Friday, September 15, 2017

The Love Witch (USA: Anna Biller, 2016)




The Love Witch (USA: Anna Biller, 2016: 120 mins)

Anderson-Moore, Oakley. "The Love Witch: If You Aren't Using Style as Substance, You're Doing it Wrong." No Film School (November 16, 2016)

Cleaver, Sarah Kathryn, Cathy Lomax and Mary Wild. "Fashion Films Episode 7: Make-up & Magic with Cathy Lomax." Projections (May 1, 2019) ["Sarah and Mary welcome special guest artist, gallerist, PHD scholar and former make-up artist Cathy Lomax to talk about make-up, style and surface in Anna Biller’s extraordinary 2016 film The Love Witch. The three discuss their favourite make-up moments in film, styles of female power and Lomax’s film diaries. "]

Ehrlich, David. "The Love Witch: Anna Biller’s Technicolor Throwback Is a Spellbinding Feminist Delight." IndieWire (November 8, 2016)

Erbland, Kate. "5 Tips For Making a Badass Feminist Movie From the Director of The Love Witch." IndieWire (November 18, 2016)

Gibson, Marion. "The Love Witch: A film about the perversities of desire that will soon be a cult feminist classic." The Conversation (March 8, 2017)

Heron, Christopher. "A Woman Constructing Her World: Anna Biller Interview (The Love Witch)." The Seventh Art (April 5, 2017) ["American independent filmmaker Anna Biller discusses her latest film, The Love Witch (2016), which investigates gender and psychology through the prisms of love and witchcraft. Following Viva (2007) and her preceding short films, the aesthetic of The Love Witch is a bricolage of different formalist reference points found across the writing, performance, sets, music and more. Through this unique world building, Biller explores the underlying narcissistic personality of the complex main character, Elaine, as well as a means to explore notions of fantasy, desire, patriarchal structures, craft, and meta-level symbolism, among its many themes. We discuss these components of the film, its reception, critical misunderstandings of cinema history, and the realities of making films as a woman."]

Kenny, Glenn. "The Love Witch." Roger Ebert (November 11, 2016)

The Love Witch Critics Round Up (Ongoing Archive)

Macfarlane, Steve and David M. Mullen. "The Love Witch." American Cinemtographer #74 (2016) ["Cinematographer M. David Mullen, ASC speaks with journalist Steve Macfarlane to discuss his work in The Love Witch, a stylish feminist homage to 1950s horror films."]

Morgan, Kim. "April Sight and Sound: Anna Biller." Sunset Gun (April 16, 2017)

Phillips-Carr, Chelsea. "Visually Mesmerizing, The Love Witch Could Use More Fire Power Behind Its Spell." Pop Matters (May 2, 2017)

Prime, Samuel B. "The Love Witch (Anna Biller, 2016): Ahistorical Emulation & Other Curses." LA Ciné Salon (November 11, 2016)

Tedesco, Kailey. "The Love Witch is the Kitschy, Hedonistic, Feminist Film You Need to See." Luna Luna (December 15, 2016)


LOVE WITCH TRAILER from Anna Biller on Vimeo.












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