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  Femme Films - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Femme Films is a production company which produces pornographic films aimed at an audience of women and couples.
The company is headed by former adult actress Candida Royalle, who directs and produces most of the films, but does not appear in front of the camera.
The films are regularly praised by counselors and therapists for depicting healthy and realistic sexual activity.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Femme_Films   (140 words)

  
 No Place for a Woman: The Femme Fatale
Moreover, there is clearly an impetus in film noir to transgress the boundaries of this circle; for the presence of husbands on crutches or in wheelchairs (Double Indemnity, Lady from Shanghai) suggests that impotence is somehow a normal component of the married state.
In the final scene of the film, the camera reveals the full visual power of the murdered femme fatale — the detective's entire apartment is filled with her photographs in a shrine to his obsession.
In the majority of noir films, however, the femme fatale remains committed to her independence, seldom allowing herself to be converted by the hero or captured by the police.
www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/noir/np05ff.html   (2422 words)

  
 H. Witthöft: Review of Wager, Dangerous Dames
The author asserts that both types of film are not as focused on the male experience as argued in previous studies, but rather that they provide "stories that address a female spectator by providing her with various visual and narrative pleasures" (xiv).
Although she clearly interprets the films from a female point of view, in order to call her analysis feminist her findings would need to be a little more radical, and there should be more references to feminist scholarship.
Though it is certainly necessary to see both the femme fatale and the femme attrapée in relation to the male hero in order to define their roles adequately, there seems to be so much discourse devoted to the male that it detracts from the female characters who should be the center of attention.
rmmla.wsu.edu /ereview/54.2/reviews/witthoeft.asp   (1314 words)

  
 Femme Fatale review
With Femme Fatale, Brian de Palma proposes an amused exercise in style, bright fireworks that voraciously embrace all the clichés of the genre and officiate as a parodied and baroque homage.
The film is clearly a visual departure from its predecessors, as aesthetics here are relegated to the background to better concentrate on the screen-writing "tricks".
If Femme Fatale seems like a superficial film with simple dialogue, caricatured characters and unequal casting, it is precisely that the film likens itself to that which it mocks, showing off as an erotic Hitchcockian soap opera that flirts with press "people".
www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/femmefatale.html   (669 words)

  
 DVD Review: Femme Fatale (2002)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Femme Fatale is director Brian DePalma's attempt at a classic film noir with a modern twist.
Femme Fatale is filled with enough twists and turns to keep the casual movie viewer interested, but it also acts as an homage to the noir films, with both literal references (Double Indemnity plays on a TV) and suggested references of noir through shot composition and costume.
The film wasn't a hit at all, so it was nice that they devoted so much attention to the making of the film.
www.lightsoutfilms.com /dvd_femmefatale.html   (507 words)

  
 Film Noir's Progressive Portrayal of Women, by John Blaser
Film noir's portrayal of the femme fatale, therefore, would seem to support the existing social order — and particularly its rigidly defined gender roles — by building up the powerful, independent woman, only to punish her in the end.
[T]here is clearly an impetus in film noir to transgress the boundaries of this circle [of family relations]; for the presence of husbands on crutches or in wheelchairs (Double Indemnity, Lady from Shanghai) suggests that impotence is somehow a normal component of the married state.
If it is true that the audience for film noir is less interested in the what than in the how — more interested in character than in plot — then the resolution of the plot with the destruction of the femme fatale is far less significant than the independence and power of the femme fatale.
www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/noir/pp-all.html   (1319 words)

  
 BBC - Films - review - Femme Fatale DVD
Visualising "Femme Fatale" De Palma reveals in this featurette that for years he's wanted to stage a film where a femme fatale would be involved in a heist.
"Femme Fatale": An Appreciation The filming of the movie is covered in some depth here, especially the Cannes scene, which was a reconstruction of the real thing.
De Palma naturally had to get some of his trademark long and slow panning shots into the film, and one of these is dissected in some detail.
www.bbc.co.uk /films/2003/08/01/femme_fatale_2003_dvd_review.shtml   (422 words)

