Between the Lines
Joan Micklin Silver / US, 1977 / 102 min.
Joan Micklin Silver’s second feature film wittily portrays relations between the editors of a (formerly) counter cultural weekly in Boston. It’s 1977 and America is witnessing the promise of the 1960s wither away. The female journalists display the most resilience.
They work together, share ideals and sometimes beds, fight for equality and an America free from racism and poverty. These archaic 1960’s ideals seem alive and well among the editors of the Back Bay Mainline, Boston’s alternative weekly.
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Director
Joan Micklin Silver
Production year
1977
Country
US
Original title
Between the Lines
Length
102 min.
Language
English
Subtitles
NONE
Format
DCP
Part of
Liberating Hollywood
In its Liberating Hollywood programme, Eye is screening works by female directors working in the US in the 1970s. Pioneers of the second-wave feminist era, their work has seldom or never been screened in the Netherlands. Highlights of the programme are Wanda (Barbara Loden) and Girlfriends (Claudia Weill), the inspiration for Lena Dunham’s series Girls.
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