Two Ends of Reality: Martha P. Nochimson on “Quantum Screens: Nonlinear Universes in Film and Television”
As I spent twelve hours in the hospital last week, waiting for my dad to recover from his long-belated knee replacement surgery, I found a liberating mode of escapism in devouring author and professor Martha P. Nochimson’s latest marvelous book, Quantum Screens: Nonlinear Universes in Film and Television. On the basis of its delicious theories […]
Cinema Femme Short Film Festival Returns to the Music Box Theatre, July 17–21, 2025
🎬 Cinema Femme Short Film Festival Returns to the Music Box Theatre, July 17–21, 2025 Opening Night Reception, Dynamic Panels, Celebrated Shorts, and Awards Presentation Among the Highlights CHICAGO, IL — June 20, 2025 — Cinema Femme is proud to announce the full lineup for the 2025 Cinema Femme Short Film Festival, returning July 17–21 […]
He Believed in Me: Sabrina S. Sutherland on Her Favorite Person, David Lynch
It’s difficult to put into words the gratitude I have for Sabrina S. Sutherland. The collaborations she forged with filmmaker David Lynch, particularly over the last decade, have transformed my life in ways I never could have anticipated. Sutherland executive produced Lynch’s 18-part masterpiece, 2017’s “Twin Peaks: The Return”—or as she prefers to call it, […]
An Editor’s Dream: Lori Eschler and Scott Ryan on “Always Music in the Air: The Sounds of Twin Peaks”
In April of 2022, I attended the most euphoric moviegoing marathon of my life when curator Daniel Knox hosted “David Lynch: A Complete Retrospective—The Return” at Chicago’s own Club Silencio, the Music Box Theatre. Scott Ryan, the managing editor of The Blue Rose Magazine, moderated all of the Q&As, and I subsequently interviewed him twice […]
Beauty in Vulnerability: Richard Green and Claire Coulson-Ollivier on “I Know Catherine, the Log Lady”
This was one of two Log Lady quotes I incorporated into my speech while officiating my brother-in-law and fellow “Twin Peaks” fan Joe’s wedding last year in Washington state. It was “Twin Peaks” that brought my wife—Cinema Femme founder Rebecca Martin Fagerholm—and I together, and has helped preserve our sanity whenever the news cycle is […]
Femme Film Friday: “Being Maria” and “I Know Catherine, the Log Lady”
BEING MARIA – directed by Jessica Palud “I want to be free as an actor to explore where a scene can go, but if it’s going to be a fight scene or a sex scene, you’ve got to stop the fudging because you can’t just see where it goes.”—Greta Gerwig This truth memorably articulated by […]