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Directed by: Yvonne Rainer
Stars: Dempster Leech, Shirley Soffer, John Erdman, Renfren Neff, Sarah Soffer
Rainer's landmark film is a meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliche and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger.
Directed by: Mark Mori
Stars: Bettie Page, Hugh Hefner, Olivia de Berardinis, Dita Von Teese, Tricia Helfer, Laetitia Casta, Mamie Van Doren, Rebecca Romijn, Stacy Burke, Shalom Harlow, Joey…
With a natural photogenic poise and a vivaciously innocent risqué flair, there never was a pinup model like Bettie Page. Through Page's own words and interviews with her closest associates, we explore her extraordinary life growing up in a troubled childhood until she found a wild career as…
Directed by: Tim Burstall
Stars: Jack Thompson, Jacki Weaver, Wendy Hughes, Arthur Dignam, Belinda Giblin, Helen Morse, Sandy Gore
Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English. Petersen is odd man out at the uni. He receives extracurricular help from his stuffy professor’s beautiful lecturer wife in her office. Their get-togethers there are quite rootine. The professor is also seeing one of…
Directed by: Gerard Damiano
Stars: Tallie Cochrane, Mona Liza, Miky DeMaris, Carol Barr, Mary Philips, Marty Adler, Rita Vance, Al Goldstein, Kim Pope, Suzzan Landau
While sex is the raison d'etre for this film, there are extremely valuable segments featuring Mary Philips of N.O.W and gay activist/magazine publisher Arthur Irving. Mary's comments especially are perceptive and indisputable, still relevant 40 years later. But it is pornography and obscenity that dominate Gerard Damiano's consciousness,…
Directed by: Lee Frost
Stars: Sondra Currie, Tony Young, Phil Hoover, Elizabeth Stuart, Jeannie Bell, Laurie Rose, Eileen Saki, Susie Ewing
A lady cop infiltrates an all-female criminal gang. "Policewomen" is an action/adventure film that is worth seeing, especially if you are a fan of women's martial arts. Sondra Currie is the main female action heroine whose knowledge of karate is put to use in a prison, in a…
Directed by: Ula Stöckl
Stars: Liane Hielscher, Kristine de Loup, Jürgen Arndt, Elke Kummer, Heidi Stroh
Ula Stöckl is a pioneer of women’s film. At a time when in the old Republic there was neither a women’s movement nor women’s film she made the film The Cat Has Nine Lives (1968). This was her graduation film from the Institute for Film at the School…
Directed by: Bryan Forbes
Stars: Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman, Tina Louise, Carol Eve Rossen, Carole Mallory, Judith Baldwin, Barbara Rucker
The Stepford Wives is about a small suburb where the women happily go about their housework - cleaning, doing laundry, and cooking gourmet meals - to please their husbands. Unfortunately, Bobbie and Joanna discover that the village's wives have been replaced with robots, and Joanna's husband wants in…
Directed by: Virginie Despentes, Coralie
Stars: Raffaëla Anderson, Karen Lancaume, Céline Beugnot
Manu and Nadine lose their last tenuous relationship with main-stream society when Manu gets raped and Nadine sees her only friend being shot. After a chance encounter, they embark on an explosive journey of sex and murder. Perhaps as a revenge against men, perhaps as a revolt against…
Directed by: Ulrike Ottinger
Stars: Magdalena Montezuma, Delphine Seyrig, Albert Heins
In the form of a "small theater of the world", a history of the world from its beginnings to our day, including the errors, the incompetence, the thirst for power, the fear, the madness, the cruelty and the commonplace, in a story of five episodes.
Directed by: Nouchka van Brakel
Stars: Monique van de Ven, Maria Schneider, Marijke Merckens
Eve lives with her husband Ad and two children somewhere in Amsterdam. Eve seems reasonably happy although she sometimes has the feeling that there's something missing in her life. Her husband, thinking Eve is depressed, sends her on a holiday to France with her girlfriend Sonja. In the…
Directed by: Vera Chytilová
Stars: Jitka Novákova, Karel Novak and Jan Schmid
In the garden of a pension, Eva and her husband Josef are enjoying a siesta. Here, they meet with the lonesome, mysterious-looking Robert. During play, a key falls out of Robert's pocket. The curious Eva picks it up and sets off on an expedition. In Robert's room, she…
Directed by: Jane Arden
Stars: Sheila Allen, Jane Arden, Jack Bond
There is no easy way to explain this movie as anyone who will watch this movie will have a entirely different experience with a complete different interpretation. There is a dialogue between the doctor and a man who asks her about how to define schizophrenia and she answers,…
Directed by: Dan Golden
Stars: Adrienne Barbeau, Maria Ford, Kevin Alber
In 19th Century France, a young Bram Stoker is captured by a man-hating, all-female cult of thong bikini wearers. Aided by flesh-eating rats, the warrior women raid the lairs of evil men and punish them. Our hero must decide between his wish to escape the dangerous cult and…
Directed by: Tom Huckabee, Kent Smith
Stars: Bill Paxton, Barry Wooller, David Guthrie
Militant feminist scientists brainwash research subject to assassinate the Welsh Minister of vice activity. Meanwhile World War III is being fought and the USA has been invaded.
Directed by: Marco Ferreri
Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Ornella Muti, Michel Piccoli
Gerard and his 9-month-old son have been left by his wife for feminist reasons. The custody of his son is being threatened by his next romance. La dernière femme is a film which will easily please people of varied tastes. It can be liked by feminists,admirers of actors…
Stars: Lena Nyman , Sven Wollter, Vilgot Sjöman
Directing: Vilgot Sjöman Writing: Vilgot Sjöman Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. She experiments with relationships, political activism, and meditation. Meanwhile, the actors, director and crew are…
Directed by: Monika Treut
Actors: Ina Blum, Marcelo Uriona, Gad Klein I’m always leery of films that purport to ‘stand for something’ or ‘give voice to an invisible population,’ because they often neglect aspects of moviemaking that I find valuable like ‘story’ or ‘cohesion.’ Underground filmmaker Monika Treut runs back and forth…
Directed by: Nelly Kaplan
Stars: Bernadette Lafont, Georges Géret, Henry Czarniak, Claire Maurier
Marie (Bernadette Lafont from Prisonnieres and Gwendoline) is struggling to use her feminine charms to gain. She woos a few highly respected citizens. But local moralists sought exile Marie from the city. Soon, the woman had a plan how to make their tormentors pay for all the humiliation.…
