History Lessons

Name: History Lessons
Genre: History, Documentary, Adult, Adult
Released: October 26, 2001
Duration: 65 min
Rating: 41

2001

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First Run Features | Release Date: October 26, 2001

Summary: A documentary exploration of lesbian images from 1896 until 1969.

Director: Barbara Hammer

Genre(s): History, Documentary, Adult, Adult

Runtime: 65 min

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Dennis Harvey

Offers radical sexual politics in a jester's surprise package of impudent humor and Situationist-style found-footage monkeyshines. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

Neither a conventional documentary nor a work of complete fiction, Hammer's film constructs a secret history, part imagination and part reality that is both revealing and slyly entertaining. Read full review

Merle Bertrand

The novelty of watching vintage lesbian footage just for the sake of watching eventually wears off. This underscores the idea that there is such a concept as too much of a good thing. Read full review

Jami Bernard

A collage without context. Read full review

Dave Kehr

Unfortunately the clips themselves are so battered, grainy and sordid that they are more depressing than inspiring. Read full review

Jonathan Foreman

The result is an intermittently instructive and amusing jumble that might have been seen as daring and "transgressive" in both form and content if it had been released, say, three decades ago. Read full review

Jessica Winter

Hammer betrays a tiresome attachment to cross-cutting ladyporn with antiquated educational filmstrips, to no real end but snarky giggles. Read full review

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