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Autour de Jeanne Dielman 1975
Remarkable making-of documentary for JEANNE DIELMAN...; like the film it covers, this is a series of long takes covering the miserable minutiae of filmmaking. At times, like when Delphine Seyrig is demanding more of the 24-year-old Akerman, there is palpable drama; but my favorite moments were the team working through the physical practicalities of the scenes, as well as various crew members offering their own lived-in opinions about how to make meat loaf or how to make a bed. Akerman was involved in the edit + release of this film in the early 2000s; that unique distance - and stylistic consistency - make this indispensable.
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Old Boyfriends 1979
Prior to a screening of this at UCLA, author Maya Montañez Smukler (who has a new book, LIBERATING HOLLYWOOD, about women filmmakers in the 1970s) offered the unbelievable stat that in the entire decade only sixteen women directed a feature film. That's as stark a fact about the dearth of female filmmakers I think I've ever heard.
There are more "facts" about women filmmakers in the opening credits of OLD BOYFRIENDS, too. Joan Tewkesbury only, I dunno, wrote the single-best…
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The Leisure Class 2015
I loved Project Greenlight this year, in many of the same ways I wrote about in my ME AND EARL review a few days ago: as much as I disliked Jason Mann As Presented On Project Greenlight, as a sometime filmmaker myself I saw him going through the exact struggles I have faced. As the show wore on, these were less moments like "There's not enough money for film" etc., but the deeper ones. The moment on the show that…
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