Category: Feminist

• Smithereens (1982)

  September 9, 2019

  1980s, Drama, Feminist, Independent Film, New York, Punk

  I’d always wanted to see Smithereens (1982), directed by Susan Seidelman, a low budget New York cult movie about punk/DIY subcultures. The headstrong protagonist Wren (Susan Berman) is brilliantly introduced stealing a pair of zebra patterned shades on the subway and handing out photocopied flyers of her face with the cut-out text “Who is this?”… Read.

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  Set It Off (1996)

  September 9, 2019

  1990s, Action, Crime, Feminist, Los Angeles

  Going through a run of watching classic heist movies and figured it was time to Set It Off (1996). Following a quartet of friends in Los Angeles – all working as janitors with little income and different problems – they decide to rob banks to get out of their collective situation. What surprised me a… Read.

• One Sings, The Other Doesn’t (1977)

  September 9, 2019

  1970s, Arthouse Cinema, Feminist, French Cinema

  When Agnès Varda passed away, shamefully I’d not seen any of her films. Seeking to correct such an oversight, I sought out One Sings, The Other Doesn’t (1977; L’une chante, l’autre pas), a narrative that follows the friendship between two women, which comes to symbolise feminist movements of the 60s and 70s. As teenagers, Pauline… Read.