Just heard about this film called September 5 coming out Jan 24th in the UK. I think it looks real good- not sure if it’s worth checking out
i would absolutely SOB if i saw Howl’s Moving Castle on the big screen (/pos)
there’s also a new Superman movie coming out in July so maybe we could add one of those onto the schedule instead of something else (looking at you, kraven)
So I didn’t catch this until after the meeting was over but it’d be worth checking over how many films we’ve got that are made/led by women - right now it’s skewing very filmbro-y and film student-y, and while I think Terminator 2, Ocean’s 11, Memento and Minority Report would all be good choices in isolation having all four of them on there is a bit much. There’s definitely newer releases that I’d love to see on here (All We Imagine As Light, The Room Next Door, Red Rooms, Nightbitch, Girls Will Be Girls, Emilia Perez especially - some of them are on their theatrical run now but we’ve got other new releases that will also be late by the time term rolls around so I don’t think it’d be that much of an issue, especially since some of these will probably fly under people’s radars), and almost certainly some older releases that we can put on there that are not just about (white) men. I don’t want to talk about it like there’s some kind of quota we have to meet but I do think it’s something worth considering.
There’s not really an easy solution here but for some of the new and older releases we’re less sure about we might want to think about which ones could be replaced with films that are not about men? Which isn’t a direct attack on any of the films on here they’re all good choices on their own like I said but all together it’s falling into a very specific vibe. Personally I think I’d back dropping stuff like The Apprentice, Kraven the Hunter (I know we talked about it but I think it’s going to flop and isn’t really worth it), one of the aforementioned Minority Report/Ocean’s 11/Memento, possibly Airplane if it meant we could make room for some of the smaller (though I think The Room Next Door and Emilia Perez will get hype around Oscar season?) releases I’ve mentioned (non-exhaustive though, just some examples). I know we want to get people to actually see things but I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing to take a risk on some smaller releases that people might not hear of at all otherwise, especially not when we’ve got bigger releases that will do well. (Also worth checking the same thing for movies by/about non white people, which I haven’t had a chance to do - I’m not familiar with a lot of films on the schedule so a lot of this is just at a cursory glance/quick google search)
I do really like how this is looking so far, and this is less of a thing about this schedule in particular as it is a wider thing I think it would be good to be aware of going forward? There’s some really good stuff on there and I’m looking forward to a lot of it!!
(edited to add: i’m not sure if woman of the hour is getting a cinematic release here but that might be a shout? I don’t want to suggest way too many new releases cause I know we’ve got limited space but)
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i think this is a really good point, i think the schedule is strong and has some great films that will do very well but agree it’s very film bro-y (as much as i love loads of these films) and could have a more diverse range of stories. i agree with cerys that i think we are in a position to take a couple risks with smaller/newer female-led films with some really strong individual films on the schedule too.
a couple other films i could think of are:
- babygirl (halina reijn, director of bodies bodies bodies and stars nicole kidman, not sure how well it would do/how great it looks but just a suggestion.
- i back woman of the hour if we can find a release for it
- orlando with tilda swinton
- cleo from 5 to 7. foreign language film and female-directed/starring
- tiger stripes, relatively new (2023)
- the matrix/american psycho - still film bro-y but female directors
- we were dangerous, new release
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as an alternative to paris is burning: pride 2014? covers something historical would fit nicely with lgbt history month?
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It’s a good point and something I’ve tried to amend in the next draft, we’re doing better than term 1 in terms of female-led films, which I know isn’t saying much, but it might be that the male-led films we have on the term 2 schedule as of now are much bigger films than the female led ones on there. We have more new releases featuring female and non-male leads but obviously they are less well known as they haven’t had the time yet to build that audience. I’ve added a few on the new draft. Woman of the Hour would have been good but it’s already on streaming so won’t have a theatrical release - there’s not much point putting netflix films on the schedule unless we get them hot off the press.
oh yeah for sure!! a lot of the new releases are more male led just because of the general State Of Things, but i’ve looked at some of the changes to the second draft and they look super super good!! (emilia perez in 35mm especially sounds awesome, also very pro-all about my mother and layla, which i think is one id thought of as a suggestion but forgot about!) i know it’s a tough balance to strike between ‘stuff that will do well’ and ‘stuff that isn’t overwhelmingly abt men’ in general
(also i didn’t realise woman of the hour had gone straight to streaming it was just one id seen had been doing fairly well recently)
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