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

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 an essay by contributor Robyn Bacon (The Light Leaks, Film Daze). For women, close female friendships are usually the first type of relationship — outside […]
Cult Classic series: Cronenberg’s “Crash” Under the Lens of Toxic Internet Culture

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 an essay by Peyton Robinson (RogerEbert.com, JumpCutOnline, and One Perfect Shot). Niche is a delicate, almost laughable word to use to describe David Cronenberg’s 1996 […]
A cult classic is in our midst with Jennifer Reeder’s teen noir ‘Knives and Skin’

“Knives and Skin” follows the investigation of a young girl’s disappearance in a rural Midwest town. The coming-of-age film has been described as a mix of Lynchian thriller and high school musical.
