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February 27, 2023

March Programming on MUBI

Includes Andrea Riseborough in Please Baby Please, new restorations of feminist film pioneer Nina Menkes, and indie maverick Eugene Kotlyarenko
EXCLUSIVELY ON MUBI

Phantom Cinema: The Films of Nina Menkes
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A pioneer of feminist cinema, a visionary artist, and one of the great American independent filmmakers, there’s no shortage of superlatives to describe the one and only Nina Menkes. This month, MUBI presents a six-film retrospective highlighting essential works from her forty year career, presented in brand new restorations. Included here are underseen gems like her groundbreaking portrait exploring the inner life of a prostitute imprisoned for killing her pimp, Magdalena Viraga, her hallucinatory underground classic, Queen of Diamonds, her awe inducing masterpiece, The Bloody Child, and more, which, viewed together, help solidify her place as one of the great cinematic radicals  of our time. 

The Great Sadness of Zohara (Nina Menkes, 1983) – March 2
Magdalena Viraga (Nina Menkes, 1986) – March 6
Queen of Diamonds (Nina Menkes, 1991) – March 9
The Bloody Child (Nina Menkes, 1996) – March 16
Phantom Love (Nina Menkes, 2007) – March 22
Dissolution (Nina Menkes, 2012) – March 28

Jonathan Rosenbaum on THE BLOODY CHILD + More Menkes films

MENKES FILMS NOW AVAILABLE

On the occasion of the release of the BLU RAY Box set of Menkes films by Arbelos, and the month-long MUBI retrospective, Jonathan Rosenbaum calls the work “A MUST SEE!”

Read his article here:

Arresting Images [THE BLOODY CHILD + More] | Jonathan Rosenbaum

We are also grateful for this amazing write up from

MUBI.COM on Menkes:

“A pioneer of feminist cinema, a visionary artist, and one of the great American independent filmmakers, there’s no shortage of superlatives to describe the one and only Nina Menkes. This month, MUBI presents a six-film retrospective highlighting essential works from her forty year career, presented in brand new restorations. Included here are underseen gems like her groundbreaking portrait exploring the inner life of a prostitute imprisoned for killing her pimp, Magdalena Viraga, her hallucinatory underground classic, Queen of Diamonds, her awe inducing masterpiece, The Bloody Child, and more, which, viewed together, help solidify her place as one of the great cinematic radicals  of our time”.

The Great Sadness of Zohara (Nina Menkes, 1983) – March 2
Magdalena Viraga (Nina Menkes, 1986) – March 6
Queen of Diamonds (Nina Menkes, 1991) – March 9
The Bloody Child (Nina Menkes, 1996) – March 16
Phantom Love (Nina Menkes, 2007) – March 22
Dissolution (Nina Menkes, 2010) – March 28

 

Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Film Industry

December 28, 2022

Pleased to be named in the 2022 Association of Women Film Journalists’

Outstanding Achievements by a Woman in the Film Industry!

* Nina Menkes and Maria Giese for making Brainwashed, analyzing and illustrating the misogynistic representation of women in Hollywood movies.

* Viola Davis for getting The Woman King made as her lifetime passion project and creating opportunities for other women creatives.

* Domee Shi for being the first woman to direct a film for Pixar and for becoming Pixar’s VP of Creative.

* Jacqueline Stewart for ongoing advocacy of the underrepresented and becoming president of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

* Michelle Yeoh – lifetime achievement award.

TEN BEST LISTS AND MORE AWARDS

December 27, 2022

Brainwashed has been listed on numerous

TEN BEST OF 2022 LISTS INCLUDING:

FILM COMMENT

ROGER EBERT

ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

IMDB

SCREEN SLATE

PINNLAND EMPIRE

Our Awards include:

SOFEE SEAL of FEMALE EMPOWERMENT -CRITICS CHOICE ASSOCIATION AWARDS

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT -ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS AWARDS

BEST OF FESTS- IDFA

BEST OF FEST- ALEXANDRIA FILM FESTIVAL

Nomination-OUTSTANDING SCORE by SHARON FARBER

Society of Composers and Lyricists

Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian: BRAINWASHED “Fierce and Focused”

October 16, 2022

Here is what Peter Bradshaw wrote in The Guardian today “ … a fierce and focused polemic reviving the subject of the “male gaze” for the #MeToo era…. Menkes shows us that the way the camera looks at women, and everything else, is not a transparent, value-free business. On the contrary: with men so overwhelmingly in charge, it is an activity of coercion and imposition, determined by gender politics. And sexuality as it appears on screen is not the natural, unmediated free expression of equal pleasure, but deeply embedded in male power relations……‘Brainwashed’ is a bracing blast of critical rigour.”   Oct 15, 2022

 

NEW ‘BRAINWASHED’ TRAILER!- In theaters Oct 21st

October 5, 2022




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