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A Taste of Flesh (Doris Wishman | 1967}

A NYC apartment belonging to two lesbian women and their new “house guest” is overtaken by two assassins bent on killing a visiting foreign prime minister. If you know anything about assassinations you know that a lot of waiting is involved, luckily the women use the time wisely to shower off.

#a taste of flesh #doris wishman

She-Man: A Story of Fixation (Bob Clark | 1967)

In case you were wondering, yes, that Bob Clark. The amazing thing about this story is, well, pretty much everything about it. High camp? Nay, super-dee-duper-ne-plus-ultra-High-Camp-Zilla! A transgender woman named Dominita who is never without her riding crop even when conducting stock transactions- are you listening Wall Street? --A secret gay cabal/kidnapping ring? This story brings up the important, not often touched upon, problem of transgender women in the armed forces: how can you fire a weapon when you’ve got boobs and mascara to worry about? Or better yet, why would you want to fire a weapon when you’ve got boobs and mascara to worry about. I never thought that being gay was a more insidious threat to our armed forces than communism. So grateful that the truth is out.

#She-man a story of fixation #bob clark

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John Wayne and Claire Trevor on the set of John Ford’s first sound Western, STAGECOACH. Orson Welles privately watched this film about 40 times while he was making CITIZEN KANE https://t.co/KibcjE1zjd

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Supergirls Do General Hospital (1984)

“The Ultimate in Physical Therapy“

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L'anglaise et le duc (AKA The Lady and the Duke) | Eric Rohmer | 2001

Lucy Russell, Léonard Cobiant

Lady Snowblood (Toshiya Fujita | 1973)

Not only is this a subversive take on gender politics but also an proto-deconstructionist narrative. Who is the speaker? The writer of the novels in the film? The manga on which it is based? The director? And who is the intended audience? Religious zealots and fascists? Japanese teenagers? American housewives? Like Prince Harry’s rebuff of his father in Henry IV, Lady Snowblood seems to efface all previous notions of authority, on nearly every level.

#lady snowblood #toshiya fujita #meiko kaji

Goodnight Mommy (Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz | 2014)

How is it that once we realize the face in the mirror is the face that mommy loves,it’s all over. Our image of self and our actual self, the reality is that we cannon, yet must always live in-between, the two: reality and fantasy: the face in the mirror and the face we hope that mother loves. And our “self” is always silent, because our ego is always speaking for us. Which is real? Which is not?

#goodnight mommy

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Stan Brakhage, January 14, 1933 – March 9, 2003.

THE BODY BENEATH (Andy Milligan | 1970)

I’ve had a revelation this afternoon - no, it did not involve psychedelic mushrooms and youporn in 3D- but rather, I watched a film by a director whom I’d always assumed to be a total and complete hack. It was his hackness that I thought was the drawing point. Yes I’ve seen VAPORS his first film and it is beautiful, but I’d also seen GURU THE MAD MONK and THE RATS ARE COMING! THE WEREWOLVES ARE HERE! Those films are bad enough to make Hershell Gordon Lewis look like Tarkovsky, but today I watched THE BODY BENEATH and I was truly astonished. Is the sound awful? Yes. Diesel truck idling for 10 minutes? Check. But as far as story The Body Beneath really has something, that is to say it evokes a sense of dread that is as effective as anything by Ulmer. Perhaps if anybody watched Andy Milligan’s films they might make that comparison. He interprets Hitchcock brilliantly but not the Hitchcock we are familiar with but instead the Hitchcock that is tapped out on the walls of a men’s prison at night, some mad prisoner reading Zizek in Hungarian and ranting about the perfection of symptom and how the letter is always twice delivered.

#andy milligan #the body beneath