Rise up! Rise up and revolt! Don't dare allow yourself to be oppressed! Don't accept the status quo on the basis that it is the status quo! Don't deny yourself to placate those around you! Don't neglect these classic films! Rise up and watch them! And revolt!
THE CIRCLE (2000) - JAFAR PANAHI
This is the way we live. These people are not just women. Not just Iranian women. They're as much a part of the human race as you or I. They're us. And this is the way we live. No home, no justice, no respect, no love, no happiness, no notice. Jafar Panahi notices, and in doing so implicitly respects and loves these people. One of the 21st Century's first masterpieces. It's banned in Iran.
DAISIES (1966) - VERA CHYTILOVA
Hooray for Vera Chytilova! A female director, still alive today, and barely recognised by film-watching communities around the world for the maverick she is. Daisies is one of the most infectiously vivacious films I've seen, quirky, funny and genuinely cute, in a good way! It was banned after release in Czechoslovakia, not long before Chytilova herself was banned from filmmaking altogether for six years.
PARIS IS BURNING (1990) - JENNIE LIVINGSTON
As drag began its rise into mainstream entertainment in the US, through the 1980s, Jennie Livingston made this portrait of the New York scene, and the queens who defined it and were defined by it. Check it out to see some of the most sickening queens in history at their peak. What they've contributed to contemporary pop culture is invaluable. The library is open!
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