Sheila McLaughlin
Actor
Sheila McLaughlin (born 1950) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and photographer. She wrote and directed the controversial film, She Must Be Seeing Things (1987). Her debut feature film, Committed (1984), which she co-directed with writer Lynne Tillman, is an experimental narrative of the life of Frances Farmer, shot on a low budget of $45,000. McLaughlin's films have been described as presenting "a grasp of a developing new feminist language of cinema."
Movies7
Movie5.5DramaWanda, a dominatrix who runs an S&M gallery on the Hamburg waterfront, must choose between her lesbian lover and an American trainee.
Movie6.2DramaScience FictionIn near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality remains unfulfilled.
Born in Flames
1983 · 89 votes
Movie10.0CrimeDramaNot to be confused with Luc Besson's film of the same title from the same year. Documentarian Andrew Horn's second narrative feature.
The Big Blue
1988 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaStylized, black and white biography of Frances Farmer by author Lynne Tillman and Sheila McLauglin.
Committed
1984 · 2 votes
Movie8.0An experimental German film
Movie6.0Clonetown 1974 to 1979: a terrorist defector named Charon sits on the edge of oblivion and commentates on the imminent putrification of an abducted car dealer.
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With HOW TO FLY, Bowes abandoned plot entirely, finding other forms of structure. He wanted to show that stories do not have to obsessively organize and explain data, and that television’s hundreds of simultaneous, fragmented narratives – news, fiction, commercials, sports, etc. – had prepared audiences for this new type of structure. — Charles Ruas
How to Fly
1981