Saturday, November 18
2pm
Online Film Discussion
Presented as part of Scarecrow Academy - Women in Trouble: Great Melodrama in Film, Part 2
Julie Dash
Recently voted to Sight & Sound magazine's list of greatest films of all time, Dash's impressionistic portrait of a Gullah community on a South Carolina island is a genuinely visionary work, lush in its visual approach and non-linear in its storytelling.
Part Two of Scarecrow Academy's "Women in Trouble: Great Melodrama in Film," a free online discussion series, continues with another nine weeks of movies that explore the way imaginative filmmakers have put women at the center of their hothouse creative universes. From traditional "women's pictures" to radical zig-zags on the idea of melodrama, these titles blend female-forward dilemmas with articulate cinematic style.
Discussions are led by National Society of Film Critics member Robert Horton, author of the Seasoned Ticket column at the Scarecrow blog and Scarecrow's "Historian-Programmer in Residence."
