What films by and about women are opening this week? From our Movie of the Week #Hilma to @TLWinTheatres and #RareObjects, there is plenty to choose from. Margaret Barton-Fumo reports: awfj.org/blog/2023/04/0…

No Pussyfooting episode 45 airs tonight at 8pm EST. All smooth music and downer pop! KPISS.FM

A great week for movies by/about women, including #DryGroundSeason, #JudyBlumeForever, #LittleRichardIAmEverything, #River, #OtherPeoplesChildren & #TrenqueLauquen! Margaret Barton-Fumo reports on what's opening: awfj.org/blog/2023/04/1… Check out the 🧵 ⬇️ for reviews on all 6!

“Margaret Barton-Fumo draws a comparison between film remakes and cover songs, which is really apt in this case: BREATHLESS (1983) feels more like a reinterpretation or ‘cover’ of BREATHLESS (1960) than any sort of substitute or replacement.”

Sign this petition in order to protect the Mütter Museum from being sanitized! Visiting the collection was a truly life-altering experience for me. Everyone—whether they're physically present or accessing its digital assets—should see the Mütter! change.org/p/protect-the-…

Head over to #AWFJ's Instagram to learn more about member Margaret Barton-Fumo! We asked Margaret to share her film passions with us...but which film did she say turned her into a critic? Head here to find out: instagram.com/p/CtQJroCN8zX/

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Heartbreaking news today. Ciao, my sweet Jane. You will always be remembered and I will never forget the times we shared. I will miss you.

No Pussyfooting episode 49 will be an all-krautrock episode, Monday at 8pm EST ⁦KPISS.FM⁩ instagram.com/p/CvnisMZOCki/…

Margaret Barton-Fumo (Margaret Barton-Fumo) reviews the late Paul Vecchiali’s The Strangler. The underseen 1970 giallo-like genre-bender with style to spare is now in U.S. theaters for the first time courtesy of Altered Innocence. bloodvine.com/the-strangler

No Pussyfooting episode 54, tonight at 8pm EST KPISS.FM

Damo impassioned generations of musicians, but most importantly, he was a kind and gentle soul. Here is when I was fortunate to meet him and to perform with him at a Jaki Liebezeit memorial concert in Cologne in 2018. Rest in peace, Damo. May your spirit keep on inspiring us.

"BAD COMPANY is good company. Go see it!," implored Richard Schickel for LIFE in 1972. Blu-ray, w/brand-new restoration, via the ocn, is up for preorder now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3ujj8sss Tom Ralston art, Scott Saslow design, @mangiotto commentary, Margaret Barton-Fumo essay.

"During a tenuous period of Japanese cinema, Sômai helped to usher in the wave of new independent cinema of the 2000s." Today in the Metrograph Journal: An essay on the late director Shinji Sômai's youthful exuberance by Margaret Barton-Fumo (Margaret Barton-Fumo). bit.ly/3Yro9nQ

Margaret Barton-Fumo (Margaret Barton-Fumo) reviews Damian McCarthy’s Oddity. His follow-up to 2020’s Caveat is “a classic whodunit couched in a haunted-house story with a touch of Gothic” that has consistently unnerving atmosphere and plenty of effective scares. bloodvine.com/oddity

"Trouncing through her surroundings like a melancholic Zazie dans le Métro (1960), [Tabata] animates the film w/ her precocious energy." -Margaret Barton-Fumo on MOVING, which opens Film at Lincoln Center Friday. Metrograph's Somai x 3 starts Fri w/ TYPHOON CLUB & P.P. RIDER. metrograph.com/shinji-somai-m…

We have limited stock on the first pressing of the BAD COMPANY Standard Edition Blu-ray. This edition does not come with a slipcover, but it does come with the booklet, which includes a new essay by Margaret Barton-Fumo. Booklets won't be re-printed. 👇 funcityeditions.com/shop/p/badcomp…

"BAD COMPANY arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Fun City Editions w/the excellent a/v presentation & the loving extras that we’ve come to expect from the label. Bonuses include trailers, radio spots, a critic’s commentary & a booklet containing a thoughtful essay by Margaret Barton-Fumo."

We have 5 more copies of the PARTY GIRL Blu-ray, including the booklet w/rarely-seen images from director Daisy Von Scherler-Mayer's personal archive and an essay by Margaret Barton-Fumo. Subsequent pressings do not contain the booklet. 👉 funcityeditions.com/shop/p/party-g…