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#DanSays ~ If a man needs a kayak and a burlap sack to get off it would be in the room from the first time you have sex. Women never ask for what they want or bring what they want. Greta Gerwig just asked Billy Crudup for fantasy role play. He asked if he could rather just be himself. (Thankfully Gerwig said No). That was one hell of an important moment in film right there.  Owning your sexuality, being naughty, "I figured out how to be looked at by men, how to make men feel excited and uncomfortable." #ParaphrasingGenius Greta Gerwig

#WomenDoingTheWhineyVoice on IMDB http://www.imdb.com/list/ls027574004 Please add your contributions in the comments below.

If we keep punishing the sexual assaulters - now not for their power-mongering pussy-grabbing dick-exhibiting rape-adjacent behaviour --- but for their apologies --- (and yes, apologies are not hollow if they are backed by a change of behaviour, a true understanding, a demonstration of amends) - then I think that's problematic. I was raised to unconditionally accept a concrete apology. That it's ungracious to not accept an apology. And as a feminist I think it is strategically problematic to keep beating a person with their hands up. I would feel like the cops leaning over Rodney King. Of course, the minute Louis CK whips his dick out again, he's dead to me. I am not the girl to hang around for the second apology. Not #MeToo

Night Must Fall (1964) Because clones, drones, and automobiles are missing. Everyone I know refuses to watch movies made before 2000. I've collected movies way back to the 40s. And I love them. You definitely can't watch them with a cell phone in front of your face. Don't get me wrong, I love new movies too. Many. I'm not too fond of the repetitive scores of many new movies. Do they pay musicians by the note! And the endless fight and chase scenes, they're all the same, just in one movie the guy hits up, in another movie he hits down. Snore. I do look down at my cellphone during these sorts of time-wasters. CGI makes up for it. If you look down at your cellphone while watching Albert Finney arrive at the mansion in Night Must Fall (1964) you'll miss the little over-excited jig he does at the gardner and all the increasing tell-tale signs of his intentions. And when would you see a post-2000 film where a young man so ominously wraps an old woman around...

🍒 Extraordinary film about the ordinariness of war. Structured like a disaster movie with no cliffhangers, it undermines your every expectation of when to put your fingers in your ears. Disaster movies also show you a bit of relationship leg here and a bit of relationship leg there, in this case the camaraderie of men servicing a war. A Perfect Day takes you round the side of the horror, round the side of the explosives, round the side of the mass graves. It focuses on 'the other stuff' of war. Geniusly done. And, despite there being two women in the convoy, overnighting in the wilderness, the movie makers couldn't rustle up a scene where two named women talk to each other about something other than a man. Bechdel-fail. IMDB A Perfect Day (2015) Actors: Benicio Del Toro, Tim Robbins Director: Fernando León de Aranoa

🍒 Yes, it’s beautiful. Yes, the 3D was done well. Yes, it’s worth seeing, especially for the threesome - I’ve not seen anything like that on film before. But… meh. Story is kinda thin. The meta narratives are emaciated. There are some things to be said about the sexism of the film. Female replicants.  2049 - Joi (home entertainment and cook), Luv (librarian and killing machine). 2019 - Pris (prostitute and gymnast), Zhora (sex performer with animals), Rachael (secretary and mother) Extended death scenes.  The deaths of the female replicants take many many seconds. The hologram, Joi, is erased and spends many seconds crying out for K at the window of his spinner crash site. Luv is drowned at length, almost erotic asphyxiation snuff-like by K in the womb-ish transport vehicle. Pris is shot by Deckard and has an epileptic seizure-like unreal writhing tongue-protruding death. Zhora is shot by Deckard and crashes through several, several many fashion-store windows in her se...

[ Transvestite - Someone who likes to dress up in clothes of the opposite gender. The intention is to 'pass', to remain inconspicuous. Trans  - Someone who has been born into a body that doesn't reflect their inside gender. The intention is to disrupt binary ideas of gender and/or to change to the other gender and 'pass'. Passing is not a bad thing, necessarily. Some people don't want to draw attention to themselves, don't want conflict, don't want to be an activist every day. Drag Queens - Someone who performs the opposite gender. It's fun, it's sassy, it's political, it's ironic, it's challenging. It's a fun way to do politics. Of course, within any of these groups, individuals may vary.] So Drag Queens are a protest-solidarity-defiant-awakening performance of the thing straight men fear the most about homosexuality - a woman that comes onto them who is not even trying to pass, not even trying to conform to the femininity ...

