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• Sisters With Transistors

  Electronic Music's Unsung Heroines

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  "Lisa Rovner’s Sisters With Transistors is an unapologetically geeky look at the female pioneers of early electronic music which veers fearlessly into the experimental end of the knob-twiddling spectrum." Wendy Ide, The Observer. Also available to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tokyo idols

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  "With this fascinating and troubling documentary, Kyoko Miyake investigates the Japanese phenomenon of very young female pop singers, known as idols, who cater to a passionate fan base of grown men." Leah Pickett, Chicago Reader. Also available to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fanny

  the Right to Rock

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  "Heavily punctuated with performance clips, the film gives the kind of visual and aural testimony that mere history books cannot. To see and hear June shredding on lead guitar, to listen to their socially relevant lyrics and observe a group of women…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Joan Baez

  I Am a Noise

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  "I Am a Noise, a career-spanning documentary, makes it clear that the folk singer was one of the most important political musicians of her generation." Sarah M. Seltzer, The Nation

• Mavis!

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  "This film deserves that exclamation mark in the title." Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian.

• Miss Sharon Jones!

  Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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  'Initially dismissed by a record exec as “too black, too short, too old,” to succeed, dynamic R&B powerhouse Sharon Jones wasn’t about to let that, or anything else, stop her. She reacted likewise to pancreatic cancer, the year-long battle at the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Janis

  Little Girl Blue

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  "A feast of archive footage and audio recordings takes us on an engrossing journey from folk clubs to rock festival stages, while friends and relatives remember the force of nature that was Joplin with a song between her teeth." Mark Kermode, The…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Grace Jones

  Bloodlight and Bami

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  "The documentary is a feat of portraiture and a restoration of humanity. It's got the uncanny, the sublime, and, in many spots, a combination of both." Wesley Morris, The New York Times. Also available to stream on Hoopla.

• Chavela

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  "More than a female singing cowboy, Vargas was ranchera incarnate, whether singing the material of drinking companion Jose Alfredo Jimenez or her own cathartic cries from the heart. The film is a fond but clear-eyed tribute." Michael Phillips,…Read moreRead more of this annotation