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Restored by HFPA: “Born in Flames” (1983)

“This unruly, unclassifiable film – perhaps the sole entry in the hybrid genre of radical-lesbian-feminist sci-fi vérité – premiered two years into the Reagan regime, but its fury proves as bracing today as it was back when this country began its inexorable shift to the right,” wrote Melissa Anderson of The Village Voice about Born in Flames in 2016 after the film’s restoration premiered at the Anthology Film Archives. Indie director Lizzie Borden, in her feature film debut, made a radical film that took five years to shoot and cost $40,000.