  
 Godard: Woman is a Woman
Une femme est une femme is an anti-musical, in which all the conventions of the genre are subverted: the actors fail to perform professionally as singers or dancers, the scenes take place in real, noisy bistros, a dreary newsagents and a cramped apartment rather than sumptuous sets (though filmed on set).
The disruption of conventional style is the film's hallmark, to the point of irritation for some viewers all of the time and probably for all viewers some of the time.
On film all this is completely without explanation, and the Karina-Brialy argument in fact takes place on the stairs rather than in the apartment, as if Godard could not make up his mind whether to use the farce element or not, or thought it did not matter.
www.mediantics.com /emediate/films/godwmn.htm   (4000 words)

  
 High Heels on Wet Pavement
To me the most engaging semblance of a “femme fatale” is the stunning image of Lana Turner, as the camera pans from her ankles upward in that breathtaking shot from “The Postman Always Rings Twice” 1946.
The undercurrent that flows through most “high noir” films is the failure on the part of the male leads to recognize the dishonesty inherent in many of noir’s principal women.
The central figures portrayed in these films, were too often caught in their double binds, filled with existential bitterness.
www.moderntimes.com /palace/film_noir   (1307 words)

  
 DVDBeaver.com - Article - Tran Anh Hung
While many films about or from Vietnam deal with the imposing spectre of war that has ravaged that country, Tran only alluded to this aspect of the identity of his birth place using his personal brand of delicate and subtle references.
In total opposition to his first film, Tran created a brutal and harsh story of the effects of violence and poverty on a struggling family in the city of Saigon.
His films celebrated the joys of the colonial charm of Hanoi and the horrors of street existence in Ho Chi Min City.
www.dvdbeaver.com /tran.htm   (2204 words)

  
 Femme Fatales
When these films took off, Toei Studios in order to differentiate between the pink films and a new type of exploitation film they developed in the late Sixties named their line Pinky Violent both the pink and the pinky referred to the fact that there were going to be naked women in them.”
There are four films in the Delinquent Girl series starring Reiko Oshida who is kind of the prototypical modern bad girl.
Femme Fatales celebrates the alluring women of film, television and pop culture with more sexy photos per page than any magazine of its kind on the market.
www.femmefatales.com /?p=461   (1021 words)

  
 Future Star Network › ForumsPro › FSN Community Forums › Your Movies › Femme Noir 2 - ...
Femme Noir is a two-fisted tale of hard-boiled crime and punishment.
Femme Noir 2 will follow in the same footsteps as its predecessor, by treating movie-goers to the same visceral action they loved in the first.
In this up-coming installment, Femme Noir (played by Jasmyn Banks, with voice work by LydB) embarks on a personal quest to obtain justice from the people directly involved in the brutal slaying of her father, Don Gino DeMilo (Ethan Attridge), Port Nocturne’s former boss of bosses.
www.futurestarnetwork.com /ForumsPro/viewtopic/p=4677.html   (580 words)

  
 Alligator Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The festival's headliner is the 1990 crossover hit, "La Femme Nikita." "Nikita" hooks viewers right from the opening shot of four punks dragging a body through the dark Parisian streets.
The effect of a policeman's mysterious death on his friends and family is the focus of "Les Voleurs" (1996).
Flashbacks are the storytelling mode du jour in this acclaimed film starring Catherine Deneuve as a philosophy professor conducting an affair with Alex, the cop's brother.
www.alligator.org /edit/issues/98-sprg/980402/e03film.htm   (554 words)

  
 Femme Fatale (2002) Movie Review by Shaun Sages at The Movie Insider
But once understanding what direction the film is headed towards, this sexually-fueled playpen of mistaken identities, infatuations, and double-crosses becomes one of the year’s guiltiest of pleasures.
Femme Fatale features such a decadent opening sequence, it had to be set during the Cannes film festival.
As lead, Stamos carries the film by demanding our attention; and she succeeds in capturing it not through strutting her rail-thin body, but by being in command of the story almost as much as De Palma is.
www.themovieinsider.com /mr259-femme-fatale-movie-review.html   (486 words)

