I loved this, Yoshie. Although, it should be noted that *I Shot...* had one
of the most brilliant moments on celluloid, when the guy from the
Motherfuckers describes his group,"We're like a street gang with an
analysis." 

towards a more scary feminism, 
frances

On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:03:23 -0500
 Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

 
> _S.C.U.M. Manifesto_ remains one of the finest literary provocations, on
> a
> par with "A Modest Proposal" in spirit if not in execution.  Valerie
> Solanas deserved a better movie than _I Shot Andy Warhol_.  A film in
> Valerie's spirit should have been directed by someone with a visual
> talent
> of, say, a Paul Leduc or a Pedro Almodovar.  (Better yet, a Luis Bunuel
> of
> _L'age d'or_, but there cannot be another Bunuel, so there's no point in
> hoping.)  The film should have been more magical realist at its Latin
> best
> than psycho-biographical in a tame Anglo fashion of _I Shot Andy Warhol_.

> Grand, sublime, & irresponsible.
> 
> Nowadays, no feminist artist does anything like _S.C.U.M. Manifesto_.
> Everyone is, well, so responsible.  And boring!  You almost think that
> the
> main task of feminism is to reassure men (a) that feminists are not
> man-haters and to analyze (b) how the "social construction of
> masculinity"
> has oppressed men.  Well, both (a) and (b) are part of the truth, but not

> all truths can become manifestos, much less artistic provocations.
> 
> toward free-range chickpeas,
> 
> Yoshie
> 








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