Women directors are no longer a big deal, so take note of these four women-
made films worth seeing no matter who made them.
Over numerous unfiltered cigarettes (Israel TV would not have shown images of her smoking), Golda Meir talked frankly. The two younger male journalists assured her the footage would not be aired.
A New York Jewish film festival roundup.
I wonder: is a mass movement of women of all religious beliefs, colors, ages, sexuality and classes, standing up against our racist, misogynist administration being threatened by petty politics?
Much of Lanzmann’s work concentrates on men’s stories. Now women are getting the last words.
We poured off the bus wearing a growing number of political buttons and T-shirts. We were becoming an unrestrained female force.
“The Impure” (New York Jewish Film Festival Jan. 16) digs into Argentina’s subculture of Jewish prostitutes and pimps in the massive immigration from Eastern Europe starting in the 1880s.
The rest of the film world is just as much a male preserve as Hollywood.
“I am a Palestinian and I am a woman. I’m discriminated against as a Palestinian and I’m discriminated against as a woman.”
Two of the film’s “in betweens,” lawyer Laila and DJ Salma are part of the Tel Aviv partying, coke-snorting underground Palestinian club scene.
