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Category Archives: Film
Film comment: The latest Meryl Streep, and yet another token person of color
Last night I went to the movies with a couple of my friends to see the latest film starring Meryl Streep. I don’t actively follow any actors’ careers, but it’s obvious even to me that she’s one of the few … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film reviews, Uncategorized
Tagged August: Osage County, cinema, film, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, movies, racism in film, racism in movies, Tracy Letts
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Film comment: Not blaming the victim, not being a victim: Viewing “Flirting with Danger”
Unfortunately, there’s never a bad time to screen a film addressing violence against women, as it’s such a pervasive problem. But the timing of the premier of the Media Education Foundation’s new documentary, Flirting with Danger: Power and Choice in … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, Film, Northampton/Connecticut River Valley, Uncategorized
Tagged Amherst Cinema, Amherst College, Amherst Student, Daily Hampshire Gazette, date rape, Flirting with Danger: Power and Choice in Heterosexual Relationships, Lynn Phillips, Media Education Foundation, MEF, rape, UMass, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Film comment: “Hope Springs” and the necessity of writing about sex
The movie pickin’s being slim, especially since our small town’s only theater closed a few months ago, a friend and I recently set off for the mall-plex in the next town to see the latest Meryl Streep film. My friend … Continue reading
Film comment: El secreto del marketing (The secret in the marketing, and my problems with Juan José Campanella’s Oscar-winning film)
Spoiler alert: This post contains information, in paragraph 5, about the end of the film. Although Juan José Campanella’s El secreto de sus ojos (The Secret in their Eyes is the English title) had an extended run at our local … Continue reading
Posted in Argentina, Film, Film reviews, Uncategorized
Tagged "Secrets Trauma and the Memory Market", Academy Award Best Foreign Film 2009, Argentine film, Benjamin Esposito, Best Foreign Film Oscar 2009, Cine Journal, Diana Taylor, Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina’s Dirty War, El secreto de sus ojos, Irene Menendez Hastings, Juan Jose Campanella, neoliberalism and film, Secret in Their Eyes, Silvia Tandeciarz, trauma
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Film comment: ¿Buen camino? No Way!
A capsule review. I don’t think this contains spoiler alerts, as there’s nothing more to spoil. The latest Sheen/Estevez family project, The Way, is gorgeously filmed, but I’ve seen deeper ABC Afterschool Specials. The tale of an older man who … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film reviews, Uncategorized
Tagged " Martin Sheen, "The Way, 2010 films, Camino de Santiago, Emilio Estevez
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Film comment: Fishing for something deeper
Note: All of my film reviews contain plot “spoilers,” so consider yourself forewarned. Catfish is a great example of a film that could’ve been so much more, had it been made by more mature directors, but it’s also a perfect … Continue reading
Posted in Film reviews, Uncategorized
Tagged " internet, "Catfish, Ariel and Yaniv Schulman, Henry Joost
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Film comment: The dykes are all right – as long as they have het sex
“The Kids Are All Right” is the “Fatal Attraction” of the 2010s. In this case, the nuclear family has two mothers, the partner in the illicit fling is a man, and no bunnies are killed. The only casualties, in fact, … Continue reading
Posted in BLGTQ, Film reviews, Uncategorized
Tagged film review, lesbian, LGBT, same-sex marriage
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