a chorus of maybes and almosts as it is here it feels like a betrayal. Perhaps, that is the ultimate point of Tom at the Farm. And why the eventual ...
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Curtsies and Hand Grenades: Female Filmmaker Project: Dance, Girl, Dance (Dorothy Arzner, 1940)
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Curtsies and Hand Grenades. Sunday, July 26, 2015. Female Filmmaker Project: Dance, Girl, Dance (Dorothy Arzner, 1940). I cannot speak objectively with movies about dance. There is no greater sense of joy than the intersection of music, plus cinema, plus movement. The moments where characters simply decide it's time to move and are accompanied by song stick with me like nothing else in all of filmmaking. The final frames of Beau Travail,. That's my cinema. So when Dance, Girl, Dance. She does the same fo...
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Curtsies and Hand Grenades: Female Filmmaker Project: Menses (Barbara Hammer, 1974)
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Curtsies and Hand Grenades. Wednesday, June 10, 2015. Female Filmmaker Project: Menses (Barbara Hammer, 1974). There's this Heavens to Betsy song that surfaced out of the riot grrrl movement entitled My Red Self. It's an angry anthem about how menstruation is treated as something to cover up and hide by society at large. In that song Corin Tucker would sing "So you make me hide the truth from you". Still feels very relevant. Feels connected to her previous feature Dyketactics,. Barbara Hammer week at Cur...
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