Born in Flames

Democratic socialism will not save us. Inspired by Marxist writings on women's issues (Borden is not specific about which ones), this film posits a democratic socialist United States and explores the idea of an incomplete revolution. It's interesting to note that…

Sally Jane Black

You could just scroll a feminist call to revolutionary action across a blank screen with no soundtrack at all, and I think I'd give it 5 stars. It gets me pumped. It makes me happy to know someone made a film about this. It makes me feel not so alone and powerless to see so…

Sally Jane Black

An angry, funny, aggressively rhetorical and didactic metadoc, Peter Watkins-style, about an illusion of socialist utopianism deployed as a pacifying distraction of the patriarchy! A totally tantalizing idea I'd never given much attention to, but here we see multiple…

matt lynch

Not since Deep Space Nine has a film (I feel DS9 is a film) dreamt of a better future and then relentlessly critiqued that future. It’s exhausting and invigorating. We’re never done. Insane to me that this was filmed guerrilla style inside Reagan’s America. The people on…

Branson Reese

this pulls off the dreamiest balance of infuriating and hopeful. I wish more filmmaking assumed the world was different than it was - even if it not necessarily a better world. the rage is palpable; the conversations are prescient. I do not want to reduce women to outfits,…

fran hoepfner

"The oppressed have a right to violence." There are so many truths in this film worth celebrating, the few things it fails at are that much more frustrating. The oppressed have a right to violence. The exploited have a right to rise up under capitalism. We have a…

Sally Jane Black

this is not a white man's revolution

dselwyns

Almost 40 years on, Born in Flames remains one of the most radical and audacious offerings of American independent cinema, so much so that it truly needs to be seen to be believed.

Will Steele

oh my god this is so PUNK!!!!! feels like a late-60s godard film if godard was a new yorker whose socialism was informed by intersectional feminism. i know this is based in an alternate universe but in my mind it is a documentary. radio rules, baby!!!!

nora