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Curtsies and Hand Grenades: December 2014

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Curtsies and Hand Grenades. Saturday, December 27, 2014. The Female Filmmaker Project. Which is kind of incredible, and you should follow along as she chronicles that project. Over on Curtsies and Hand Grenades you'll be getting a kind of version of that once a week, and I hope you enjoy. These are the films I have lined up for the year. I'm very excited. If you have suggestions of movies to watch drop me a line down in the comments. Hugs and Love. I Could Never Be Your Woman (Amy Heckerling, 2007).

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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: 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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This Cinematic Life: Tootsie (1982)

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Monday, May 11, 2015. Or whatever the current flavor of the month on cable is. Perhaps the fact that it's a comedy is keeping people from taking it seriously? But then try imagining this film without comedy. That might just be too depressing to handle. Dorothy Michaels for President! Posted by This Cinematic Life. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Promote Your Page Too. The Art of the Title. You Must Remember This. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.

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This Cinematic Life: This Cinematic Show - Mad Men

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Saturday, May 16, 2015. This Cinematic Show - Mad Men. I know that this is a cinema blog, but I wanted to take this opportunity to mark the passing of what I personally feel is the most cinematic television program of all time - Mad Men. As more and more established filmmakers are making the move to serialized television, lots of think pieces are being written about the shrinking gulf between movies and TV. Most of these pieces cite either the effects and battle scenes from Game of Thrones. A lot of show...

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This Cinematic Life: Friday Quote: The Prestige

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Friday, May 15, 2015. Friday Quote: The Prestige. The audience knows the truth: the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you. then you got to see something really special.". Posted by This Cinematic Life. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Promote Your Page Too. The Art of the Title. You Must Remember This. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.

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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: 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.