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By Jenny Chamarette
It Takes Blood and Guts by Skin (with Lucy O’Brien) is currently in hardback (£20.00, or £18.60 + shipping on Bookshop.org), in audiobook (narrated by Skin and Lucy O’Brien, prices differ by platform), and ebook (£9.99). If you have a UK library card, you can check OverDrive to see if your library has the audiobook or ebook for loan.
By Frances Morgan
The Assistant is available to rent or buy from a number of online platforms: Birds Eye View have handily collated them. We recommend Curzon Home Cinema (£3.99 to rent).
Continue reading “Culture Club: Watching THE ASSISTANT by Kitty Green”
Listening to Lizzie Borden and Jessie Rovinelli talk So Pretty, Working Girls, and Beyond
By Reba Martin
Courtney Barnett’s Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sitis available on Spotify, Youtube and Bandcamp: Friday 2 Oct is a Bandcamp Friday, when whatever you pay goes direct to artists.
Continue reading “Culture Club: Listening to Courtney Barnett and Adriene”
By Hava and Maz @therightlube
Indianara is currently showing in the MUBI library (UK and US) until May 2021.
Continue reading “Culture Club: Watching INDIANARA by Marcelo Barbosa and Aude Chevalier-Beaumel”
By Anahit Behrooz
The Virgin Suicides is available to rent or buy from Amazon and iTunes in the UK, and is on Kanopy in the US. Anna Backman Roger’s book Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Visual Pleasure is available in paperback (£15.95) from our friends at Burley Fisher Books, or check Overdrive to see if you can borrow the ebook from your library.
Continue reading “Culture Club: Watching THE VIRGIN SUICIDES by Sofia Coppola”
By Dima Mikhayel Matta
In the Dream House is published by Graywolf Press in the US and Serpent’s Tail in the UK. UK readers can order it in hardback (£14.99), or pre-order the paperback (£9.99, published 1 Oct 2020) at a 10% discount, from Burley Fisher Books.
Continue reading “Culture Club: Reading IN THE DREAM HOUSE by Carmen Maria Machado”
By Irenosen Okojie
You can watch A Place of Rage for $9.99/£8.00 (50% off) via Vimeo on Demand here; thanks to the filmmaker and Kali Films for extending this discounted price for the foreseeable future! Closed captions are available for the film: use the [CC] button on the player to switch them on.
Continue reading “Culture Club: Watching A PLACE OF RAGE by Pratibha Parmar”
By Grace Barber-Plentie. Illustration by Javie Huxley.
The Between Us We Have Everything We Need short film programme was available on Vimeo, from 12pm BST on Friday 14th August 2020 to 12pm BST on Sunday 16th August 2020.
Continue reading “Culture Club: Watching BETWEEN US WE HAVE EVERYTHING WE NEED”
By Cathy Brennan
The Lighthouse is available to rent from Vimeo on Demand via Fixafilm until Thursday 6th August, as part of Film at Lincoln Center Virtual Cinema, to mark the tenth anniversary of the film’s debut. It is available on DVD in the UK from Second Run Films.
Continue reading “Culture Club: Watching THE LIGHTHOUSE by Maria Saakyan”
By Pamela Hutchinson
The Watermelon Woman is available to stream for subscribers of the BFI Player and the Criterion Channel, and via its UK distributor’s Peccadillo Player.
Continue reading “Culture Club: Watching THE WATERMELON WOMAN by Cheryl Dunye”
By Helen de Witt
Sadly, not all the films discussed are available – or available from a single source.
Continue reading “Culture Club: Watching Film History through Women’s Documentaries”