{"id":2024293,"date":"2025-09-15T18:52:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2024293"},"modified":"2025-09-15T18:52:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:52:38","slug":"lizzie-borden-on-why-revolutionary-message-of-born-in-flames-is-newly-relevant-that-controversial-viral-clip-and-surviving-harvey-weinsteins-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/lizzie-borden-on-why-revolutionary-message-of-born-in-flames-is-newly-relevant-that-controversial-viral-clip-and-surviving-harvey-weinsteins-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizzie Borden on Why Revolutionary Message of \u2018Born in Flames\u2019 Is Newly Relevant, That Controversial Viral Clip and Surviving Harvey Weinstein\u2019s Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the late 1970s, New York was a mess. Garbage was piling up, rats were everywhere \u2014 in other words, it was the perfect time to make art in cheap lofts and create disruptive social movements like no-wave cinema and punk rock. This was the backdrop against which Lizzie Borden<\/a> set her micro-budget dystopian feminist movie \u201cBorn in Flames<\/a>,\u201d which was released in 1983 after five years of scrappy guerrilla production on the streets of Manhattan.<\/p>\n

For those who might not have caught \u201cBorn in Flames<\/a>\u201d at a retrospective screening \u2014 or for those who saw it back in the \u201980s and don\u2019t remember how far ahead of its time it was \u2014 the Criterion Collection is releasing the restored film on Blu-Ray Tuesday with a commentary track from the director and cast members, an interview with Borden and as her earlier experimental film \u201cRegrouping.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the 40-plus years since, \u201cBorn in Flames<\/a>…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the late 1970s, New York was a mess. Garbage was piling up, rats were everywhere \u2014 in other words, it was the perfect time to make art in cheap lofts and create disruptive social movements like no-wave cinema and punk rock. This was the backdrop against which Lizzie Borden set her micro-budget dystopian feminist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2024294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2024293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lizzie-Borden-on-Why-Revolutionary-Message-of-\u2018Born-in-Flames.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2024293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2024294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}