* Hardcover: UK: Nick Caves Bunny Munro: all mouth and trousers Sep 20, 2009
According to Nick Cave, the two main influences for The Death of Bunny Munro, his second novel, are the Gospel According to St Mark and the Scum Manifesto by militant feminist Valerie Solanas, a woman perhaps more famous for shooting Andy Warhol ... Whatever, the late Valerie Solanas would almost certainly have approved. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Movies about radicals have not always had a radical effect on viewers Sep 6, 2009
Mary Harron s sneaky, cheeky portrait of Valerie Solanas (Lili Taylor), the Factory hanger-on who, one evening in 1968, pumped a bullet into her mentor-tormentor Andy Warhol. The movie evenhandedly views Solanas as tough, funny, insightful, and bonkers - her anger toward men fueling both homicidal rage and a guerrilla feminism that continues to echo today. (Boston Globe)
Room of Her Own May 25, 2009
Housewives didn t clamor to join Valerie Solanas s SCUM Society for Cutting Up Men which was never more than a treehouse club. Deeper social currents were at work, so that what might have receded into the realm of curious sociology as Simone de Beauvoir s 1949 effort had became instead a mainstream movement populated by millions of average women. (The American Conservative)
International Women's Day Film Festival set to return to Boston Mar 1, 2009
The Brattle festival attracted a steady procession of visiting women filmmakers, including Allison Anders, director of "Gas, Food, Lodging" and "Mi Vida Loca," one of the first mainstream films about Latina women in Los Angeles; Sofia Coppola, who directed "Lost in Translation" and "The Virgin Suicides"; and Mary Harron, who directed "I Shot Andy Warhol," based on the true story of '60s radical Valerie Solanas who, in fact, did. And their programming reflected their own quirky curatorial... (Boston Globe)
