The Naked Civil Servant
Director Jack Gold
Year: 1975
Subject Feature Film
Language English
Running Time 80 minutes
Distributor Thames Video Collection
Comments: This brilliant and beautiful film is the biography of an English
homosexual who came out of the closet long before it became fashionable for him
to do so. Quentin Crisp, who still lives in London, introduces the film. He is
an effeminate, flamboyant and witty exhibitionist whose conversation is as
glittering as the lipstick and mascara he once wore. But behind his careful and
dignified facade lies the sadness of a man who has lived through years of
ostracism and even violence. The film dramatizes his youth in the 1930's, his
ill-fated friendships, his encounters with authority and the law and his rare
moments of real happiness. John hurt won the British Academy Award as Best
Actor for his performance as Quentin Crisp.
Naturally Native
Year 1998
Subject Feature Film
Language English
Running Time 128 minutes
Distributor Red Horse Releasing
Comments: Three Native American sisters (Red-Horse, Bedard, Guerrero) decide
to try to sell a line of cosmetics they call Naturally Native, based on old
tribal remedies, only to have to fight an uphill battle with racist business
people. The film is actually Red-Horse's comment on her fight with the movie
industry to get her films made and this film is the first to be totally
financed by an Indian tribe, Connecticut's Mashantucket tribe.
Navajo Talking Picture
Director Arlene Bowman
Year 1986
Subject Documentary
Language English
Running Time 40 minutes
Distributor Women Make Movies
Comments: In Navajo Talking Picture an urban-raised Navajo film
student (Arlene Bowman) travels to the Reservation to document the traditional
ways of her grandmother. The filmmaking persists in spite of her grandmother's
forceful objections to this invasion of her privacy. Ultimately, what emerges
is a thought-provoking work which abruptly calls into question issues of
"insider/outsider" status in a portrait of an assimilated Navajo struggling to
use a "white man's" medium to capture the remnants of her cultural past.
New Year
Director: Valerie Soe
Year: 1987
Subject: Documentary
Running Time: 20 minutes
Distributor: Women Make Movies
Comments: At Chinese New Year Valerie felt special, but on Valentine’s Day,
she hated getting cards of bucktoothed Chinamen inscribed “Ah So.” In the first
part of this poignant and humorous tape, Soe, a fourth-generation Chinese
American, uses coloring book characters to render her childhood ambivalence
towards her heritage. In the second part, clips from TV programs, Hollywood
movies and comic books portray images which foster anti-Asian prejudice: Geisha
Girls and Dragon Ladies, Fortune Cookie Philosophers, Masters of Kung Fu, Japs,
Slopes, & Gooks, and the Worldwide Empire of Evil.
Nighthawks
Director Ron Peck and Paul Hallam
Year 1978
Subject Feature Film
Language English
Running Time 113 minutes
Distributor Water Bearer Films
Comments: The first gay feature ever to be theatrically released in England,
"Nighthawks was the most daring theatrically released gay themed feature of its
day" (Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video). A
well-liked geography teacher (Ken Robertson), quiet and closeted during the
day, goes on the prowl in the gay clubs and discos of '70s London by night. His
two worlds collide when he is publicly confronted by his students. "A work of
great candor and courage" (Time Magazine).
Nitrate Kisses
Director Barbara Hammer
Year 1992
Subject Documentary
Language English
Running Time 67 minutes
Distributor: WolfeVideo
Comments: Nitrate Kisses explore eroded emulsions and images for
lost vestiges of lesbian and gay culure. This first feature by Barbara Hmmer, a
practicing pioneer of lesbian cinema, weaves striking images of the sexual
activities of four gay and lesbian couples woth footage that nearths the
forbidden and invisible history of a marginalized people. Archival footage from
the first gay film in the U.S., Lot in Sodom (1933), and footage from
German documentary and narrative films of the 30s are interwoven with current
images of desire in this sexy and haunting documentary.
Nobody Knows My Name
Director Rachel Raimist
Year 1999
Running Time 58 mins
Distributor: Women Make Movies
Comments: Nobody Knows My Name tells the story of women who are
connected by their love for hip-hop music. Despite the fact that these talented
female artists exist within a culture that revolves around self-expression, the
subjects of Raimist's documentary must struggle to be heard. Asia One has found
a nitch as an organizer of the B-Boy Summit, but longs for a sense of female
community. DJ Symphony is the sole female member of the The World Famous Beat
Junkies. Leaschea lives a turbulent life, even though she has been signed by a
major label. Lisa married in the hip-hop lifestyle, and now raises a hip-hop
family. Medusa is the successful queen of the L.A. hip-hop underground. T-Love,
an ex-Cripette, hopes her creative talents will help her change her lifestyle.
Through the candid study of these women, documentarian Raimist explores a
fascinating and diverse feminist community, which yearns to find a place in a
male-dominated subculture that is, in itself, marginalized. Ultimately, Raimist
succeeds in empowering these self-actualized women by giving them voice for
which they struggle.
No Man's Land: Women Frontline Journalists
Director Shelley Saywell
Year 1994
Running Time 50 minutes
Distributor: First Run/Icarus Films
Comments: The film focuses on Janine di Giovanni, an American reporter who
covers Sarajevo for London's Sunday Times, and Lyse Doucet who covers the
"forgotten war" in Afghanistan for the BBC. As they and a number of other
correspondents, including Clare Hollingworth who became a legend covering World
War II for the Daily Telegraph; Martha Teichner; and Ann Medina, speak of their
experiences and personal sacrifices, many common traits are revealed. All are
extremely independent, and none has a child -- Hollingworth's husband even went
so far as to divorce her on grounds of desertion.
Not About Sex
Director Jessica Wilson
Year 1990
Subject Student Project
Running Time 23 min.
Comments: 2 Copies
Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady
Director:
Year: 1999
Subject: Documentary
Running Time: 90 minutes
Distributor: PBS Home Video
Comments: Not for Ourselves Alone tells the dramatic, little-known
story of one of the most compelling friendships in American history. Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were born into a world ruled entirely by men.
By the time their lives were over, they had changed for the better to lives of
a majority of American citizens. Their personal relationship was often
turbulent but they never wavered in their shared belief that equality was the
birthright of all women, and for more than half a century led the fight to make
that dream a reality. With superb live cinematography, compelling interviews,
and historical photographs never before seen on screen, this powerful film
provides an unforgettable dual portrait of two great Americans who improved
lives of women everywhere.
Not Men of Dartmouth
Director Mary Ader
Year 1991
Subject Student Project
Comments
2 Copies
NPR: All Things Considered 10-29-99 Hour One (cassette tape)
Language English
Running Time 1 hour
Comments
Rundown Women's Radio 1. Cultural Change- Queens, NY 2. Sudan Food Aid 3.
National Intelligence Community 4. Gun Modifying- CA 5. Online Crime 6. Air Aid
in 1951
NPR: All Things Considered 11-5-99 Hour One (cassette tape)
Language English
Running Time 1 hour
Comments
Rundown Women's Radio 1. Black Boxes 2. Out At Sea 3. Landmines 4. Kosovo 5.
Lost & Found Sound 6. Unemployment
NPR: Morning Edition 4-11-00 Hour One (cassette tape)
Language English
Running Time 1 hour
Comments
Rundown 1. Elian Gonzalez 2. Protests in Bolivia 3. Native
Americans-Elections 4. Laura Archer Pulfer 5. Angela Merkel 6. Abortion Law in
New York 7. Antiques On-Line.
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