Desert Hearts (#902) Nico Mastorakis Kaneto Shindo's Onibaba is in

Kaneto Shindo's Onibaba is in part a modern parable on consumerism

and behind-the-scenes footage

now a recluse working for a women’s crisis hot-line

and sound recordist Tu Duu-chih

and The Silence of the Lambs

Desert Hearts (#902) Nico Mastorakis Kaneto Shindo's Onibaba is inDonna Deitchs swooning and sensual first narrative feature, Desert Hearts, was groundbreaking upon its release in 1985: a love story about two women, made entirely independently, on a shoestring budget, by a woman. In this 1959 set film, adapted from a beloved novel by Jane Rule, straitlaced East Coast professor Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver) arrives in Reno to file for divorce but winds up catching the eye of someone new, the free spirited young Cay