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Make Way for Tomorrow. Blatant Ageism in film guide.
Make Way For Tomorrow (MWFT) was added to the America’s National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2010. America’s Film Legacy (2011) by Daniel Eagan …is a reference guide to the most significant films ever made in the United States. … Continue reading
Film critics language
Not that I think that many film critics read my blog but a useful tool for writers about film and age. https://ageingageismdiary.wordpress.com/2015/08/02/language-advice-to-journalists/
THE WINTER GUEST (film reception)
Ever since I compared film critics’ and a group of older women’s views of Le Chat* I have been interested in the way people react to films. Why are some elements of the film not perceived, or registered and what is … Continue reading
The Second Marigold Hotel
“Just because I’m looking at you when you talk, don’t think I’m listening — or even interested.” Maggie Smith to Judy Dench I had a free couple of hours and decided reluctantly to see The Second Exotic Marigold Hotel as a … Continue reading
TATIE DANIELLE (1990) The little old woman
” I am a lonely old woman in the hands of a lunatic.” Tatie Danielle It is difficult to write about Tatie Danielle. A film hard to categorise. It is not black comedy nor satire as it is sometimes described being … Continue reading
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Tagged Ageing, Ageism, anger, beauty salon, bourgeois, care home, carer, dogooders, film reception, flowers, hair, loneliness, nasty old woman, old people incontinence, petit bourgeois, Tatie Danielle
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MAMADRAMA (2001) The Jewish Mother Stereotype
http://www.jewishfilm.org/Catalogue/films/mamadrama.html This will be a very personal view of the documentary Mamadrama: The Jewish Mother in Cinema.(2001). When I arrived from the Middle East and settled in London I was puzzled by the expression “She is such a Jewish Mother”. … Continue reading
Posted in Ageing, Ageism, documentary
Tagged Ageing, Ageism, daughter, documentary, family, grotesque old woman in film, intergeneration, mother and son, mother/daughter, sons and mothers
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MOOLAADE (2004)
I am overwhelmed by the amount of film work I would like to do and am struggling to keep up. I will mention briefly here Ousmane Sembène’s Moolaadé to signpost it for myself for later consideration. It is a film that cannot be … Continue reading
Posted in Ageing, Ageism
Tagged African films, cutting, daughter, daughter-in-law, family, FGM, film reception, intergeneration, Moolaade, mother/daughter, old woman, representation old woman, Sembene, West Africa
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AGEISM AND FILM REVIEWS
I am attending a course on Writing On Film at the Picturehouse Hackney. It is led by Barbara Knorpp and Allan Bairstow. The first session gave me the opportunity of looking at Andre Bazin again. In my youth I used to … Continue reading
Posted in Ageing, Ageism, Conferences and comments
Tagged Ageism, Andre Bazin, bradshaw, critics, film course, reviewers, reviews
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Cultural Gerontology and Films
On the film front the 8th International Conference on Cultural Gerontology was not very exciting for me as opposed to other presentations. SEE: http://ageingageismdiary.wordpress.com The majority of papers on visual representation were about TV programmes none of which were familiar to … Continue reading
NEBRASKA (2013) part 1
In the last few months I have been unable to attend the U3A screenings at the Lexi but this week I managed to see Nebraska. I usually do not comment on films after a first viewing and I thought that … Continue reading
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Tagged Ageing, Ageism, grotesque old woman in film
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SOUS LE SABLE (UNDER THE SAND)
A little while ago Under the Sand (2000) was considered for screening at an event on ageing. I had excluded it from my blog and film group list because Charlotte Rampling was 54 years old when Ozon shot this mystery … Continue reading
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Tagged Ageing, Ageism, daughter-in-law, death, disappearance., grief, haptic frame, Haptic turn, loss, mother-in-law, Ozon, wrinkles
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THE BECOMING OF AGE
I finally had some leisure time during my holidays away from the health concerns and trivial activities that sapped my energies this winter. I delighted in reading Pamela Gravagne book: THE BECOMING OF AGE : cinematic visions if mind body … Continue reading
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The Old Woman and some British Comedies.
Whisky Galore (1949) was shown on the TV at the approach to Xmas. A very male comedy where Georges’ mother, a controlling bigot with no redeeming features, treats her adult son like a naughty child. The part is played by Jean … Continue reading
Have times changed in Hollywood?
Today Pamela Scully tweets “Hollywood ‘Still Refuses to Let Actresses Age at all’ and gives this blog address: http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/09/19/wrinkle-washed-female-faces-in-film-marketing/ In this blog Doug Barry writes about Susan Sontag and quotes her. “The Double Standard of Aging” was published in The Saturday … Continue reading
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Tagged Ageing, Ageism, Hollywood and age, looks, susan sontag
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BAFTA 2013
Against my better judgement I sat down doing my word puzzles while watching the BAFTA awards ceremony. I just could not believe it when I heard that The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel was nominated for best British film and that … Continue reading
Anger at Ageist review. Bradshaw and Quartet.
