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How a school drama with an all-female cast broke down doors for queer cinema, 90 years ago
Directed by a woman and without a single man in the cast, Mädchen in Uniform marked the way out ahead for queer cinema in its groundbreaking exploration of lesbian desire at a girlsâ boarding school.
16 March 2021
Mädchen in Uniform (1931)
A landmark of interwar European cinema, Leontine Saganâs Mädchen in Uniform (1931) is a remarkable film in many respects â first and foremost in that it was produced at all. Not only was a female filmmaker at the helm (directing an all-female cast, no less), but it is also one of the first truly significant queer films ever made.
Kagemusha (1980)
Released on Blu-ray this week, this magisterial epic of 16th-century Japan was Akira Kurosawaâs great homecoming movie after a decade either working abroad or in the doldrums following the critical drubbing faced by his 1970 film Dodesâkaâden. Backed by George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, it was a return to the jidaigeki (period film) mode of Seven Samurai (1954) and Throne of Blood (1957), albeit now in lavish colour and mounted on a scale that â in the era of CGI â looks ever more awe-inspiring. Itâs something of a companion piece to his subsequent Ran (1985): not directly inspired by Shakespeare as that would be, but Shakespearian in its movement between courtly intrigue and clashes on the battlefield, and especially in its focus on a double/impostor figure. In the Sengoku, or âWarring Statesâ, period, a thief resembling the leader of the Takeda clan becomes a vital decoy after the latter is taken out by a sniper.