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06/06/08
History Lessons (2002)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:3
Rotten:8
Average Rating:4.5/10
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... [More]
Director: Barbara Hammer
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12/08/02
While the film is intermittently fascinating, the big problem here is that nothing is explained and no one is identified.
12/09/01
An intelligent, satirical presentation of how misdirected the media is in defining lesbians.
10/29/01
An intelligent, satirical presentation of how misdirected the media is in defining lesbians.
10/28/01
A one-note experience, more memorable for what it sets out to accomplish than what it actually does.
10/28/01
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.
10/26/01
Top CriticThe clips themselves are so battered, grainy and sordid that they are more depressing than inspiring.
10/25/01
Top CriticNeither 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.
10/25/01
Here Hammer betrays a tiresome attachment to cross-cutting ladyporn with antiquated educational filmstrips, to no real end but snarky giggles.
10/23/01
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