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May 11, 2017 · He won the Genie Award in 2006 for his debut film "La Vie secrète des gens heureux" ("The Secret Life of Happy People") (also nominated the same year for Best Achievement in Direction and Best Original Screenplay).He then went on to direct five seasons of the critically acclaimed cult TV Series "Tout sur moi", for which he won the Gémeaux ...
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Evie Michaels, played by Rita Wilson (seasons 2-6), Marnie's mother. [35] Sandy, played by Donald Glover (season 2), a Black Republican who Hannah briefly dates. [36] Booth Johnathan, played by Jorma Taccone (seasons 1-2), an avant-garde artist who leads Marnie on romantically after they meet at an art gallery.
The following is a list of characters that appeared in 2017, by order of first appearance. All characters are introduced by the soap's executive producer, Lucy Addario. The 30th season of Home and Away began airing from 30 January 2017. Riley Hawkins was introduced during the following episode.
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The underground film making movement of the late 1970s through early 1980s in New York City’s Lower East Side was a scene that embraced the DIY punk-spirit. The term “No-Wave” stems from the experimental art music of the ‘70s (think bands like Sonic Youth and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks). The guerilla films of the time period were just as avant-gar...
Vivienne Dick
Vivienne Dick is an Irish feminist experimental and documentary filmmaker who’s early films helped define what was ‘No Wave’. Dick grew up in Ireland and attended college there in the 1960s, then moved to the United States in the 1970s. Living in New York, she produced a series of seminal Super8 short films that featured iconic sites such as Coney Island, the Statue of Liberty, and the World Trade Center. Dick’s newest film, New York Our Time, revisits the era with unseen Super 8 footage and...
Guerillère Talks
Synopsis:Guérillère Talks, comprising seven rolls of Super 8 film, is a series of portraits of women, all of whom are associated with the No Wave music and art scene. The film features Beate Nilsen, Ikue Mori, Lydia Lunch, Pat Place, Adele Bertei, and Anya Phillips. In Guérillère Talks the filmmaker’s presence is felt through the expressive camera movements which contribute an energy and intensity to this exploration into notions of identity, as performers perform themselves. Watch it Here
Beauty Becomes the Beast
Synopsis:Beauty Becomes the Beast describes a random access world mediated by TV images and shards of popular culture. The film features a powerful performance by Lydia Lunch regressing from adulthood to childhood, hinting at a sexually abusive past. It concerns itself with the position of woman as subject and the way women experience patriarchal law and the heterosexual order. Watch it Here
Bette Gordon
BETTE GORDON moved to New York from the Midwest in the early ’80s. She quickly became a trailblazer in American indie film making. Gordon’s films are notable for their bold themes of sexuality and womanhood. Some of her films are now included in permanent collections in museums, including both the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Directed by Bette Gordon, with a screenplay by Kathy Acker from a story by Gordon. This marked her debut as a feature film director. According to film site MUBI“Ingeniously inverting Taxi Driver, it’s a brilliant story of a woman trying to find meaning (and a livelihood) in a lonely life in a grimy city. One of the best evocations of New York put to film.” Synopsis: Christine, a bright and unassuming young woman, takes a job selling tickets at a porno theater near Times Square. Instead of dis...
Empty Suitcases
Synopsis:The story of a woman who commutes between New York and Chicago, between a lover and a job. Betrayed by the man and laid off by the university where she teaches, the heroine becomes aware of her alienation as she becomes involved in terrorist activity. An experimental film about the experience and representation of women, using different narrative methods.
Nan Goldin
NAN GOLDIN is a photographer known for her autobiography-esque photographs of herself and those around her. The intimate and candid portraits especially capture the LGBTQ+ community and addiction. Her photographs overlapped with the scene and people. She was documenting this time period and she was even in No Wave films. You can see her photographs in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the Cent...
The Ballad Of Sexual Dependency
A collection of almost 700 photographs that captures Goldin’s own experiences around Boston, New York, Berlin, and beyond in the late 1970s and 1980s, set to a reminiscent soundtrack.
