Hex Appeal: Cinema’s Baddest Witches (Practical Magic, The Craft, The Witches of Eastwick)
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It’s that spooky time of year and Practical Magic’s 25th anniversary. So this week we take a whistlestop tour through witch movie history to our final destination: the 90s (cinema’s hexiest decade?).
References
‘Screaming, Flying, And Laughing: Magical Feminism’s witches in contemporary film, television and novels’ by Kimberly Ann Wells
‘Witches, “bitches” or feminist trailblazers? The Witch in Folk Horror Cinema’ by Chloe Germaine Buckley
‘“We are the weirdos”: how witches went from evil outcasts to feminist heroes’ by Anne T. Donahue for The Guardian
‘Magical Women, Witches & Healers’, Frames Cinema Journal, issue 16
The Evolution of Black Witches on Screen
‘How Hollywood Has Failed Black Witches’ by BreAnna Bell for Variety
‘Celebrating the magic of black witchiness in entertainment’ by Claire Lawrence for offcultured.com
‘Thirstory: The Real Witches of Hollywood’ by Mitchell Nugent for Interview
George Miller on directing The Witches of Eastwick
Cher on The Witches of Eastwick
Rachel True on The Craft
‘The Real Curse in Practical Magic is Heterosexuality’ by Natalie Adler for Vice
Film Pharmacy
Ikiru (1952) dir. by Akira Kurosawa
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011) dir. by David Gelb
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