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YouTube Preview ImageTO ALL THE SATC2-haters out there, to you I say: You’ve missed the point. I LOVED the new Sex and the City movie, and I’m not afraid to say it. [click to continue…]

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Sounds of Sun and Sisterhood

by paige on May 26, 2010

From Poppy de Villeneuve's "You Are Everywere"

PROLIFIC PHOTOGRAPHER AND FILMMAKER Poppy de Villeneuve is at it again. Back in March we highlighted her first film for T , the New York Times style magazine. (All five parts of that film, The Park, are here.) Now she’s  released another, You Are Everywhere, a stripped down, meditative, surprisingly intimate view of last year’s Coachella music festival. Like much of Poppy’s work, the film seems deeply influenced by Richard Avedon’s photographic collection, In the American West (one of my favorite art books, as it happens). Enjoy this poetic film, and for more on Poppy and her influences check out our profile of her and sister Daisy, an accomplished illlustrator.

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Home Sweet Home (Video)

by paige on March 24, 2010

'Thelma and Louise' is on my must-rewatch list this spring

I‘VE BEEN TRAVELING, a lot, lately, and can’t wait to settle back into what passes for a normal routine back on the home front. But my husband’s going to be out of town for work on and off for a while. Can you guess what that means? It’s all about control. [click to continue…]

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Do Good By & With Your Sisters

by paige on October 11, 2009

ce3W E LOVE IT WHEN readers, unprompted, send emails or leave comments about the ways they’re celebrating sisterhood, of any stripe, in their own lives. The communication we got from reader Laela last week was particularly exciting, as it combined three things we absolutely love: cinema, sisterhood, and doing something for women in need.

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Sister-Flick: ‘The Duchess’

by paige on July 17, 2009

Keira Knightley and Hayley Atwell in 'The Duchess'

Keira Knightley and Hayley Atwell in 'The Duchess'

ISN’T IT GREAT (and rare) when your husband (or any other guy in your life) chooses a smart chick flick for movie night? My movie-loving husband surprised me with The Duchess last week, though had he really known what it was about, I’m not sure he would have picked it. [click to continue…]

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Sundance SisFlix–UPDATED

by paige on January 15, 2009

LEGENDARY ACTIVIST LAWYER William Kunstler is now the subject of a documentary, William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, premiering at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, which opened today in Park City, Utah. This is no ordinary biography, though. The film is directed and produced by two of Kunstler’s four daughters. Sisters Emily and Sarah Kunstler, who were teenagers when their father died, say that “Making this film has been a magical way of bringing him back to life.” [click to continue…]

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Watch This With Your Sisters: Mamma Mia!

by paige on January 9, 2009

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I MAY BE alone in having missed the Mamma Mia! phenomenon. Though I vaguely recall seeing the now-iconic poster in every city I visited over the last few years, and I knew the film came out last year, I guess I didn’t get just how big a deal the show–and the film–were. So when the H (that’s my husband) put it in our Netflix queue, my reaction was a subdued, “Oh yeah, I wanted to see that,” and I moved on to any number of the other myriad things that clutter up my (ever-diminishing) brain space. As it turns out, I was missing out.
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YouTube Preview ImageTHE H (AS I refer to my darling husband) and I have a serious Netflix habit. We’re movie-lovers with limited local theatrical options, not to mention no cable TV, so we are dependent upon the mail to bring us our entertainment. For a few months now, one of the red envelopes we’ve had lurking around the house contained a film that the H rented on the advice of a movie-savvy friend, who swore it was the best movie he saw last year.

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Our Best-Laid Plans, or: When the Ice-Man Cometh

by paige on December 21, 2008

Our friend's horse at play in the icy aftermath

Our friend

IT WASN’T SUPPOSED to be quite like this. We were supposed to launch this little project, and gather steam week by week, enticing our readers with more and more tales of sisterly devotion (or dysfunction.) Three weeks in, we felt pretty good–you were reading; discussions were happening; topics we hadn’t thought to cover arose spontaneously and took on their own lives. Week 4 was supposed to be even better–we had momentum, we thought.

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2 New Sisflix (Plus Serendipity)

by paige on December 12, 2008

Elizabeth Peña, John Leguizamo and Debra Messing. (Overture Pictures photo)

I WAS ALL set to write a post alerting my movie-loving virtual sisters to two films opening this weekend, with sisterhood figuring prominently in the storytelling, when an unexpected email arrived. It came from another sisterhood (and brotherhood) of my life: my graduate-school alumni group. A fellow alumna was asking everyone on the alumni mailing list to support a movie she was involved in producing…a movie opening this weekend…a movie I was just sitting down to write about. [click to continue…]

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