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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas’ Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study – Book Review by Marietta Steinhart (Guest Post)

July 9, 2021July 9, 2021 Jennifer Merin alexandra heller-nicholas, marietta steinhart, Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study

To mark the ten-year anniversary of her compelling book Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study, Australian film critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (who is a member of AWFJ) has released a seriously revised, second edition, including an exciting new chapter on women-directed rape-revenge films before and after the #MeToo Era. A lot has happened since 2011 and if the author sounds angry, she says, it’s because she is.

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NEVER GONNA SNOW AGAIN – Review by Marietta Steinhart (Guest Post)

May 7, 2021May 7, 2021 Jennifer Merin Agata Kulesza, Alec Utgoff, guest post, Maja Ostaszewska, Malgorzata Szumowska, marietta steinhart, Michal Englert, Never Gonna Snow Again, the female gaze

There is a spellbinding sense of fairy tale realism to Małgorzata Szumowska’s latest, her first co-directed film with long-time cinematographer Michał Englert. Never Gonna Snow Again is loaded with social commentary – it’s wicked and quietly wonderful.

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THE WIND – Review by Marietta Steinhart (Guest Post)

March 25, 2019December 29, 2019 awfj-admin 0 Comments emma tammi, marietta steinhart, the wind

Going back and forth in time while remaining in the same desolate cabin, Emma Tammi’s directorial feature debut The Wind journals the unraveling of Lizzy , a German immigrant and sensitive frontierswoman, holding down the farm with a rifle while her husband, Isaac, rides off into the sunset.

Festivals

Women’s View at Palm Springs International Film Festival 2019 – Marietta Steinhart reports (Guest post)

February 5, 2019December 29, 2019 awfj-admin 0 Comments Alissa Simon, Heebe Tebachnik, Jane Schoettle, Jessica Eskelin, lili Rodriguez, marietta steinhart, palmsprings international film festival, Therese Hayes

Programmed by a team of six remarkable women, plus two men, the 2019 Palm Springs International Film Festival showed 228 films of which 55 were either directed or co-directed by women (about 24 percent), leaving room for more female directors in the future. Nevertheless the festival has no lack in films with or about women.

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WIDOWS – Review by Marietta Steinhart (Guest Post)

January 31, 2019December 29, 2019 awfj-admin 0 Comments marietta steinhart, steve mcqueen, viola davis, widows

Steve McQueen has created masterful dramas about men and their torment. Gillian Flynn is notorious for her compelling thrillers about traumatized women. Together they’ve made a smart heist movie with a feminist twist. Last year, Widows, was one of the most intriguing films with and about women.

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COLD WAR – Review by Marietta Steinhart (Guest Post)

January 23, 2019December 29, 2019 awfj-admin 0 Comments cold war, joanna kulig, marietta steinhart, oscars, Pawel Pawlikovski, the female gaze

Four years after winning an Oscar for best-foreign-language film for Ida, author and director Pawel Pawlikowski has returned with three-time Oscar-nominated Cold War, a meticulously composed story of love shattered by the Iron Curtain, and temperaments. It will break your heart, but never mind: despair has never looked so gorgeous.

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SHOPLIFTERS – Review by Marietta Steinhart (Guest Post)

January 22, 2019December 29, 2019 awfj-admin 0 Comments Hirokazu Kore-eda, japanese films, marietta steinhart, oscars, sakura ando, shoplifters, the female gaze

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters is a tender, strangely powerful and sad exploration of what makes a real family and implies that we often find true compassion among the strangers we encounter in the world. The film won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, claimed the FIPRESCI Prize for Best Foreign Language Film at Palm Springs International Film Festival and is nominated for a best foreign-language film Oscar.