Thelma & Louise (1991)
(Ridley Scott, US 1991, 130 min., DCP)
Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon hit the road for high action adventure as the unstoppable Thelma and Louise, shattering typical gender roles and rules of the road movie genre. Callie Khouri’s first screenplay takes the film’s only Oscar win, out of six nominations. Thelma & Louise was her statement about what breaking free might look like—a fantasy that just happened to be funny, gritty, violent, and awfully realistic-looking. Ridley Scott steps out of his usual sci-fi film genres and creates a landmark film that has become a cultural phenomenon. In 2016 Thelma & Louise was inducted into the Library of Congress National Film Registry, finding it “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” This is certainly an appropriate film to screen on March 8, International Women’s Day.