Film & Documentary

October 6, 2022 • View in browser

Stop Fetishizing Marilyn Monroe’s Trauma

The problem with Andrew Dominik’s biopic Blonde is its assumption that Monroe’s victimization was the most fascinating thing about her. | Zeba Blay

Many filmmakers, particularly male filmmakers, don’t know what to do with the heights of feminine emotion — despair, longing, rage, madness. Often, rather than truly engage with these emotions they romanticize, aestheticize, sensationalize, and fetishize — in Blonde, the depictions of Monroe’s pain are always framed as spectacle. 

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New Emmett Till Film Moves and Rouses NYC Students

The student screening of Till emphasized an important aim of the film: to educate young people about the fierce love and activism of Mamie Till-Mobley, which played no small part in igniting the Civil Rights Movement. | Jasmine Liu

My Imaginary Country Is a Witness to Chile’s Past and Future

Patricio Guzmán combines reflection on the past, observation of the present, and hope for the future into an expansive vision of all the ideas he’s explored in his work. | Dan Schindel