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Erin Brown and Eric Trommater continue their month long look at women behind the camera. This time it's director Lina Wermüller who, despite her name, is an Italian, and her 1975 black comedy "Seven Beauties." One of many films Wertmüller made with leading man Giancarlo Giannini, the film puts its hero, Pasqualino, through the wringer, including a long stay in Concentration Camp during The Second World War.

After a loving parody of the film's opening montage (and the repeated refrain of Oh Yeah!) Erin and Eric discussed what it was that made Wertmüller's work so attractive to male film critics in the middle 1970's but left so many (although not all) of their feminist cohorts more than a bit cold.

The episode features a clip from Martin Scorsese on Wertmüller. Stick around for the Easter Egg at the end of the episode featuring a clip from the late 'Macho Man' Randy Savage.

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Eric Trommater, Erin Brown and Sila Blume discuss Chantel Ackerman's 1975 film "Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles." Named the Best Film of All Time in 2022 by Sight and Sound Magazine's poll of filmmakers, critics and influencers. The movie is a slow, methodical, look at three days in the life of a housewife played by Delphine Seyrig.

We also took the opportunity to make our own top ten lists of the best movies ever made, just in case Sight & Sound ever calls us. Not holding our breath on that.

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A post script to our "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" episode. Nicole De Meneses, Jennifer A. Trujillo and Laura Petrie talk about all things Queer Cinema and share some of the exciting films they've seen, recently, on and off the LGBTQIA+ Film Festival Circuit.

Recommended films include Nicole's own film "Dead in Love" (now streaming on Amazon Prime), "Twinless," "Splitsville," "Straight Up," "Gondola" "Near Dark," "Interview with a Vampire (TV Series)," "Bullet Proof: A Lesbian's Guide to Surviving the Plot," "Love Mr, Bait Me: The Power of Queer Representation," "1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture," "Mama Bears," "I Am Not Alone, Anymore," "On Swift Horses," "Honey Don't," "Sally," "The Cat-Sitter," "Old Lesbians," "Outliers and Outlaws," and "Safety State."

Nicole De Meneses is a writer-director-producer and runs Dark Rainbow Films. 

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Jennifer A. Trujillo  runs the Gilbert Baker film festival, showcasing LGBTQIA+ narrative films, shorts and documentaries. 

https://gilbertbakerfilmfestival.lgbt

Laura Petrie runs The Cinema Systers Film Festival. The only all-lesbian film festival in America. 

https://cinemasysters.com/

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Director Céline Sciamma's 18th century sapphic love story can be enjoyed simply for the beauty of it's images, the great performances by Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel and Luàna Bajrami, or as an all too human tale of love and loss. It was also seen as a great step forward in queer representation on screen and the ability of openly gay women to tell their own stories. 

The normal panel of Eric Trommater, Sila Blume and Erin Brown were augmented this week by four diverse voices within the queer women's film world.

Nicole De Meneses is a writer-director-producer and runs Dark Rainbow Films. 

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Jennifer A. Trujillo  runs the Gilbert Baker film festival, showcasing LGBTQIA+ narrative films, shorts and documentaries. 

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Laura Petrie runs The Cinema Systers Film Festival. The only all-lesbian film festival in America. 

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krissy mahan is a working class filmmaker whose work uses humor to explore contemporary issues such as accessibility, gender expression and classism through short films and documentaries.

https://www.dykeumentary.com/

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Discussion this week includes: asking why no women directors were in any of our top ten films of all time lists, what does and doesn't qualify as a vampire film, time as a character in Jeanne Dielman and a lot more. Enjoy. Just like street drugs, the first one is free.

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Yassi Sofi and Eric Trommater.

"Some men think the Earth is round, others think it flat; it is a matter capable of question. But if it is flat, will the King's command make it round? And if it is round, will the King's command flatten it? No, I will not sign." Henry VIII scraps the Catholic Church in order divorce his wife and marry Anne Boleyn. In the process Thomas More loses his head but doesn't go down without a fight.

Directed by: Fred Zimmerman. Starring: Paul Scofield as Thomas More, John Hurt as Richard Rich, Robert Shaw as Henry VIII and Orson Welles as Cardinal Wolsey.

With Eric Trommater and Yassi Soufi.

**Originally Recorded Nov. 9th 2023 on X- Spaces**

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Erin Brown and Eric Trommater continue their look at Queerness in Cinema with Rose Troche's 1998 comedy "Bedrooms and Hallways."

The film stars: Kevin McKidd, Hugo Weaving, James Purefoy, Tom Hollander, Christopher Fulford, Julie Graham, Con O'Neill (ticking Erin's OFMD box), Paul Higgins, Jennifer Ehle, Harriet Walter and Simon Callow.

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Special guest host Nicole de Meneses a writer, director, and founder of Dark Rainbow Films, an independent production company specializing in bold, unapologetic LGBTQ+ stories through a genre lens.

She chose Ariane Louis-Seize's "Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant)," from Quebec, Canada for Eric Trommater, Sila Blume and Erin Brown to discuss.

Erin also talks about her new tattoo (see episode artwork).

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We round off our trilogy of Italian comedies with Erin Brown and Eric Trommater' s discussion of Marco Bellochio's 1967 film "China is Near," focusing on class struggle within the Italian Socialist party.

With cinematography Tonino Delli Colli, editing by Roberto Perpignani, and music by Ennio Morricone, it also serves as an early look at some of the film industry's great craftsman who would shape the next 50 years of international cinema.

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Eric Trommater, Sila Blume and Erin Brown discuss commedia all’italiana and Mario Monicelli's 1963 film "The Organizer." The film stars Marcello Mastroianni as a High School teacher turned labor organizer in Turin at the end of the 19th century. With a screenplay by Age & Scarpelli and cinematography by Giuseppe Rotunno the film should have been a classic in both Italian Comedy and Neo-Realism but instead was almost forgotten until a restored version appeared in 2012. Music https://youtu.be/pVsTh2gg3aE?si=ggOIE2GA7CT1i2gn https://youtu.be/pq70CXoPb9k?si=kKx1CD38RPV7n4w2 https://youtu.be/3JmFa2Q40lg?si=ti06r-P5ojyQQ7U5

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