This was not possible without the…, gabriel guimarães? If we are not granted the means to revolution we will imagine our own and weld that power as our weapon. Born in Flames 1983 ★★★★★ 03 Apr, 2020 aaannaaa’s review published on Letterboxd: holy cow!! It’s exhausting and invigorating. This review may contain spoilers. In This Moment's official audio for the song “Born In Flames” off the album 'Mother'. Absolutely incredible stuff. If we are not granted the means to revolution we will imagine our own and weld that power as our weapon. Share this page. 2,387 films watched. The ending is one of the maddest things I’ve ever seen, Lightyears ahead of its time and one of the best soundtracks I’ve ever heard. Review by Adam C. Born in Flames 1983 ★★★ Watched Mar 21, 2020. Visually, it's as innovative as Spike Lee at his best, mixing collage, stock footage, documentary discussion and traditional narrative it feels realer than real. Essential viewing. Gay Harder by Born in Flamez published on 2019-12-03T16:10:55Z. In a future where a socialist government gains power, a group of women decides to organize and rebel. Watched by N Z. Plot. Born in Flames 1983 ★★★★★ 05 Feb, 2019 maddywiryo’s review published on Letterboxd: Baddass. We’re never done. Join here. Born in flames may well be "the most sanctimonious movie ever made". TMDb A reaction is a platform, actually, in this universe that is at least. I need to rewatch this to refresh my mind, but it had that energy of when you’re with your friends and you’re all PISSED and got a lot to say, so you gather the people and make ART. Born in Flames is a probing, feminist piece of guerrilla filmmaking that depicts an alternate America under social democracy and the female revolution that erupts from the myriad and pervading forms of continued oppression women experience under this gaslighting and deleterious government. Marx wasn't bold enough to write "recipes for the cook shops of the future" but this movie is running a whole kitchen, free lunch program and all. A reaction is a platform, actually, in this universe that is at least. Favorites: Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Embrace of the Serpent (2015), Mulholland Drive (2001), First Reformed (2017). Smart, thoughtful, badass, radical. I am gushing over this. I wouldn’t be surprised if Spike Lee’s docu-style filmmaking, full of inserts and cutaways that blend fiction with reality, was inspired in part by Borden’s work on this film (which I would suspect is inspired on some level by Goddard, particularly in regard to the editing style and the politics). You couldn’t make it up. Quite a well put together indie film overall. N’s films. Report this film. Born in Flames. A little too cerebral and inaccessible for my bird brain, but I respect it more than I can even articulate (again, bird brain). It gets me pumped. It’s an LGBTQ+ world and these are my other LGBTQ+ lists on Letterboxd: ➡️Minor Interest Films: In the Closet: A…, Ranked by average user rating. one of the most bracing political films i’ve ever seen. the rage is palpable; the conversations are prescient. Name Watched Lists Likes; Luke Gorham 175 followers, following 89. i decided on these 250…, Check out the official top 100 narrative feature films by women directors list, no "why isn't this movie here" please, I am a critic specializing in lesbian feminist film I can promise you…. this film goes layers deep into feminism, race, and control, to an extent I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen in a narrative film. It's interesting. So Long, My Son, 2019 - ★★★½. Essential viewing for people on the left in 2020. Both films are post-war, but depict ravaging battles of spirit that are still to come. Born in Flames 1983 ★★★½ . I was very wrapped up the whole time but have to admit that the appearance of Eric Bogosian really threw me off for a moment. A critique of social democracy as being unfit to address sexism, racism, and homophobia makes sense; any political approach which insufficiently addresses imperialism is doomed to uphold all of those and more. A totally tantalizing idea I'd never given much attention to, but here we see multiple splinter collectives of variously disenfranchised ethnic, gender, and social groups battling in the hearts, streets, and especially screens of a fictional future society that's still subject to white, male, corporate-controlled media and power structures. An angry, funny, aggressively rhetorical and didactic metadoc, Peter Watkins-style, about an illusion of socialist utopianism deployed as a pacifying distraction of the patriarchy! Formally this isn't that different than say Peter Watkins' PUNISHMENT PARK or a Ken Loach movie (LAND AND FREEDOM, especially) with the multiple scenes of people sitting around debating revolutionary strategy, but oh man is the content fiery and righteous. Favorites: By the Time It Gets Dark (2016), Thriller (1979), Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (1975), Born in Flames (1983). 1983 Anarcho-feminism good. This list is for scripts or source material written or co-written by women. Rousing, direct brilliance. 2,367 films watched. Mobile site. cool ass feminist leftist militant organizing in alternative social democracy america, really really sick and features rad organizer icon flo kennedy kinda playing herself (well at the least she keeps the cowboy outfit) Block or Report. Psychosis in Stockholm, 2020 - ★★★ Watched on Friday January 15, 2021. what an incredible blend of documentary and narrative. Watch It Burn by Born in Flamez published on 2019-12-03T16:13:51Z. Be that Stockholm syndrome, or the ultimate unifier. Another Round, 2020 - ★★½ . Dystopian fiction works best when the world described is at least somewhat recognizable as a logical ending place from where we are now. I’m stunned. Essential viewing. The people on the street who aren’t acting don’t even know they’re in a better world. 