  
 Trinity Films
We kick things off with Mike Nichols' The Graduate (1967), a film that caused a generation to look back at the hypocrisy of their parents and to reject the vapid consumerism that that older generation represented.
The kids, of course, turned to drugs and wanton sex, which in turn caused their children to become straight-laced and to embrace the Reagan-Thatcher revolution of the early eighties.
Well, you could end of with a film by Crispin Glover but that being said, Cuckoo's Nest is a brilliant movie from a time when cinematic gems were the norm and whose quiet grace still pays dividends for those willing to seek out such thoughtful fare.
www.geocities.com /lee_ngaifun/trinityfilms.html   (966 words)

  
 CityBeat: Devil Girl (2002-11-07)
Femme Fatale is not a simple story like De Palma's 1987 film The Untouchables, and its tale of U.S. Treasury agent Elliot Ness bringing Al Capone to justice in 1930s Chicago.
Femme Fatale is all about the shot -- the clever shots De Palma stages with the camera and the gunshots that fill the screen.
The film's finale is clichéd and disappointing, a joke on the audience who believe they have been watching a real-life thriller.
www.citybeat.com /2002-11-07/printable/film2.html   (979 words)

  
 Fabulous Forgotten Forties Femme Fatales
Some of the forties femme fatales became unforgettable parts of pop culture: Rita Hayworth flipping her hair in Gilda, Betty Grable's "legs", Veronica Lake's hairdo.
The other important reason that Landis be remembered is for Four Jills in a Jeep, her book and film about her extensive USO travels during the War.
Eventually she graduated to leads in "B" films and second leads in "A" pictures where she usually played a home-wrecker: "I seem to be a woman always with a gun in her purse...
www.suspense-movies.com /articles/femme-fatales   (1492 words)

  
 Karen Everett -- Films -- My Femme Divine
This brilliantly artistic film reveals the romantic world of contemporary butch and femme lesbians through the eyes of a woman mining her own explosive love affair.
Filmmaker Karen Everett, an ex-Mormon, poignantly narrates her hot romance with the beautiful femme from Tennessee, and the spiritual reawakening she experienced while weathering the storms of enchantment.
Her works include Sweet Boy (2001); My Femme Divine (1999), which won Best Director's Award at the San Diego LGBT film Festival; the award-winning Biography I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life of Marlon Riggs (1996), which aired on PBS and Framing Lesbian Fashion (1992), named a Best Documentary by the American Film Institute.
www.kareneverett.org /femme.html   (272 words)

  
 newsletter - jan 2003 | Cinefemme
We are in the pre-production for three short films, The Art of Living Time, Bettina in the Fog, and Silk.
Each of the three films examines its female protagonist’s unique relationship to her body, offering an alternative to mainstream representations of female subjectivity.
These films will be part of a larger compilation exploring the idea that it is mortality that gives life poignancy.
www.cinefemme.org /news/jan2003.htm   (484 words)

  
 filmjourney.org : Back from vacation...Bresson
For those who have been wondering about my recent absence, I went to a music festival with some friends last week and was surprised to discover I didn't have Internet access for a few days.
Schrader: But in your last three films, the colour films, Une femme douce, Four Nights of a Dreamer, and Lancelot, I feel a new direction in your films which I don't fully understand and.
I said that in the first film it was too obvious.
filmjourney.weblogger.com /2004/07/06   (484 words)

  
 european-films.net - review: La femme de Gilles (Gilles' Wife)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The title of Frédéric Fonteyne's La femme de Gilles has enclosed in it the heart of the film, since femme in French means both wife and more generically woman.
I wonder why the distributor has decided to translate it as wife rather than woman: In a film about a wife dealing with her husband’s infatuation with her sister (who initially responds favourably) this ambiguity about who really is Gilles’ woman seems entirely appropriate.
With her at the centre of the film, La femme the Gilles must be one of the quietest motion pictureS in recent memory.
european-films.net /content/view/310/60   (512 words)

