The Hollywood Theatre has a very special way of celebrating Women’s History Month: Throughout March, its programming will include more than a dozen films about and directed by women, the majority of which were chosen in partnership with local organizations like Brown Girl Rise, PICA, and the POW Film Fest. From beloved comedy Legally Blonde (screening Fri March 8) to Hollywood classic All About Eve (Sat March 2 & Sun March 3) to 2017 Oscar winner A Fantastic Woman (Mon March 4), this year’s lineup features movies about women reckoning with patriarchal control, overcoming bias, and redefining womanhood on their own terms.
To learn more about the inspiration behind Feminist March and highlights of this year’s festival, the Mercury interviewed co-curators Alison Hallett (who, full disclosure, was formerly the Mercury’s arts editor) and Anthony Hudson (AKA Carla Rossi, Portland’s premiere drag clown and the host of the Hollywood’s Queer Horror series, which examines “horror’s relation to queerness and what it means to identify with the monster”).