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Bechdel Test Canon: Daisies

Movies post by Alyx Vesey on December 5, 2011 - 11:59am; tagged Czech New Wave, Daisies, hipster girls, Věra Chtytilová, whiteness.
We begin the second series with Věra Chtytilová’s Sedmikrásky (Daisies), which was released in the writer-director’s native country, Czechoslovakia, in 1966 and received an American release the following year. The 74-minute feature tells the story of two young women named Marie (Ivana Karbanová and Jitka Cerhová). Out of boredom and annoyance toward their bourgeois existence, they decide to wreak havoc in a magnificently hedonistic fashion. They entertain a few gentlemen, leaving them in a lurch once they tire of them. They cut up in a dance hall. They harass waiters. They break into a banquet hall presumably outfitted as a dinner for communist leaders, gorge on the decadent spread, and throw a food fight before the film concludes with them trapped under a giant chandelier.
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Dark of the Matinée: I Hope You're Happy // Melancholia

Movies post by Sara Reihani on November 18, 2011 - 1:54pm; tagged dark of the matinee, film, Lars Von Trier, Melancholia, movies.
Still from the movie Melancholia. Kirsten Dunst, a young blonde white woman, in a white wedding dress and veil, holding a bouquet of white flowers, floating down a river on her back, surrounded by green reeds and lily pads.
Since I saw Melancholia at Fantastic Fest 2011, I haven't been sure how to respond when people ask me if it's good. It feels inappropriate to summarize it in those terms: the single best word to describe it isn't "good" or "bad" but "uncomfortable." It's a full two hours but feels longer, full of headache-inducing hand-held shots and constantly shifting focus, but the most unsettling thing about it is how blatantly nihilistic it is.
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Bringing Up Baby: 1987's Baby Boom VS. 2010's Life as We Know It

Movies post by Katherine Don on November 4, 2011 - 2:13pm; tagged Baby Boom, Life as We Know It, Parenting, social commentary.
Movie poster for Life as We Know It. Josh Duhamel and a baby are both shirtless drinking out of bottles. Katherine Heigl is chasing after them.Welcome to the twenty-first century. Are either of these films accurate or comprehensive portrayals of their time? Not even remotely. But they reflect cultural attitudes surrounding women, motherhood, and work, and the putrefied trope of Heigl’s character didn’t exist in 1987. Heigl and Keaton’s characters are analogous as white-controlling-educated-women-who-have-careers-plus-family, and the evolution of this character is telling. Where Baby Boom gave hope, Life as We Know It brings despair.
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Pop Pedestal: Cleopatra Jones

Movies post by Nicole Morales on October 20, 2011 - 2:08pm; tagged 70s black action films, blaxploitation, Cleopatra Jones, Tamara Dobson.

Cleopatra Jones, 1973, movie poster

Welcome back to Pop Pedestal, the blog series about pop culture personalities we admire. Today’s tribute goes to Cleopatra "Cleo" Jones, the super sleek superwoman who defied the blaxploitation  genre of the early '70s. Move over Foxy. Cleo's in town.

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Spoiler Alert: Ides of March is About What Now?

Movies post by Kelsey Wallace on October 18, 2011 - 1:37pm; tagged Evan Rachel Wood, George Clooney, Ides of March, movies, ryan gosling.
This post contains massive spoilers for Ides of March. You've been warned.

Ryan Gosling and Evan Rachel Wood sitting in a car
This so should have been on the movie poster.
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Young Adult Trailer Released, Features "The Girl You Hated in High School"

Movies post by Kelsey Wallace on October 6, 2011 - 1:22pm; tagged bad teacher, Charlize Theron, movies, trailers, Young Adult.
You know how the past decade or so has brought us countless films with a male protagonist who is juvenile and irredeemable, and it's kind of a problem? Wouldn't it be so equally problematic edgy and trendy and subversive if filmmakers started casting WOMEN in those roles instead of men?! Well, it didn't work in Bad Teacher, so Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody are giving it a try with Young Adult:

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Bringing Up Baby: True Grit and the Unfortunate Spinsterhood Finale

Movies post by Katherine Don on October 6, 2011 - 12:11pm; tagged action movies, feminism on television.
Hailee Steinfeld, a white girl with brown hair, in True GritFilms with female leads sometimes end this way. Did she get married or not? Did she have babies or not? The framing makes it clear that the real question is: Does she have a happy ending or no?
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Dark of the Matinée: Digital Champion // Mamoru Hosoda

Movies post by Sara Reihani on August 26, 2011 - 11:13am; tagged animation, dark of the matinee, film, movies, summer, summer wars, the girl who leapt through time.

Unlike Miyazaki, Hosoda embraces our dependence on virtual worlds, but not naively. He's aware of its dangers and isn't above satirizing it; the resemblance of the OZ hub to Murakami's deranged pandas, combined with its toothy, walleyed grin, makes even the pre-Love Machine OZ appear fun, but slightly dangerous, and the entire Love Machine storyline is a cautionary tale against putting all of one's faith in online solutions. That combination of wariness and recognition of digital culture is something I don't think we would ever see from Miyazaki.
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We're All Mad Here: Sucker Punch Tackles Abuse In Asylums

Movies post by Anna_Palindrome on August 24, 2011 - 11:57am; tagged asylums, mental illness, movies, sucker punch, we're all mad here.
This post discusses abuse in asylums, including sexual assault. It discusses the history of lobotomies and describes (briefly) the procedure. It also contains spoilers for the movie Sucker Punch.

I went to see Sucker Punch expecting a light piece of fluff that involved conventionally attractive young women with swords fighting a dragon. It's a movie where one of the lines highlighted in the trailer is "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." I was prepared for a light popcorn-type film and showed up for a midnight screening with one of my friends, two martinis to the wind.

I was really not expecting a film that laid out how abusive asylums and long-term care centers can be—and often are. I was not expecting a film that laid out how asylums could be used to silence uppity women. And I was really not prepared for a film that showed bluntly and horrifyingly what lobotomies involved and how they completely destroyed people's personalities.

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Name That Trope: She's hot! She's cool! She's one of the guys!

Movies post by Kelsey Wallace on August 23, 2011 - 12:14pm; tagged Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, movies, Name That Trope, Olivia Munn, tv, Tyra Banks.
A few of us saw The Change-Up for the most recent Popaganda podcast (the things we'll do for you...) and one of the many things I was struck with during the movie (among an inexplicable plot, a million penis jokes, etc.) was the character of Sabrina, played by Olivia Wilde. Around the time she called her date out for ordering a bottle of wine (the nerve!) and ordered a manly scotch instead, I knew what we were in for. She's a conventionally hot and sexy legal aid who loves drinking, sports, and daring people to get tattoos: A version of a trope—a woman who likes "dude things" yet is still traditionally feminine—that we've all seen before in countless movies and TV shows.

screen shot of Olivia Wilde holding up a pair of baseball tickets
The dogs are hot and so am I! Baseball!

However, my scouring of TV Tropes for a name and a clever description yielded no results. Thus, it's time to Name That Trope!
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