New LJ community

[firecat]

12films_poc is a spinoff from 50books_poc. The community challenges you to watch and review 12 films written and/or directed by people of color.

This will be easy for me because I watch so many Japanese, Chinese, and Hong Kong movies already.

Comparisons are not the point, but the OH and I were talking about this community and he pointed out it would be (more of) a challenge for us to watch 12 films written and/or directed by women. Then we thought about watching 12 films that pass the Bechdel Rule.*

The Bechdel Rule states that a movie
1. It has to have at least two women in it,
2. Who talk to each other,
3. About something other than a man.
Here is the Dykes to Watch Out For strip in which it appeared.

Comments

films by PoC

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

if anime and jdrama count, this would be incredibly easy for me; i watch way more than 12 in a year. :)

otherwise it would be very hard, because right now i am not even watching many movies written/directed by beige people, unless they're animation. somehow i don't seem to have the spoons for 1.5 hours of real life visual stimulation.

i don't feel that finding movies that pass the bechdel rule has become any easier over the years, or is that just my lack of general exposure talking?

Re: films by PoC

[firecat]

It's not any easier if you are talking big-budget general-distribution movies, IMO, and possibly not if you are talking Cannes-type movies either.