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For filmmaker Alex Sichel, best known for 1997’s All Over Me, the obvious response was to create a film about it. A Woman Like Me, directed by Sichel and Elizabeth Giamatti, is a hybrid documentary that includes scenes of Alex’s illness and exploration of various treatments, along with a fictional narrative that parallels her own story.
Feb 4, 2016 · The co-directors of “A Woman Like Me,” Alex Sichel and Elizabeth Giamatti, consider the roles played by temperament, spirituality and art as two vigorous women attempt to reconcile themselves to a terminal prognosis. The film portrays Ms. Sichel confronting metastatic breast cancer by making two movies.
Alex Sichel worked in the Star studio. Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters.
Mar 12, 2015 · Alex Sichel was both the co-director and subject of “A Woman Like Me,” a devastatingly humane exploration of terminal illness.In it, Sichel creates a fictional character based on herself ...
Aug 26, 2019 · Ironically, director Alex Sichel, her screenwriting sister Sylvia, and producer Dolly Hall had this exact thought in the waning years of Bikini Kill’s existence in the ’90s. They were inspired by the Riot Grrrl movement, where they were on the fringe—not quite young enough to submerge themselves in the raucous, rebellious scene, but all ...
English. Box office. $150,646 (Domestic) All Over Me is a 1997 American teen drama film directed by Alex Sichel and written by her sister, Sylvia Sichel. Alex Sichel received a grant from the Princess Grace Foundation to make a film about the riot grrrl music scene and then asked her sister to collaborate with her.
A Woman Like Me interweaves the real story of director Alex Sichel with the fictional story of Anna (played by Lili Taylor), who tries to find the glass half full when faced with the same diagnosis of breast cancer. When you're stuck between a rock and a hard place, can your imagination get you out? Rentals include 30 days to start watching ...
