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History Lessons (2002)

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Reviews Counted:11

Fresh:3

Rotten:8

Average Rating:4.5/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 70 mins

Genre: Education/General Interest

Theatrical Release:Oct 26, 2001 Limited

Synopsis: Barbara Hammer (NITRATE KISSES) spent most of her 30-year career making experimental films with a strong lesbian identity. Therefore, this historical manipulation is a logical addition to Hammer's... Barbara Hammer (NITRATE KISSES) spent most of her 30-year career making experimental films with a strong lesbian identity. Therefore, this historical manipulation is a logical addition to Hammer's canon. Here, Hammer has taken footage from lesbian history and subverted it using voice over and juxtaposition to create a satiric view of the history of lesbian visibility. Her techniques create a documentary that makes the claim that lesbians were dominating society. Using everything from educational films, newsreels, and stag pictures, HISTORY LESSONS is an interesting study in truth versus reality. [More]

Director: Barbara Hammer

Director: Barbara Hammer
Studio: First Run Features

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12/08/02
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While the film is intermittently fascinating, the big problem here is that nothing is explained and no one is identified.

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12/09/01
Doris Toumarkine
Doris Toumarkine
Film Journal International

An intelligent, satirical presentation of how misdirected the media is in defining lesbians.

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10/29/01
Rachel Gordon
Rachel Gordon
Filmcritic.com

An intelligent, satirical presentation of how misdirected the media is in defining lesbians.

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10/28/01
Rachel Gordon
Rachel Gordon
Filmcritic.com

A one-note experience, more memorable for what it sets out to accomplish than what it actually does.

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10/28/01
Rachel Deahl
Rachel Deahl
Boxoffice Magazine

An intermittently instructive and amusing jumble that might have been seen as daring and 'transgressive' in both form and content if it had been released, say, three decades ago.

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10/26/01
Jonathan Foreman
Jonathan Foreman
New York Post
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The clips themselves are so battered, grainy and sordid that they are more depressing than inspiring.

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10/25/01
Dave Kehr
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Neither a conventional documentary nor a work of complete fiction, Hammer's film constructs a secret history, part imagination and part reality that is both revealing and slyly entertaining.

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10/25/01
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Here Hammer betrays a tiresome attachment to cross-cutting ladyporn with antiquated educational filmstrips, to no real end but snarky giggles.

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10/23/01
Jessica Winter
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