In Ma Ma, the lead character, Magda, finds out she has advanced stage breast cancer. Magda, played by Penélope Cruz, is surrounded by males as she goes through chemotherapy, recovery, and illness again, and we […]
Tag: 2015
Taxi dir. Jafar Panahi
“Relax, he’s one of us,” says Omid, the entrepreneurial DVD bootlegger, after the customer realizes that Omid’s taxi driver is the famous Iranian director Jafar Panahi. Omid reassures his customer that though Mr. Panahi is […]
The Assassin dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
The poor women of Weibo can’t catch a break. Huji, Governor Tian’s favorite concubine, gets pregnant and becomes the target of a sorcerer’s campaign headed by her chief rival, the governor’s wife Lady Tian. Lady […]
Mill Valley Film Festival 38: Leonine Films Picks
MVFF 38 celebrates this year the women of film with many of its highlighted events and films: Suffragette, starring Carey Mulligan; spotlights on and tributes to Sarah Silverman, Brie Larson, Catherine Hardwicke; and, a very […]
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution dir. Stanley Nelson
A short but very telling footage of J.Edgar Hoover being interviewed with regard to the Black Panthers captures him saying, “justice is merely incidental to law and order.” This attitude, which arguably prevailed among many […]
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