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Our Movie Salon of the (perpetual) Spiritual Quest

Or, could some bit of Faith be learning to live with ambivalence? I admit it.  It is utterly near impossible to see any way through the faith debate these days.  Let alone keep faith – as in that Sixties phrase, a recognition of shared spirit, “keep the faith, man.” So of course, in the face of this utter [ READ MORE ]

Movie Salon – Paternity’s Burden of Perpetual Protection

This Movie Salon’s suggestion of films to watch for the upcoming Discourse Parlor: In a Better World, 2010.  Directed by Susanne Bier.  Written by Anders Thomas Jensen. The Lovely Bones, 2009. Directed by Peter Jackson.  Written by Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens. In this edition of the Salon we focus on two films which are, from the [ READ MORE ]

Movie Salon: The Fight for Women’s Promise

And why we can’t retreat, for the sake of our daughters, or our mothers either.   This Movie Salon’s suggestion of films to watch for the upcoming DiscourseParlor: Blue Valentine, 2010.  Directed by Derek Cianfrance written by Cianfrance, Cami Delavigne and Joey Curtis.  With Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams.  Revolutionary Road, 2008. Directed by Sam Mendes. Screenplay Justin Haythe  [ READ MORE ]

Movie Salon: Are Women Escaping?

This Movie Salon’s suggestion of films to watch: I Am Love, 2009.  Written and directed by Luca Guadagnino.  Starring Tilda Swinton. Leaving, 2009.  Written and directed by Catherine Corsini.  Starring Kristin Scott Thomas. The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, 2009.  Written and directed by Rebecca Miller.  Starring Robin Wright. Are Women Escaping?   I’ve pressed my [ READ MORE ]

Signs of Spring Movie Salon Potpourri

In which we continue our explorations of the unfolding Narrative Otherways by:  Hosting a continuation of our Parlor on the Nature of Love through a Dialogue on the film Closer.  Casting an eye back to push forward our quest for the persistently desired, it seems, Female Hero’s Journey in a second Dialogue on Winter’s Bone. Taking a wander [ READ MORE ]

Movie Salon: The Nature of Love in three films by Jane Campion

After all our exploration of the burnt to a crisp territories of loss and violence, of the cynical, desperate and trapped self endings so masterly expressed in the Male Narrative, I am more than ready to pack for our journey toward a Narrative Otherways.  With that adventure in mind the destination of our next Salon has been set [ READ MORE ]

Movie Salon: Are We Questing for a Female Hero’s Jouney?

Our primary focus this month will be on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, 2009, directed by Niels Arden Oplev, written by Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg off the novel by Stieg Larsson.  Watch the TRAILER. A story of a loved lost girl becomes a story of innumerable girls vanished from the face of our [ READ MORE ]

Movie Salon: Explorations at the End of the Male Narrative

So this month it seems the time’s come to address what the heck I mean by this term the Male Narrative and furthermore, what do I mean by saying we are at the end of it? My intention is to do this through three films that are to my mind masterful expressions of this notion.  It’s [ READ MORE ]

Movie Salon: Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker

This month’s Movie Salon suggestion is The Hurt Locker, 2008.  A contemporary war story directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal set in Iraq and following an elite Army bomb squad.  War stories.  Can we understand this?  That the gods have left us?  Our deities have ceded the field, whose whim we cited as reason for our blood lust, our [ READ MORE ]

Movie Salon: Susanne Bier’s After the Wedding

Welcome.  This weblog is brought to you by Women in Film Seattle.  I am Annie Grosshans, your Lookout and guide here.  The first Movie Salon suggestion is After the Wedding (“Efter Brylluppet”)  2006,  director/writer Susanne Bier, co-writer Anders Thomas Jensen.    See the TRAILER  Susanne Bier’s story is built on the characters of two men from opposite ends of [ READ MORE ]

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