Tuesday, January 29, 2008

TENTH POLL: FEMALE PERSONALITIES

My tenth poll is inspired by the stage performance PAST IS SIMULATION: THE LADIES OF THE SEA VS. NORA, AND OTHER STORIES OF THE SOCIETY, which is performed by HERSTAY, and directed by Monica Emilie Herstad from Norway. I think this performance may be about women. Though I don't understand many parts of the performance, I still think it is truly stunning. The parts that I like very much include the one in which two women try hard to wear high-heeled shoes, while a woman walks comfortably without that kind of shoes.

Seeing this performance makes me want to make a list of my favorite films about women. So I come up with this list:


THESE FILMS INVOLVE INTERESTING FEMALE PERSONALITIES. WHICH FILM DO YOU LIKE?

1.ANOTHER WOMAN (1988, Woody Allen, USA)

2.THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT (1972, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)

3.LES BONNES FEMMES (1960, Claude Chabrol, France)

4.FEMALE PERVERSIONS (1996, Susan Streitfeld, USA)

5.FULL MOON IN NEW YORK (1990, Stanley Kwan, Hong Kong)

6.GIRL (2002, Dorothee Van Den Berghe, Belgium)

7.THE INSANE (2006, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Thailand)

8.JULIET OF THE SPIRITS (1965, Federico Fellini, Italy)

9.MADAME X: AN ABSOLUTE RULER (1978, Ulrike Ottinger, West Germany)

10.OUR TIMES (2002, Rakhshan Bani Etemad, Iran)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0329560/

11.PERSONA (1966, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)

12.PHANTOM LOVE (2007, Nina Menkes, USA)

13.PRASART (1975, Pieak Poster, Thailand)

14.RADIANCE (1998, Rachel Perkins, Australia)

15.RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME (1946, Maya Deren, USA)

16.THE SLEEP OF REASON (1984, Ula Stockl, West Germany)

17.TEN TINY LOVE STORIES (2001, Rodrigo Garcia, USA)

18.WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS (1960, Mikio Naruse, Japan)

19.THE WOMEN (1939, George Cuckor, USA)

20.WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN (1988, Pedro Almodovar, Spain)


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1 comment:

celinejulie said...

I'm sorry for my mistake. The year of JULIET OF THE SPIRITS should be 1965, not 1996 as I put it in the poll.