🍒 Withnail & I (1987), and Moonstruck (1987) are beloved because they instruct me to be in their mood. And their moods are intense.

🍒 #DumpTrump #Feminism ~ We might have to enslave some of the Americans too. But nah. Not Trump and his supporters. I wouldn't want them even as slaves. Yucky. If IMDB had fractions, it would be a single fraction off. Fantabulous. IMDB Big Little Lies (2017)  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3920596 Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman Creator: David E. Kelley

🍒 I vote we enslave the British and make them produce mini-serieses and leave all those other little fiddlies they are busy with. Use a little military intervention to focus their attentions where they are needed. Who's with me! IMDB And Then There Were None (2015)  Director: George Pollock Actors: Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton

I met my match re Violence. I am inured, usually. Stephen King's story of a man stranded on a tiny desert island is one of my favorites, and Misery. But don't weave the two together and make the woman the story's focus through no fault of her own... yes, King blames her, but he doesn't understand Stockholm Syndrome, The Woman's Version. And I had to watch, to the last moment, such #Truth in relationships on film is compulsive watching. And compulsory for #Feminism. IMDB Gerald's Game (2017)  Actors: Carla Gugino, Carel Struycken Director: Mike Flanagan

🍒 No Country for Old Men (2007). This is a have-to-have. Relax, it's not #Feminism. In fact, it's quite misogynistic. Very misogynistic. The writing, the acting, the cinematography, the editing, the sound, the mis-en-scéne - all brilliant - every moment is crafted by a team. "By the time you're finished chasing all the stuff that's been took from you, there's more that's gone out the door." Swoon. Seriously. "All the time you spend gitting back what's been took from ya, more's going out the door. After a while you just have to try and git a tourniquet on it." No Country for Old Men (2007)  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477348 Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

The first scene has disgusted me. A six years old girl goes with a man she doesn't know for ice cream. While I was writing this the second scene disgusted me too. I don't hold out hope for redemption. The problem with movies is the addictive nature of the Pollyanna Phallussy. Because Sinatra ended up without the girl in the last piece of disgusting doggydooda, now I keep hoping. Sigh. IMDB Final Girl (2015) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2124787/ Actors: Abigail Breslin, Wes Bentley Director: Tyler Shields

#Feminism and #FatActivism. The rise of feminism coincides with the drop in blood sugar since you guys had us on salad diets. Makes sense, my mother had me on salad until I was 21. A couple of decades of low blood sugar is bound to piss anyone off.

My favorite film ever. It has stayed at the top all these years. The first one was my favorite. Not the director's cut. It's so crazy that today is Leon's Inception Date. Happy Inception Date, Leon. I'm glad there weren't many more. Article: Happy Inception Date, Leon by Matt Novalk IMDB Blade Runner (1982)  Actors: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer Director: Ridley Scott

🍒 A rare Bechdel-passer that is a really good movie. It's gone onto my have-to-have list. I provide no spoilers, but I suggest a strong coffee before. Thank you, lurker Segomotso Tselapedi, for knowing me so well that you made it a special evening for us, with fried tomato, my favorite. IMDB Miss Sloane (2016)  Actors: Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong Director: John Madden

#Feminism. Laura Dern, "Reality television has opened a door for real women to appear on TV. Women are no longer imprisoned in have-to-be-sweet, no-temper, no-angry, no-personality boxes. People are getting used to the idea that women are people." #ParaphrasingGenius

Janeane Garafalo out of Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce (2014-)? I'm out of here. Seriously? And we're left, again, with sycophantic people-pleasers. Loved Garafalo because she shows how those SexInTheCity types can exist in the same world with ordinary women. I guess that will never be true. Ah well.

🍒 #LoveIt. Bechdel-passer because lipstick, firing, betrayal. And the Afghan women speak to Tina Fey about water offscreen. An extraordinary moment. I know nothing about Afghanistan. IMDB Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016) Actors: Tina Fey, Margot Robbie Directors: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa

#Aargh. Passes the Bechdel because Emma Watson is told to shut up. And she is told she's dangerous because she's brainy. IMDB The Colony (2015) Actors: Emma Watson, Daniel Brühl Director: Florian Gallenberger