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Asian American, personal essay, reviews

7 min read

Celine Song’s “Past Lives” is a modern romance that is ageless

by Rebecca Martin

June 8, 2023

Filmmaker Celine Song had a unique moment when her childhood sweetheart and her husband met. This moment was very significant to her, and it became the seed of her film,

essay, Film Festivals, International Films, personal essay, reviews

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Dhaka International Film Festival 2023: Female Characters in the Modern Bengali Cinema

by Elena Rubashevskaja

February 14, 2023

The festival year started for me in a most unexpected way, on January 14, 2023, I landed in Bangladesh, a place I’d never been before and would not have normally

2022 Awards, 2022 Films, personal essay, reviews

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Answering the Call Amidst the Grief and Pain

by cinemafemme

January 18, 2023

Melissa Marquez is the recipient of our “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” submission contest. She was chosen for her unique and passionate perspective. We are also featuring runner up recipient Viridiana

"Black Panther" Essays, Interviews, Juneteenth, personal essay

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Look Back: Cinema Femme Voices: “Black Panther”

by Rebecca Martin

November 8, 2022

With the release of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” coming this Friday (11/11/22) we bring back snippets of our January 2019 Black Panther issue and our interview with Oscar-Winning Production Designer

Horror, personal essay, Sexual Assault Awareness

11 min read

Look back: A vintage that gets better with age: a celebration of ‘Jennifer’s Body’ 10 years later

by Rebecca Martin

October 14, 2022

Originally posted August 16, 2019. Google “Jennifer’s Body” and let the panning of 2009 begin, from the in–the–gutter critic reviews to the 44% Rotten Tomatoes score. Go on Letterboxd (a site for film geeks

Comedy, Comedy Essays, Cult Classic, personal essay

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Cult Classic Series: The Ambiguous Queerness of Female Friendship in Buddy Films

by Robyn Bacon

September 29, 2022

Cinema Femme will be bringing you essays written by women and non-binary people about films that are cult classics and how they are impacting our world today. Today we feature

Cult Classic, essay, Horror, personal essay, reviews

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Cult Classic series: Cronenberg’s “Crash” Under the Lens of Toxic Internet Culture

by Peyton Robinson

September 22, 2022

Cinema Femme will be bringing you essays written by women and non-binary people about films that are cult classics and how they are impacting our world today. Today we feature

"Black Panther" Essays, personal essay

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A Look Back: The Women of Wakanda

by Marjorie H. Morgan

July 26, 2022

The message of “Black Panther” is that the potential and influence of women must not be ignored or discounted. From the strategic actions of Nakia as an undercover spy and
Mental Health Awareness, personal essay

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Kelly Oxford’s feature debut “Pink Skies Ahead” changes the game for mental health representation onscreen

by Rebecca Martin

May 24, 2022

“Breakdown, breakthrough,” Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) says in Cameron Crowe’s film of the same name, in a very cliche way, in a very cookie cutter scenario. Jerry gets inspired to

Black History, Documentaries, Mental Health Awareness, Mother's Day, personal essay, Women's History Month

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Breaking through the cliché of Poly Styrene: An examination of Celeste Bell’s documentary on her mother

by Rebecca Martin

February 2, 2022

Punk, also called punk rock, is an aggressive form of rock music that coalesced into an international (though predominantly Anglo-American) movement in 1975–80. Often politicized and full of vital energy

Mental Health Awareness, Mental Health Awareness Month, personal essay

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Look back: Not just Gilda, but Rita too

by Rebecca Martin

May 1, 2021

“Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda . . . and woke up with me.” -Rita Hayworth The following personal essay was posted in November 2019. We’re bringing

Mother's Day, Now Playing, personal essay

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Julia Hart reinvents 1970s thriller genre with a female lead in “I’m Your Woman”

by Rebecca Martin

December 8, 2020

I burned it all up, I burned it up until nothing was left, but the fire. And then in Eddie came with the baby. Jean, “I’m Your Woman” Attending Sundance

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