Touching on diverse communities and histories, these documentaries and feature films tell stories of women around the world. Kurt Ganapathy picks the highlights.

!Women Art Revolution • (USA) Drawing from more than 400 hours of footage, director Lynn Hershmann-Leeson celebrates, critiques and charts the evolving presence of women in art over the last 40 years. November 25

Feet Unbound • (Singapore) A journalist from Beijing follows the route of the Red Army’s Long March, telling the tales of the women soldiers who lived through it and viewing it from the perspective of a modern Chinese woman. December 2

Koundi and the National Thursday • (Cameroon) A village in Cameroon, which produces timber, decides to move into farming cocoa. Every Thursday, they meet to work on the cocoa field together. December 3

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles • (Belgium) In this 1975 film, widely regarded as a landmark among feminist film theorists, we follow the daily routine of a widow as she cooks, cleans, takes care of her son and prostitutes herself. December 10

The Beaches of Agnes • (France) The only female director of the French New Wave movement, Agnès Varda, tells her own life story. December 16

Attenberg • (Greece) A young woman confused by intimacy tends to her terminally ill father while learning more about sex from her more experienced best friend in this quirky coming-of-age film. December 17

All screenings for Women in Film are at 7:30pm, Moving Image Gallery.

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The Thing

Editor's Rating: 
3
Average: 3 (1 vote)

The problem with Hollywood horror movies these days is that they simply don’t scare us. Short of stealing from Japan, Thailand and South Korea or using surveillance camera footage of people moving with demonic speed, they make us laugh more often than lurch in our seats. Similarly, alien invasion flicks of late have been appalling, largely because of how silly the aliens look. Finally, this prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 film of the same name gets it right, delivering an unexpected bit of terror.

Opening Date: 
Mon, 2011-11-21
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Kurt Ganapathy