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NOW PLAYING by cnueva75Apr 8, 20185:03 pmApril 8, 2018
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The Judge dir. Erika Cohn

Erika Cohn’s latest documentary is a bitter reminder of how women in public office need to be constantly excellent, and not just merely good.

NOW PLAYING by cnueva75Mar 19, 20188:24 pmJune 21, 2020
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The Party dir. Sally Potter

A small bathroom in a London townhouse is the site of large domestic ruptures.

NOW PLAYING by cnueva75Jan 13, 20185:47 amJanuary 17, 2018
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Brown’s Canyon dir. John Helde

The wellness retreat becomes a grievance summit in John Helde’s latest.

NOW PLAYING by cnueva75Jan 11, 20189:48 amJanuary 14, 2018
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Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool dir. Paul McGuigan

It has been observed, quite often, that there are very few good roles for Hollywood actresses of a certain age, and whether we take the fictional or real actresses, this observation holds.

NOW PLAYING by cnueva75Jan 8, 20188:31 pm
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Take My Nose…Please! dir. Joan Kron

Being judged for your looks is no longer a punch line.

NOW PLAYING by cnueva75Sep 8, 20178:00 amJune 21, 2020
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The Unknown Girl dir. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

How responsible are we for our community? What are the limitations, the boundaries of helping others who are not our family or friends?

ACTORS by cnueva75Aug 2, 20174:43 pm
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Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017)

Merci, Jeanne! Jeanne Moreau: A Real Woman Modernity and the legacy of war in Elevator to the Gallows (1958) La Notte (1961)      

NOW PLAYING by cnueva75Aug 2, 201711:33 amAugust 2, 2017
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Landline dir. Gillian Robespierre

A well-crafted, perfectly-cast, subtle, and engaging portrait of a New York family going through some growing pains, Landline was a delight to watch. Robespierre and her team get the pertinent details of mid-nineties New York […]

NOW PLAYING by cnueva75Jul 28, 201712:00 pmJune 21, 2020
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The Midwife dir. Martin Provost

Claire Breton is surrounded by life. She is an old-school midwife, coaching women in the art of breathing, listening to their bodies, and making birth joyful. She owns a little patch of a vegetable garden […]

NOW PLAYING by cnueva75May 26, 201711:27 amMay 26, 2017
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Pendular dir. Julia Murat

I couldn’t help but be reminded of Sally Potter’s 1997 The Tango Lesson. A woman, an artist, starts from a blank canvas. There is an empty, large space of floor waiting to be filled with […]

NOW PLAYING by cnueva75May 22, 20174:47 pmJune 21, 2020
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After The Storm dir. Hirozaku Kore-eda

Kore-eda is very much a filmmaker of place; he has lived and known many of the cities and towns in which his films are set. We are thus treated to an insider’s view of a […]

NOW PLAYING by cnueva75Apr 17, 201710:18 pmApril 17, 2017
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The Spectrum of Womanhood in Everything Else and Future Perfect

In The Future Perfect, eighteen-year old  Xiaobin, recently immigrated to Buenos Aires, has her whole life ahead of her. Though she is in a foreign country and under financial and cultural obligation to her parents, […]

NOW PLAYING by cnueva75Apr 5, 20178:39 pm
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The World and Its Cinema: San Francisco International Film Festival 60

I’ve always appreciated the fact that this film festival, now celebrating its 60th year, has always been international in a well-curated and thoughtful way. Not that I haven’t enjoyed meeting filmmakers from previously un-represented countries […]

NOW PLAYING by cnueva75Mar 24, 20178:00 amJune 21, 2020
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Frantz dir. François Ozon

Frantz Hoffmeister, a soldier, fiancé, son, and friend, is dead and thus physically absent, but you know from the first five minutes of the film that he will continue to be unnervingly present. Like memories […]

NOW PLAYING by cnueva75Mar 15, 20178:00 amMarch 6, 2017
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CAAMFest 35: Bachelor Girls

The “Bachelor Girls” interviewed in Shikha Makan’s brisk documentary are professional women in their 20s and 30s, educated and gainfully employed in the large, cosmopolitan Indian city of Mumbai. For some landlords, these women would […]

NOW PLAYING by cnueva75Mar 10, 20178:00 amMarch 6, 2017
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CAAMFest 35: The Lockpicker

Canadian filmmaker Randall Lloyd Okita (featured at CAAMFest 34) is known and admired for his oblique yet powerful narratives, even in his more abstract, short works such as Machine with Wishbone (2008) and Portrait as […]

NOW PLAYING by cnueva75Mar 6, 20173:35 pmMarch 6, 2017
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CAAMFest 35: Leonine Films Picks

The intelligent, capable, and unmarried working women of Mumbai struggle to find decent housing in Bachelor Girls…all the world’s a Center Stage in this riveting collection of shorts (one of many in the festival)…LF favorite […]

NOW PLAYING by cnueva75Feb 3, 20178:00 amJune 21, 2020
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The Salesman dir. Asghar Farhadi

I was already tense during the opening titles of Asghar Farhadi’s latest, The Salesman. Having seen several of his films, I was prepared for something akin to a thriller, or even a pastoral murder mystery, […]

NOW PLAYING by cnueva75Feb 3, 20177:45 amFebruary 8, 2017
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Force of Nature: Tabaimo

In paying video homage to a museum’s collected works of Japanese masters, Tabaimo reminds us of how nature and landscape greatly influenced Japanese decorative art, and also reminds us of the power of time-based media […]

NOW PLAYING by cnueva75Aug 12, 20168:00 amAugust 2, 2017
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Women on Wall Street Take Charge

Money Monster (directed by Jodie Foster), is set in one of those shiny financial market TV shows full of exaggerated numbers and practically devoid of facts or pragmatic advice. Its king and money monster is Lee Gates, who […]

NOW PLAYING by cnueva75Jul 15, 20166:00 amJune 21, 2020
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Our Little Sister dir. Hirozaku Kore-eda

Sagami Bay, blue hydrangeas, pale-pink cherry blossoms, freshly-picked plums, freshly-caught seafood, torrential rain, and four very elegant and dignified sisters who are as tough as mountains. In Our Little Sister (from the novel Umimachi Diary), […]

NOW PLAYING by cnueva75Jun 21, 20162:44 pm
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Frameline 40: Reconciling the Past and the Future

The mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando was very much on my mind as I watched the wide variety of films at the 40th Frameline Film Festival. It seems to me as though […]

NOW PLAYING by cnueva75May 10, 20167:12 pm
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SFIFF59: A Case for Female Documentarians

SFIFF59 made a strong case for supporting the work of female documentarians. I have been thinking a lot recently about how female documentarians are good at effacing themselves for the service of the story, and […]

NOW PLAYING by cnueva75Jan 23, 201210:21 pmFebruary 1, 2017
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Sundance Film Festival 12: Corpo Celeste by Alice Rohrwacher

Rohrwacher’s sympathetic but clear-eyed treatment of Southern Italian Catholicism is one of the most wonderful and truthful films I have seen in a long time. It has the feel of a narrative film and the […]

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