A film by Julie Reichert
In an April 1st article in the New York Times Book Review*, Meg Wolitzer discusses the struggle of women writers to escape the “Women’s Fiction” tag, which tends to marginalize their work and keep them away from serious literary consideration – okay for a book club, but not for that big literary prize. The article [...]
Life after Cinequest… On the movie front, I’ve gotten some requests to apply to film festivals elsewhere, but my policy for the time being is to pull back on that unless it’s somewhere I really want to go. Seems like further festival activity (unless it’s something big) is not likely to help distribution, and that’s [...]
Back from the road – showing Warrior Woman at the Cinequest Film Festival, and speaking to students and screening the film at two Midwest universities through the Show Me Justice Film Festival Showcase. Cinequest is held in San Jose, California, a city with great film venues, restaurants, bars, hotels, and a couple of wonderful museums, [...]
I have been slacking off in my Women’s Films project. I have three DVD’s sitting around waiting to be watched – Fellini’s “La Strada,” Kelly Reichardt’s “Meek’s Cutoff,” and Calli Khouri’s “Thelma and Louise.” I either “don’t have time,” or I’m reading a book instead. This is a little puzzling, since I’m fully capable of [...]
We have our screening dates and times for Cinequest: Saturday, March 3, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, March 4, 1:45 p.m. Tuesday, March 6, 11:30 a.m. San Jose, California. We’ll be screening at a theater called Cinema 12. My friend, Jan, who lives in Santa Cruz and will be coming to the premiere with me, is asking [...]
So I sent around some questions to about a dozen women friends: 1) What are some movies you’ve enjoyed over the years with interesting women characters and/or stories about women? 2) What are the kinds of women’s stories or characters you’d like to see on screen but never do? Got some great responses, referring to [...]
January 1. What will the year bring? Two things I’d like: have fun at Cinequest and get a fabulous distribution deal. There’s not much to do in either regard at the moment. By the end of this month, we should know our festival screening days/times/locations. At that point, we can gear up the social networking [...]
Traffic in L.A. is twenty years worse than it was when I lived there, and it was bad enough then. The beach is as beautiful as ever, neighborhoods are rising, falling, shifting, there’s a wonderful art show now called Pacific Standard Time which honors California artists through the decades at museums and galleries all over [...]
Not doing too much except filling out festival applications and going to the post office. Did create the dialogue list, which was tedious on the one hand – paying close attention to every adlib, laugh, and cough – but interesting, too. You think the actors are saying the dialogue as written, but often they’re not. [...]