The F-Word stage blog: July 2020
The F-Word’s round-up of what’s happening in the world of comedy and theatre this month
films
Edinburgh Festival Fringe: part six
The F-Word’s sixth and final set of reviews of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe covering comedy, theatre and spoken word
UnderWire festival at The Yard Theatre: 19-23 November
Fourth edition of UnderWire film festival kicks off on Tuesday 19 November at the Yard Theatre in Hackney...
London Feminist Film Festival returns!
This is call for submissions from the team behind the London Feminist Film Festival that premiered last December,...
New review: Bad weather
Banishanta is a tiny island in the Bay of Bengal, some 300 feet long and 30 feet wide....
On UFO and Chinese women
M. Lý-Eliot praises independent Chinese director Xiaolu Guo's latest offering
Wildness comes to the Silver Platter
With her neck still hurting from trying to read the subtitles over people's heads, Jess McCabe hails director Wu Tsang's sensitive portrait of one Los Angeles bar
Towards perfection
Impressed with director Christine Beck's dedication to her first feature, Katherine Wootton praises the story of two women caught up in a quest for bodily perfection
New review: Lore
Some children grow up faster than others. This happens often in the war zones, with parents killed or...
In her parents’ shadow
Ania Ostrowska reviews Lore by Cate Shortland, an accelerated coming of age story set amid the chaotic twilight of Second World War
As lesbian space alien as it gets
Selina Robertson reviews New Yorker Madeleine Olnek's debut feature and chats to the director about sci-fi B-movies from the 1950s and the advantages of video over film
New review: Hit So Hard: the life and near-death story of Patty Schemel
Hit So Hard: the life and near-death story of Patty Schemel is a 2011 documentary by P. David...
Hole story of Schemel not Love
Cazz Blase enjoys the documentary about Hole's drummer Patty Schemel that puts one of the most exciting bands of the 1990s firmly on the rock'n'roll map without losing intimate touch
New review and COMPETITION: Lawrence of Arabia
Among other things, December 2012 is the 50th anniversary of the theatrical release of David’s Lean Lawrence of...
First ever London Feminist Film Festival opens in Hackney on Thursday
With many screenings sold out already, a vibrant website featuring interviews with filmmakers and a four day programme...
Underwire Film Festival: celebrating shorts by women. At the Ritzy until Saturday!
UnderWire festival opened last night for the third time. It was launched in 2010 by Gabriella Apicella and...
Welcome to the world?
Chrissy D reviews a documentary about the impact of poverty on childbirth around the globe, presented by DocHouse as part of Why Poverty? series, and calls for maternal health to be taken more seriously everywhere
Compliant with abuse
Having resisted an urge to walk out of the screening of Compliance, Charlotte Rowland denounces the film as nothing more than misogynist torture-porn that should be stripped off its aura of "edginess" once and for all