Not everything is fleeting.
Weekly Directed By Women Viewing Guide
This week I am recommending a searing Georgian drama, Sapphopalooza at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago, the Sarah Maldoror retrospective at MoMA, a trailblazing supernatural romantic drama from Mati Diop, a postmodern short film by Sally Potter, a trio of films directed by Kathryn Bigelow, and a new streaming service dedicated to Palestinian cinema.
But first, I am truly heartbroken that I can no longer attend the 35mm screening of Mira Nair’s masterwork The Namesake at The Brattle at in Boston on May 10th at 10am ET, but so grateful that the theater made my dream of bringing it back to the big screen come true. Although I will no longer be conducting the conversation, Nair herself will still be at the screening for a Q&A afterwards, and you can still pick up copies of my book Cinema Her Way at the theater. I promise I will sign them next time I am in Boston! Here is a little bit from our discussion in the book about this tremendous film:
Cinema, I must say is such a powerful medium, to pick up on that sense of being in several places at once. To look out of your window on Riverside Drive, and instead of the Hudson River, it could be Lake Victoria with all the bridges they always make me feel that way. I used it in The Namesake for that reason. I love bridges because some of them are so similar to each other, be it in Calcutta or Queensboro, they evoke each other in my view. That also gives me a way to tell the story.
A few more Cinema Her Way screenings will still be taking place in the next few weeks including Sally Potter’s The Tango Lesson on 35mm at Doc Films in Chicago on May 17th, Susan Seidelman’s Making Mr. Right on 35mm at the Trylon Cinema in Minneapolis on May 22nd, and Lizzie Borden’s Born In Flames in 35mm at the Cleveland Cinematheque in Cleveland on June 5th.
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