Click here to listen to the interview. Nicole Newnham’s firecracker of a documentary, THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SHERE HITE, rediscovers the author of the 30th bestselling book of all time, who challenged the patriarchy and was rewarded with obscurity. That 1976 book, The Hite Report on Female Sexuality, revolutionized the paradigm of women’s sexual pleasure and, in… Read More »
Bel Powley and Marielle Heller Share THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL
When I spoke with Bel Powely and Marielle Heller on August 3, 2015, the subject was, of course, sex. Their film, THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL, addresses that issues from the first scene, wherein the heroine, 15-year-old Minnie Goetz, proudly tells the audience that she’s just had sex and it was >amazing<. I started… Read More »