4206969 uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. “Born in Flames” feels like the feminist successor to “Rome, Open City.” It shares the same bravery and scrappy creativity of its Italian predecessor. Born in flames may well be "the most sanctimonious movie ever made". This is the sixth entry into a NYC movie marathon my boyfriend and I are curating to memorialize our forsaken annual trip to the hometown of our hearts. IMDb Anette uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. It came as no surprise to learn that feminist filmmaker Lizzie Borden (a name she adopted in honor of the notoriously parricidal murder suspect of the 1890s) was inspired by the example of Jean-Luc Godard; for there's enough of La Chinoise and Weekend packed into Borden's iconic Born in Flames to radicalize an affluent soccer mom on her way to a PTA meeting. Jay uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. You’ve got the fuel, I’ll bring the matches. We all know that Bernie would have won. Dinosaur Shakedown by Born in Flamez published on 2019-12-03T16:08:07Z. BigLemons’s review published on Letterboxd: Considering the cast of non-actors, lack of budget, flying-by-the-seat-of-your-pants five year production and reliance on improvisation, it's insane how well this works. Name Watched Lists Likes; datacontributor 19 followers, following 103 Film data from TMDb. Led by a pirate radio station run by black women, the…. Anything with more than 1,000 views on Letterboxd that’s longer… Films Directed by Women. By (accuratly) predicting the conflicts and contridictions that would be present post revolution, Born In Flames is doing vital work that is far more than the sum of its parts. Insane to me that this was filmed guerrilla style inside Reagan’s America. © Letterboxd Limited. What BORN IN FLAMES does so well is just goes ahead and makes "where we are now" the dystopia with only minimal embellishments to re-contextualize the footage of police violence, sexual harassment, and social unrest. Plus we get that late 70s through early 80s explosion of homemade energy out of NYC from a radically different perspective than usual. 790 films watched. Since then social conditions have deteriorated continually leading to rife underemployment and high rates of violence against women (this could have been set in Trump's America I guess). Mobile site. Vitalina Varela, 2019 - ★★★ Watched on Wednesday December 30, 2020. eli uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. Born in Flames is a probing, feminist piece of guerrilla filmmaking that depicts an alternate America under social democracy and the female revolution that erupts from the myriad and pervading forms of continued oppression women experience under this gaslighting and deleterious government. Started laughing really hard when I realized this was gonna end with Feminist 9/11. “Born in Flames” feels like the feminist successor to “Rome, Open City.” It shares the same bravery and scrappy creativity of its Italian predecessor. It illustrates class struggle, feminist struggles, and racial struggles through familiar lenses, but also…. Capitalism is reaching its breaking point. Username or Email Shot with a pocket-change budget of $40,000, director Lizzie Borden’s docu-fiction work is pieced together with a mix of non-professional actor-activists, fake news broadcasts, and found footage. Check out the official top 100 narrative feature films by women directors list. 67 films watched. Both films are post-war, but depict ravaging battles of spirit that are still to come. Anarcho-feminism good. We have a right to violence, but our enacting of violence must be symbolic, not personal. Born in Flames ist ein pseudodokumentarischer feministischer Science-Fiction-Film von Lizzie Borden aus dem Jahr 1983, der in einer alternativweltlichen sozialdemokratischen USA spielt. Born in Flames is a probing, feminist piece of guerrilla filmmaking that depicts an alternate America under social democracy and the female revolution that erupts from the myriad and pervading forms of continued oppression women experience under this gaslighting and deleterious government. Filmmaking is an act of freedom and rebellion. Class reductionism bad. i decided on these 250…, Check out the official top 100 narrative feature films by women directors list, no "why isn't this movie here" please, I am a critic specializing in lesbian feminist film I can promise you…. this film goes layers deep into feminism, race, and control, to an extent I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen in a narrative film. The ending is one of the maddest things I’ve ever seen, Lightyears ahead of its time and one of the best soundtracks I’ve ever heard. Marx wasn't bold enough to write "recipes for the cook shops of the future" but this movie is running a whole kitchen, free lunch program and all. I didn't think this was great but it's interesting. the rage is palpable; the conversations are prescient. Conflicting "progressive" agendas (from grassroots "Take Back the Night"-style protest to outright terrorism) struggle for dominance. It's interesting. Killer soundtrack to boot. Serious, prescient, homemade, as far out of establishment filmmaking as you can get, with a message that has dated solely in details and in many cases what’s changed is changed for the worse. Born in Flames. I do not want to reduce women to outfits, but there are some great ones here. See this awesome movie. It makes me happy to know someone made a film about this. Oppression in all of its many creeds and colours. Human beings are not meant for the abuse that we have…, As a result of not being able to find any complete, detailed or concise list of all film movements on…, tarrdigrade 1,849 films 33,561 234 Edit, If you're feeling overwhelmed, but still want to squeeze a film into your daily routine, this list is made for…, I’m sick of sorting through concerts, series, and other non-movies. 2,358 films watched. Favorites: Repo Man (1984), Alien (1979), Parasite (2019), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). They wouldn’t believe you for a second. It's illustrative. It makes me happy to know someone made a film about this. This is the sixth entry into a NYC movie marathon my boyfriend and I are curating to memorialize our forsaken annual trip to the hometown of our hearts. Anette’s followers. You could just scroll a feminist call to revolutionary action across a blank screen with no soundtrack at all, and I think I'd give it 5 stars. Honey Adele Bertei Jean Satterfield Florynce Kennedy Becky Johnston Kathryn Bigelow Hillary Hurst Eric Bogosian Pat Place Ron Vawter Mark Boone Junior Pat Murphy Ed Bowes Walter Scheuer Peggy Lee Brennan, 80 mins   Since this isn't merely a textual call to action, but an actual film, I actually love it more. Born in Flames. Upgrade to a Letterboxd Pro account to add your favorite services to this list—including any service and country pair listed on JustWatch—and to enable one-click … Now, if Lizzie Borden makes a followup on the repression under fascism, she might be closer to where we are today. this pulls off the dreamiest balance of infuriating and hopeful. Suppression as the “equaliser”; There’s nothing that inspires fear in their hearts more than the very idea of you standing up for yourself.