“I’m a newspaperman!”: Howard Hawks softened a political satire into a proto-feminist romcom
"His Girl Friday" set the bar for romcoms and gave us a feminist heroine before feminism was cool.

When Black Kelly gets back from New York, she discovers that more has changed than just her hair color while she's been away. Frederic found himself a girlfriend and plans to move. Kurt and Blonde Kelly live together with their one-year-old child. And Patrick's gone. Reunited with the old gang, Black Kelly realizes that life went on during her absence and that things will never be the same...
"His Girl Friday" set the bar for romcoms and gave us a feminist heroine before feminism was cool.
The film seems like an extreme interpretation of the conspiracy theorists that exist in real life. And then, there’s the twist.
The documentary depicts the indigenous people of Mexico with sublime reverence, highlighting a generational harmony with the land.
We chat with Penelope Lawson about her short film, The Dinner Party, her experience founding her own production company, and fun cinema.
Mirrorball is full of passion and love for the medium of cinema and is indeed a fitting love letter to La La Land.