Editor’s Picks: Top 25 Films of 2022
As a movie lover, I can’t help connecting the meaning in my life to what I’m seeing on the screen. Sometimes films expand my meaning, and sometimes they confirm it. That mirror reflection is what draws me to certain films and is what motivates which films I put in my top list of the year. […]
Cinema Femme’s 225 Essential Films to see directed by women and non-binary people: Part Three (1970 – 2022) “The Anti-Hero”
The list has been generated by Cinema Femme contributors, and the titles are listed chronologically on our Letterboxd HQ account. All of these films are directed by women and non-binary people. For Part 3, we highlight films where the leading character fits elements of “the anti-hero” (a central character in a story, movie, or drama […]
Dina Amer takes us on a transformative experience in “You Resemble Me,” now playing in select theaters
I was very fortunate to interview “recovering journalist” and producer (“The Square”) Dina Amer about her feature directorial debut “You Resemble Me,” inspired by a story she first got wrong. The story is about a Muslim woman in France named Hasna who got mixed up in an extremist organization that she tried to escape. Hasna […]