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Jennifer's Body 2009
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A rape-revenge story in which the (barely metaphorical) rape gives its victim superpowers that she chooses to nourish only with the blood of men who want her body.* Men she effortlessly seduces with transparent lies and come-ons, which they all swallow because they want them to be true — and because they've been taught that girls who show off their bodies are sluts, and can be had by any man who wants them.
A classic superhero tale…
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Margarita y el lobo 1969
"Margarita y el lobo is one of Cecilia Bartolomé's most surprising works," says historian Luis Parés. "Making a film like this in the 1960s seems almost like a terrorist act to me. It criticizes everything: the church, piety, the family, sexuality in couples, etc." [x]
Cecilia Bartolomé's final student film at la Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía de Madrid (from which only three women, total, graduated in the the nearly twenty-five years of its existence), Margarita y el lobo runs only…
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The Frogmen 1951
Given that it was made with the cooperation of the US Navy and is set during WWII, The Frogmen is surprisingly inoffensive, leavening the machismo of its heroes with a shocking amount of emotion and fallibility. In addition, the title characters — members of one of the Navy's Underwater Demolition Team, which were eventually replaced by SEALs— are almost to a person at least bi-curious, waxing rhapsodic about the kind blue eyes, strong jaw, and manliness of their deceased former commander,…
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Vera, a Cruel Tale 1974
The debut feature by Josefina Molina — the first ever female graduate from la Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía de Madrid (she was a classmate of Cecilia Bartolomé's) — Vera, a Cruel Tale turns out to be a reworking of an hour-long adaption of the same story made for TV a few years earlier. Both versions were co-written by Molina and Salvador Maldonado (the frequently used pseudonym of Lola Salvador Maldonado), and both build considerably upon Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's original…
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Pather Panchali 1955
Women are alone.
Sarbajaya is alone. She has time only to prepare food and care for her family. Sometimes, she can eat, but we never see her sleep — not once. There is no Sarbajaya, apart from her responsibilities.
Her husband gives their children money because he loves to see them joyful; Sarbajaya is miserly so that she can give their children the food they need to stay alive, if only just. She is the source of discipline in their…
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Double Indemnity 1944
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I love this movie beyond measure. I love its chokingly lyrical (and so very Raymond Chandler), inch perfect screenplay. I love its dark humor, and the absurdity of glamorous Phyllis and anxious Walter skulking around a grocery store so aggressively sterile it seems to come from inside the monolith in 2001. I love the long takes, and the way the austerity of Billy Wilder's shooting style contrasts so perfectly with the labyrinthine language and tale it's recording. But, most of…
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