{"id":10894,"date":"2022-06-09T11:57:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T16:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/?p=10894"},"modified":"2022-06-09T11:58:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T16:58:18","slug":"a-word-from-our-programmer-6-8-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/a-word-from-our-programmer-6-8-22\/","title":{"rendered":"A WORD FROM OUR PROGRAMMER - 6\/8\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Greetings Cinema friends,

Six months ago, on December 9, 2021, global cinema lost one of its most provocative voices. The first woman to be nominated for Best Director at the Academy Awards, Lina Wertm\u00fcller left behind a fiercely independent legacy of films that weaponized comedy to skewer the status quo and the people that defended it. Next week, we begin our newest entry in the\u00a0Passport<\/em>\u00a0series,\u00a0Love & Anarchy: The Radical Comedies of Lina Wertm\u00fcller.<\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Extravagantly colorful, sexually-charged, and acidicly funny, we present three films\u2014The Seduction of Mimi<\/em><\/strong>, <\/em>All Screwed Up<\/em><\/strong>, <\/em>and Love & Anarchy<\/em><\/strong>\u2014produced in rapid succession from 1972-1974 finding Lina Wertm\u00fcller and global cinema writ large at a charmingly anarchic high. 
Born Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertm\u00fcller von Elgg Spanol von Braueich<\/em> in 1928 in Rome, Lina came of age in the aftermath of Mousolini\u2019s facsist Italy and World War II. As a young artist, she traveled Europe with avant-garde theatre troupes and leftist puppet shows. By the early 60s, Wertm\u00fcller had, quite fittingly, entered into mentorship with il maestro<\/em> himself, Frederico Fellini (working as Assistant Director to 8\u00bd<\/em>), gaining the material support to take her ideas to the screen.  <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Blending sex, farce, and tragedy, Lina Wertm\u00fcller\u2019s cinema was, first and foremost, about her politics. Her films position men especially in love and ideology, (not without some sympathy) as neanderthals. But she challenged the second-wave feminism of her time by rejecting an equality that ignored the intersection of gender and class\u2014shredding both proletarian male-chauvinists as well as the women of the bourgeoisie.

Finally receiving an Academy Honorary Award two years before her death, she paused on stage to reflect on the trophy itself. She said, translated through Isabella Rossellini, that she\u2019d prefer her accomplishments not be celebrated with a small, golden man, opting instead to name her Oscar Anna.<\/em>

Ad absurdum,
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Greetings Cinema friends, Six months ago, on December 9, 2021, global cinema lost one of its most provocative voices. The first woman to be nominated for Best Director at the Academy Awards, Lina Wertm\u00fcller left behind a fiercely independent legacy of films that weaponized comedy to skewer the status quo and the people that defended […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events","category-a-word-from"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10896,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10894\/revisions\/10896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}