  
 Hong Kong Femme Fatale Films
- cool and sleek and often filmed in blue hues, this story of an emotionally detached professional hit person - the stunning Wu Chien-lien - who kills with no pity or remorse is hypnotic.
This film is just a perfect delight with amazingly synchronized kung fu routines.
Almen Wong is glorious and though the film has its weaknesses it is worth it to catch Almen do her thing.
www.brns.com /pages/bb5fem.html   (585 words)

  
 H'wood femme toppers club defies stereotypes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
However, some of the best-known films with female protagonists and/or female subject matter have come from these three studios.
A survey of the top 250 films for 2001 by Dr. Martha L. Lauzen, professor of communications at San Diego State University, showed women directors decreased from 11% in 2000 to 6% in 2001 and women writers 14% to 10%.
In 2000, 40% of the writers of their films were women, a fact that could have a lot to do with Pascal's strong choices and development skills.
talentdevelop.com /HwdFemToppers.html   (675 words)

  
 Femme 2006
A decade of films deliver new femme worlds, from the streets and sheets of Black Britain, to the elite white towers of colleges and universities, to the streets and frontseats of Fruitvale in Oakland.
films initiate, and invite our community into an open conversation that explores the promises and limitations of a femme politic.
From bartenders to rodeo queens, this program of short films revels in the glorious diversity of femininity as femmes master their looks, politics, and identities.
www.femme2006.com /film.html   (587 words)

  
 La Femme de mon pote (My Best Friend's Girl)
The ménage-à-trois situation is a recurring theme in director Bertrand Blier’s deliciously subversive filmography and it is always interesting to compare the different way he approaches the subject in his films, from the outrageously farcical Tenue de soirée to the intensely brooding Trop belle pour toi.
La Femme de mon pote is the closest Blier comes to a traditional French romantic comedy and is, for that reason, the least interesting of his angst-ridden three-in-a-bed romps.
Huppert’s beauty and sensual femininity are rarely as fully utilised as they are in this film, making it a treat for her fans, although some will doubtless lament the fact that her role doesn’t really allow her to stretch her acting skills too far.
frenchfilms.topcities.com /nf_La_femme_de_mon_pote_rev.html   (392 words)

  
 dOc DVD Review: La Femme Nikita (1990)
The bleakness of the agencies headquarters is emphasized with widely composed two shots, while the tension during some of the action sequences is maintained not only with effective scripting, but by decisive editing to hold the suspense.
Serra's score greatly enhances the mood of the film (as they do in Besson's other films), and while the story arc is satisfying, it is not always as expected.
As this is a French film, my first concern is the difference in that soundtrack, and this release is equal to or better than the previous Pioneer release, which had a discrete 4.0 track.
www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=672   (1146 words)

  
 Zonker Films - Home of PISS Fest!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The purpose of this grant is to improve the entrepreneurial capacity of local film and video professionals.
She hopes to continue to use the "Portland Film Project" as a way to support and promote the local film community.
Rebecca Rodriguez has produced and directed her a number of short films including SOUL COLLECTORS, which was featured at the Seattle International Film Fest, and FLOATER, which premiered at the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema in April 2001 and was selected by Hypnotic.com as one of twenty-five films to compete for $1MM feature film budget.
www.zonkerfilms.com /lefemme.htm   (866 words)

  
 Foundation Films Distribution - A division of Lafemme.org ©2004 All Rights Reserved   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Foundation Films is a Los Angeles based feature-film distribution company whose goal is to assist Independent Filmmakers in the distribution of high quality, budget-challenged independent films.
This is a Division of LA Femme Inc. and we accept films from any and all filmmakers (both men and women) from every corner of the planet.
Foundation Films values and encourages writer, director, producer, actor and crew participation in making the individual sales of your film a reality.
foundationfilms.lafemme.org   (113 words)

  
 Female Action Film Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Indeed, these films have represented one of several defining characteristics of Hong Kong cinema’s appeal as popular entertainment.
Effects-assisted martial arts have featured prominently in a number of recent popular action films and parts for female fighters are beginning to appear.
There is little doubt that, in this regard, the best female performers in HK action films succeeded in transcending the financial and artistic constraints of their medium to create enduring, memorable performances worthy of repeated viewing.
www.brns.com /femalewarr/pages/overview12.html   (319 words)

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