18 1/2 director Dan Mirvish takes a comic look at Nixon, intrigue & Wonder Bread
Interview with filmmaker Dan Mirvish about 18 1/2, casting Bruce Campbell as Nixon, and what bread has to do with it all.
GUEST POST: Brian Whisenant, LGBTQ Programmer for Oxford Film Festival, Talks About Film Festival Life and the Fest’s 19th Year
“…And to the LGBTQ community of Oxford and beyond, I hope that I might have had a small part in helping you feel seen. Cinema absolutely has the power to do that.”
Movies on (pre)Menopause
And now it’s all clear. The pandemic was no help. Mourning the loss of my parents, one in death and one in illness, was certainly a factor in my emotional state. But menopause stole my stories.
Elif Akarsu Polat and Cigdem Bozali’s FATED HEARTS guilty pleasure rom com evolves into something deeper
We wanted to make up a relationship between two souls who connect each other from their hearts. And we think that true love is always innocent and always finds its own way no matter if it is between two men or women.
Women Texas Film Festival’s Justina Walford sees a benefit in film festivals going virtual that is very real
What I love about these films is that there are women of all ages watching these who have always settled for a protagonist kind of like them. And that is the great challenge for most of us women as we grew up with male protagonists, white female protagonsts, cis-hetero protagonists forcing us to fit our color, our identity, our queerness into those mainstream places. Nothing makes me feel better than hearing someone say, “Finally, I see me on that screen.”
Azul Lombardia’s DOBERMAN rotates around a world of male absence
Along with the rising tension, the film seems in its core a feminist exploration where men are merely mentioned plot points, things to be missed, and the women move the story embracing their aloneness in vibrant, diverse ways. As Lombardia says in her interview here “Like planets in the solar system, these seeming divergent characters’ worlds rotate around the same type of male absence.”