The Art of Film Producing

Lynda Obst's Hollywood Survival Manual

"...she has been involved in the development of such films as Flashdance, Clue, Risky Business, After Hours, Lost in..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Film Review: Being Mary Tyler Moore

New documentary reminds us there was more than just The Flip

"...Moore, there's an intent to re-establish Moore as a feminist icon, a status that has become unfortunately diminished for..."

March 14, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Violation

Feminist horror stabs deep into the Jacobean Revenger

"...Violation, which plays this week as a SXSW Festival..."

March 19, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes

Biodoc of pioneering musician is best when she speaks for herself

"...The film is at its weakest when Catz introduces (and stars..."

March 19, 2021 Screens Post by Lina Fisher

SXSW Film Review: Daughters of the Sexual Revolution

Muddled bio of Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders’ leader

"...However, Shapiro’s film positions its subjects within an it-was-the-best-of-times-it-was-the-worst-of-times frame that’s never..."

March 12, 2018 SXSW Post by Beth Sullivan

SXSW Film Review: 'Veronica Mars'

Cult TV show transitions to film with all its charms intact

"...wealth and the cult of celebrity, and its feisty, feminist hero. But the stakes are much higher for fans..."

March 8, 2014 SXSW Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Film Review: 'Ukraine Is Not a Brothel'

Femen doc looks past the headlines

"...cultish reliance. And at the very heart of a feminist organization, you’ll find a patriarch...."

March 8, 2014 Screens Post by Brandon Watson

There Will Be Film

"...3) Persepolis This animated, feminist, coming-of-age comedy about the effect of Iran's Islamic revolution..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

"...eclectic collection of people to discuss Tyson and Tupac: Feminist hip-hop journalist Joan Morgan, Dr. Maya Angelou, the Rev...."

March 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

New Day Film

"...universities and other educational institutions and organizations," says Austin filmmaker and New Day Acquisitions Co-Chair Heather Courtney (Los Trabajadores,..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Screens Feature

SXSW Film Reviews

"...he's so gosh darn likable. Even the most intractable feminist will find a soft spot for this wily love..."

March 18, 2005 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

SXSW Film 04 Awards

The best of the Fest

"...Dykes, D: Mocha Jean Herrup EMERGING VISIONS The Naked Feminist D: Louisa Achille DOCUMENTARY FEATURE A League of Ordinary..."

March 19, 2004 Screens Feature

Obey Giantess: Mega Mural of Feminist Proportions Pops Up Downtown

Artists Sandra Chevrier and Shepard Fairey give Austin a 12-story tribute to the centenary of the 19th Amendment

"...4-11, did just that, offering a host of workshops, film screenings, panel discussions, and activations – including the collaboration..."

March 20, 2020 Arts Feature by Barbara Purcell

SXSW Film Review: Prevenge

Maternity can be murder

"...The British filmmaker and comedian's feature directorial debut (which opens in New..."

March 17, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

"...one without humor (Bronstein's character has a collage of feminist heroines over her bed, and the dialogue sets a..."

March 14, 2008 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Female Misbehavior

"...Misbehavior is a compilation of four short documentaries by feminist film director Monika Treut (Seduction: The Cruel Woman, Virgin..."

April 9, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Light It Up

Director Lizzie Borden revisits her incendiary 1983 feminist classic, Born in Flames, showing as part of the Austin Film Society's series "Dance, Girl, Dance: Women Directors of the 70s and 80s."

"...The incendiary Born in Flames is Lizzie Borden's signature film. Borden is best known for her critically and popularly..."

June 22, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Working Girls

What do the eight films in the Austin Film Society's latest free series "Dance, Girl, Dance: Women Directors of the 70s and 80s" have in common? They are all works by inherently feminist filmmakers, and the chronological order of the series tracks the growth of American feminist thought during these two decades.

"...The history of women in filmmaking has long been a history of outsider art. Even..."

May 18, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Me Myself I

"...the solicitous driver only to find … herself. Karmel's film never even attempts to explain the nature of the..."

May 5, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I Am a Sex Addict

If you leave the theatre with that awkward too-much-information feeling after peering into the director's self-exposed psyche, you will also remember his high-wire act that combines fact and fiction, drama and self-deprecating humor, honesty and self-delusion.

"...Linklater’s Waking Life, in which he delightfully discourses on film theory. If you do not, rest assured this filmmaker..."

June 23, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Revenge

Bloody vengeance fit for the #MeToo era.

"...debut feature from director and screenwriter Coralie Fargeat. Her film falls squarely within the “rape/revenge” genre, represented in the..."

May 11, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fat Girl

"...De Rienzo, Arsinée Khanjian and Albert Goldberg. Words like “feminist” and “provocative” are frequently bandied about when talking about..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott's March sisters remain resonant in a new season.

"...Wickes, Gabriel Byrne and Eric Stoltz. Using the term feminist in this day and age is surely grounds for..."

Dec. 23, 1994 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Quest for Camelot

"...distaff market with its central female protagonist and contemporary feminist overtones. Of course, it's only the contemporary layering of..."

May 15, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Female Perversions

"...is the most intelligent, entertaining, provocative, absorbing, and, yes, feminist movie to grace our theatres in quite some time...."

May 23, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mary Shelley

Biopic of Frankenstein's creator lacks spark.

"...was widely presumed to be the book’s author. The film Mary Shelley seeks to set the record straight...."

June 22, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mona Lisa Smile

The new Julia Roberts movie applies a retrofitted sense of feminism to the Great Housewife Debate of the Fifties.

"...Gay Harden and Juliet Stevenson. It’s curious that the film title references the most famously ambiguous facial expression in..."

Dec. 19, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Radical Itty Bitty Titties

IBTC@aGLIFF rulz!

"...mind. Also: Gaysplosion! Yesterday I saw Jamie Babbitt's new film Itty Bitty Titty Committee and boy did this feminist,..."

Oct. 3, 2007 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

Love Crimes

"...quite as spectacularly and as totally as it does. Feminist agendas and the unspooling of dominant ideology have always..."

Jan. 31, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Passion inflamed in this study of women repressed and resurgent

"...In Portrait of a Lady on Fire, French filmmaker Céline Sciamma gives the Gothic romance a feminist workout...."

Feb. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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