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hi if you are looking for a less ahistorical view of women who’ve made film, I may have a book for you. . .

also a list with 400+ films on it boxd.it/cPIFo

also a piece about Arzner and the “female gaze” indiewire.com/features/comme…

In this week’s Directed By Women Viewing Guide: a literary French romance, a doc about a cult musician, an ensemble independent dramedy, a Spanish rom com, an Italian war-set drama, a fantastical short film, and a doc about kids living in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon.

Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/you-cant-fre…

THE SECRET AGENT’s Wagner Moura has won Best Actor at #Cannes2025.

very moving scene from The Brutalist

Overall it was an incredibly strong Cannes that constantly had me saying: “Oh. Movies can do that???”

I hope Harris Dickinson does more directing. He has a keen eye and an assured sense of framing and pacing.

Y’all we’re cooked

Gonna keep saying that THE WATERMELON WOMAN should’ve been waaayyyyyy higher on Sight & Sound. It’s doing so much with form and history, and gender, racial, and sexual politics.

Ophuls heroically opened the door, Lanzmann dashed furiously through it; Ophuls was a liberal humanist, Lanzmann a philosophical idealist; Ophuls' aesthetic is straightforwardly journalistic, Lanzmann's is radically creative.

Yuzo Kayama, Hideko Takamine and Mikio Naruse on the set of YEARNING.

Susan Brownmiller blamed Emmett Till for his own lynching just because he whistled near a white woman. She claimed the Scottsboro case vilified WW who lied & falsely accused Black teens of rape.Pls stop uplifting WW’s legacies at the expense of Black & brown ppl’s lives & history

Posting this week’s Directed By Women Viewing Guide early. Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/my-body-is-a…

My Dad died today after a very quick battle with colon cancer. He was surrounded by family and went peacefully in his sleep.

I wrote about watching movies with my Dad. Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/gerald-gerry…

A really beautiful and tender tribute by Marya to her dad that just made me bawl.