Sarah Jacobson was a director that explored a lot of feminist themes in a less narrative driven style. Think of Richard Linklater’s less story focused work. While making a splash and generating interest in the 1990s, she died young due to cancer. Her body of work only includes one feature length film and a handful…
A Question of Silence Blu-ray Review
New to blu comes hot-button feminist firebrand A Question of Silence from director Marleen Gorris courtesy of Cult Epics. Watch as a primal scream from a first time director becomes a latter day classic! Three women from three different social classes (a middle income housewife [Edda Barends], a lower income diner waitress [Nelly Frijda] and…
Cinematic Sorceress: The Films of Nina Menkes [Blu-ray Review]
On February 7, 2003, Arbelos releases a two-disc set collecting six of indie director Nina Menkes’ pioneering feminist films of slow cinema along with a bountiful host of extras. Does this set deliver the goods or will it leave you wandering the desert in search of meaning in a desolate world of apathy and sin?…