Susan Seidelman
SUSAN SEIDELMAN is a film director, producer and writer. Born in Philadelphia, Seidelman was raised in the city’s suburbs and went on to study fashion design at Drexel University. After realizing that she didn’t want to spend time behind a sewing machine, she shifted career directions towards her love of film. Seidelman enrolled in New York University’s film program in 1974. After graduating, she did freelance editing work and assisted on television commercials while attempting to raise funds...
Smithereens
Synopsis:Daring and quirky teen Wren trades New Jersey for New York City, where she hopes to join what’s left of the punk rock culture. She spends time hanging out with Paul, another young city transplant, but he’s too safe for Wren’s tastes, which run to narcissistic rockers. She finds one of these in Eric (Richard Hell), who’s about to cut a record in Los Angeles. Before long, Wren is planning to accompany Eric when he heads west, but it’s soon clear she’s put trust in the wrong person. Wat...
Desperately Seeking Susan
Synopsis: New Jersey housewife Roberta Glass spices up her boring life by reading personal ads, especially a series of them being placed by a mysterious denizen of New York City named Susan (Madonna). When one of Susan’s ads proposes a rendezvous with her suitor at Battery Park, Roberta secretly tags along, which leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself. Watch it on HBO MAX, Amazon, or Apple
Lizzie Borden
LIZZIE BORDEN was born in Detroit, Michigan. After receiving a BFA in art history at Wellesley College, she moved to New York, where she wrote for Artforummagazine and began experimenting with film. Her work takes on a feminist and political approach, investigating race, class, power, and capitalism — all from a female perspective.
Born in Flames
Synopsis: This pseudo-documentary, science-fiction film is set ten years after the most peaceful revolution in United States history. It presents a dystopia in which the issues of many groups – minorities, liberals, gay rights organizations, feminists – are dealt with by the government. Watch it on Apple or Amazon
Working Girls
Synopsis: College graduate Molly, trying to bankroll her own business, works as a high-priced New York City escort. As a lesbian, she’s able to keep her emotional distance from the clients, who range from cynically exploitative to desperately needy. But her open ambition to rise above her current station rubs many of her coworkers the wrong way, especially the combative, street-smart Dawn and the escort service’s disdainful madam, Lucy.
Lydia Lunch
LYDIA LUNCH did it all and still does. The singer, poet, writer, and actress’ career took off with the No Wave scene in the 1970s, predominantly as the singer and guitarist of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks as well as being in many films of the era. Later on her collaboration with Sonic Youthcalled “Death Valley ’69” was named one of “The 50 Most Evil Songs Ever” by Kerrang!. Most recently she was the subject of a documentary by Beth B (see below)
Black Box
Synopsis:An innocent youth is abducted and dragged down into a dystopian nightmare where teenage Lydia Lunch throws him into the Black Box. Watch it Here
Vortex (1981) TRAILER
Synopsis:A film noirish thriller featuring frequent collaborator Lydia Lunch as a detective who becomes immersed in corporate chicanery and the exploitation of politicians by companies soliciting defense contracts.
13. First Blood. It’s easy to forget given that it’s the role that made Sylvester Stallone into a muscled action star, but Rambo wasn’t originally an over-the-top, adrenaline-fuelled series about one man's love of guns. First Blood didn’t even have the Vietnam vet’s name in the title.
The duo have recently bought Rosa Vertov online, where they’ve reposted a series of video compilations made up of rare clips of female-fronted 1980s post punk and no wave bands. Drawing on European and American obscurities, with the exception of a few ever-green favourites (The Waitresses, Young Marble Giants) we can safely say we’ve heard ...
Jan 14, 2008 · Among those attending the festival were Roy Trakin of * New York Rocker, * John Rockwell of * The New York Times * , Robert Christgau of * The * * Village Voice * , and most significantly, Brian Eno.
