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This has just jumped to the top of my movies-to-see list. In “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” a ferocious, unsentimental, often brilliantly directed film about a young woman who helps a friend secure an abortion, the camera doesn’t follow the action, it expresses consciousness itself. This consciousness — alert to the world and [...]
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Teen pregnancy will also restore your virginity and pay off your credit card debt
I still haven’t seen Juno, although I really want to. A whole lot of feminist bloggers have criticized its message, but Susie Bright’s take is my favorite so far. Head over there and read it. Anti-choice bloggers are calling these movies “gems” and saying that they reinforce a culture of life. I’m sure these films [...]
...read moreDamn Funny Women! (part 2)
I’m splitting my last post up into two sections, because it was too long, and the second half isn’t about the BBC’s horrible “science reporting” anyway. It’s about the related subject of whether women are allowed to be funny. So what is up with humor being characterized as inherently “aggressive?” Everyone seems to take this [...]
...read moreWhy strip? Because it’s good for your blog!
OK, I will probably go see Juno and I’ll probably like it. The title character is apparently one of the smartest, funniest, pluckiest female protagonists in a while: a 16-year-old who’s dealing with an unplanned pregnancy, initially goes to have an abortion, then ends up deciding to carry the pregnancy to term, with a nice [...]
...read moreI Leave New York and They Will Come
I’m shamelessly publicizing a really cool film festival that I cannot attend (tears…everywhere…literally) because…I live in Cairo now. But if I were in New York (man, oh man, if were in New York), and if you’re reading this and YOU are in New York you should go check out the Other Israel Film Festival playing [...]
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Enjoy this scene from The Warriors. This is the big fight scene in what is ostensibly the Union Square station, but what is actually the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station in Brooklyn. Times have changed. I’m in both of those stations regularly, and damned if I can’t find a public bathroom, much less one with multiple stalls and [...]
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