Oh dear. It is Peter Bradshaw’s ageism again that spurs me back to the blog when I thought I would stop and consider at the end of this year. His review of Quartet reveals, in his critique and language, crass … Continue reading
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Tagged Ageism, ageist reviewer, anger, care home, escapism, Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
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THE MOTHER (2002) Old woman’s sexuality or Thatcher’s Britain?
The film-maker daughter of a friend of mine challenged me the other day. From agreement over Last Tango in Halifax that we both found a well written TV drama, we slid into disagreement and misunderstanding about The Mother (2002). She liked The … Continue reading
Films and demographic changes.
I thought my days of getting angry were over. Not so. I broke my vow of remaining silent in public meetings and spoke out in anger stunning the audience and the panel. It was at the annual Pensioners Forum for … Continue reading
Ageing, Films, Hollywood
How things have changed! On my Facebook’s news page, Aging Studies and AgeUK share a link “Is Hollywood finally growing up?: Films and Old People”. It is an article published on AgeUK website under the lifestyle section. It is thrilling … Continue reading
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Tagged Ageing Studies, AgeUK, christopher tookey, dustin hoffman, Hollywood
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DAVID FINCHER’S GRANDMOTHER
“Help us make a NEW KIND of animated film… one that’s LOUD, VIOLENT and OFFENSIVE TO YOUR GRANDMA.” screams David Fincher’s crowdfunding appeal on http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/624061548/the-goon-movie-lets-kickstart-this-sucker. Please Mr. Fincher enlighten me: what offends your grandma? What offends me, grandmother and great-grandmother … Continue reading
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Tagged Ageism, ageist filmmakers, crowd funding, David Fincher, grandmother, producers, sexist filmmakers
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Hope Springs: Instruction video
My motivation for studying films when I retired was my fascination with the difference of opinions and the heated debates about certain films I experienced during my compulsive film going teens. Now, after 57 years of seeing films, reading reviews … Continue reading
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Tagged Ageing, comedies, counselling, hope springs, late bloomers, Meryl Streep, old couple, old feminist, sex therapy
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Alive and Kicking at the Marigold Hotel
It is good to be able to have a dialogue with another researcher about films and older women. Claire Mortimer in her blog (http://matrons.wordpress.com) looks at old women in British comedies. I commented about Alive and Kicking (1959) and it … Continue reading
TALL DARK STRANGER
The last film of the U3A in Brent at the Lexi for this academic year was Woody Allen’s You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger. The audience showed interest but no one declared that they liked the film: “True to … Continue reading
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Tagged A tall dark stranger, Ageism, death, mother daughter relationship, mother-in-law /son-in-law, supernatural, Woody Allen
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Triviality or ageism?
I went to enjoy Asquith’s silent “Cottage on Dartmoor” with wonderful live piano accompaniment at the NFT yesterday. Seniors’ film matinée. It was worth waiting standing for the doors to open. They did only 5 mins before the screening and there … Continue reading
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ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER LIFE. ANOTHER FILM?
A difficult film, a very difficult film for me. When I saw it at the London Film Festival I disliked it intensely and that was the reaction of at least one member of the audience at the Lexi when I … Continue reading
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Tagged Another Year, counselling, isolation, lasting marriage, loneliness, Mike Leigh, physical ageing
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SOME THOUGHTS ON THE SILVERING SCREEN (part 1)
It is only on holiday that I can engage in serious reading. This time I struggled with Sally Chivers’ Silvering Screen. I only managed to read the Introduction and the First Chapter and therefore I am not entitled to make … Continue reading
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Tagged Ageism, death, intergeneration, old woman, oldwoman/teenager, Pather Panchali, Sally Chivers, silvering screen
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ACTING THEIR AGE
FOR THE LEXI VIEWERS WHO MAY BE EXPECTING A POST ABOUT LEIGH’S ANOTHER YEAR, MY APOLOGIES, I HAVE BEEN EXTREMELY BUSY AND NOW PREPARING MYSELF TO GO ON HOLIDAY. 6th MAY I am back from the stimulating symposium on “Women, … Continue reading
The Grey Pound, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Older Demographic
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has captured the ‘grey pound says Charles Grant in Sight and Sound (May issue, Matinee idol P.9). He proceeds to quote the ex boss of Fox Searchlight Peter Rice “there’s an older audience and we … Continue reading
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Tagged Ageism, best exotic marigold hotel, escapism, older audience, older demographic
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Women, Ageing, and Popular Cinema
Acting their Age POSTER I feel quite excited at the thought of attending a symposium on Women Age and Popular Films. Whereas scholars have written a lot about film and gender, the issue of sexism+ageism has not often been addressed. … Continue reading
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Tagged ageing and feature films, Ageism, representation old woman, women
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Old Age and Feature Films 
ADVANCED STYLE (2014): not a work of art.
Oh dear! what can I say ? In my last post I quoted Bazin about reviews: “Let us say that the ideal would be to be able to help efficiently those we like and to have little influence on the … Continue reading →