When I wanted to get a passport at age 20, I realized that my parents had lost my birth certificate. I sent away for it, and there was no first name on it (just "2" as the second of a set of twins), so I had to apply to get a name. The whole process took months. #hippieparents I kept the names they had given me but added an extra middle name, which was Charles-Armand de Polignac

After watching PIECES OF A WOMAN I was staggered by the thought that the most dramatic moment of many women's lives (childbirth) is so rarely the subject of movies. And reviews by men are using words like melodramatic, Lifetime movie, etc. It's a difficult watch. Shia LaBeouf is traumatizing because he's doing his aggressive man thing in a woman's picture. But like it or not, drama isn't melodrama simply because it's about a woman's life. The most maudlin, clichéd films about men are rarely called melodrama.

The full list of ten is:

RAN
KAGEMUSHA
VAGABOND
MISHIMA: A LIFE IN 4 CHAPTERS
THE KING OF COMEDY
VARIETY
HOUSE OF GAMES
MEPHISTO
FITZCARRALDO
L'ARGENT

https://twitter.com/ciuadadsaudade/status/1377709078089109505

Runners up:

WORKING GIRLS
CRACKING UP
BORDER RADIO
THE MAKIOKA SISTERS
FANNY AND ALEXANDER

I was just thinking about how when I traveled abroad to film festivals, I had various male intellectuals lecture me about why you "can't" make movies like I make today. Very nice men...very smart. They were just trying to educate me. A Spanish filmmaker told me that you can't make movies like this after Word War II. He then went on to explain the history of cinema to me, mentioning Bazin, etc. A French philosopher talked about Simone de Beauvoir being such old news in France, or something like that.

I rewatched I'M NO ANGEL last night, and it seems to me that the word Mae West created is slipping further and further away...radically so even in the last two or three years. Female desire, pleasure, glamour, and sexuality have become such wrought subjects, more than ever. Watching it, I couldn't help thinking about how masculinity and femininity were equally fetishized in old Hollywood, and now masculinity is fetishized as much as ever, but femininity is an embarrassment.

“Just the sight of this book made me wonder how it happened that so many different men have been and are so inclined to express both in speaking and in their treatises and writings so many wicked insults about women and their behavior.” -Christine de Pizan, 1405 "It seems that they all speak from one and the same mouth. They all concur in one conclusion: that the behavior of women is inclined to and full of every vice."

I just realized something: my two features VIVA and THE LOVE WITCH, plus my upcoming feature BLUEBEARD, are all visually inspired primarily by magazines and pulp covers. I think that's why there is a disconnect for me when people insist I'm copying FILM genres. I was scratching my head at people calling The Love Witch witchsploitation, and @PulpLibrarian shared his Tweets about witchsploitation, which were the actual sources I used! But they were all PRINT sources. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1241660…

Narcissists expect to exert the same control over OTHER PEOPLES' BODIES as normal people expect to exert over THEIR OWN BODIES. (From Heinz Kohut). Think of the implications of that. That could be anything from a mother expecting to choose her adult child's food and clothing to every type of assault to murder.

@rachsyme I never really had the feeling that I couldn't accomplish things, but whenever I've tried to accomplish things men have appeared out of nowhere to tell me that I'm bad at what I do and all my ideas are wrong. @rachsyme So whereas I wasn't socialized female within my family, men have taken it upon themselves to socialize me in adulthood (starting with boys in the teenage years).