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by Rebecca Martin
March 18, 2024
Lizzie Borden’s films are coming to the Siskel Film Center this month! To celebrate her arrival in Chicago, and her upcoming program set to stream next month on the Criterion
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by Rebecca Martin
March 18, 2024
Cinema Femme had the opportunity to speak with actor/writer Jessica Sharples and producer/director Sam Miller about their short film “Hostile Exchange.” Support their project here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-femaleled-short-film-hostile-exchange FOR IMMEDIATE
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by Rebecca Martin
March 15, 2024
Stunt coordinating has been a part of filmmaking since the beginning, and it’s such an integral part of bringing magic to the screen. For example, I can’t help but think
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by Rebecca Martin
February 8, 2024
Like Jonathan Demme did seamlessly, respectively in “Rachel Getting Married,” Lila Avilés (“The Chambermaid”) immerses us in a specific time and space full of people that resemble a family, which
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by Rebecca Martin
January 31, 2024
25 features, 10 interviews, 12 reviews, and two profile pieces. That might not seem like a lot, but with a team of 4, that’s a lot! What I value the
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by Rebecca Martin
January 31, 2024
O’Sullivan and Thompson gently fold their story together, finding humor and heart at every turn, leading to the kind of ending that somehow inspired the film’s very first audience at Sundance to
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by Rebecca Martin
January 29, 2024
Haley Elizabeth Anderson’s feature debut, “Tendaberry,” moves you, not just on a visceral level, but a deeply human level. I felt the same way after I watched “All Dirt Roads
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by Rebecca Martin
January 27, 2024
I’ve been embarking on a new frontier in my self-journey. I’ve started to go through fertility treatments because my husband Matt and I want to try to have a biological
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by Rebecca Martin
January 26, 2024
When you watch “Handling the Undead” you have to deconstruct your way of viewing the film. The film involves dead people and it touches on tropes of zombie films, but
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by Rebecca Martin
January 24, 2024
“I hope people not only see, but also feel hopeful that this isn’t really the end, in the end, and that we are all just friends walking each other home.”
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by Rebecca Martin
January 24, 2024
As Chicago’s premier art house cinema, the Gene Siskel Film Center is proud to support Cinema Femme’s unique coverage of the Sundance Film Festival. We believe the film industry is
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by Rebecca Martin
January 22, 2024
The edge is where I come from. The edge is my home. Amy Liptrot, author of ‘The Outrun” As women, we are not perfect, just like we are imperfect as
