“Madeline’s Madeline” and the Exploitation of Actresses
This emotional, frightening, and dreamlike story examines the ways actresses are exploited in the name of art.

Poland 1939, shortly before invasion of the German troops. To save their belongings from the Nazis, the Jewish family Diamant transfers them to their 17-year-old catholic maid Fusia. In return Fusia provides them with food until the ghetto is dissolved, and then hides 13 people in her loft for over two years. However, as the front approaches and two German nurses take quarter in Fusias apartment everything seems to be in vain.
This emotional, frightening, and dreamlike story examines the ways actresses are exploited in the name of art.
You'd better buckle up, pack spare underwear, & maybe lay off the drinking for a night, for a gnarly ride in New York!
Lee Daniels’s Billie Holiday biopic The United States vs. Billie Holiday was released on February 26th, 2021, and my immediate reaction to it was one of discomfort.
"His Girl Friday" set the bar for romcoms and gave us a feminist heroine before feminism was cool.
This list was made with the intention of celebrating comedic craft and a love of seeing more women of colour and newcomers on the scene.
The documentary depicts the indigenous people of Mexico with sublime reverence, highlighting a generational harmony with the land.