52 Films Directed By Women: 8. AMOUR FOU (Director: Jessica Hausner)
Writers usually men - often tell us that women cant do comedy, an accusation that is the product of selective amnesia. Mae West, …
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52 Films Directed By Women: 7. BATTLES (Director: Isabelle Tollenaere)
I dont know if Battles, a feature length documentary by the Belgian director Isabelle Tollenaere, qualifies as a movie. It is thre…
52 Films Directed By Women: 6. I DON’T BELIEVE IN ANARCHY (Directors: Natalia Chumakova, Anna Tsyrlina)
I have never written a song out of kindness not once Yegor Letov (10 September 1964 to 19 February 2008) How much do you know ab…
52 Films Directed By Women: 5. JANIS: LITTLE GIRL BLUE (Director: Amy J. Berg)
Janis Joplin (1943-1970) was a singer of immense talent. Yet she didnt discover that she could sing until she was seventeen. A reb…
52 Films Directed By Women: 4. ANDERSWO [Anywhere Else] (Director: Ester Amrami)
Anderswo (Anywhere Else) is an engaging comedy about family and relationships from Israeli-born co-writer-director Ester Amrami. I…
52 Films Directed By Women: 3. PETTING ZOO (Director: Micah Magee)
Im only three films into watching 52 films directed by women and I have seen my first modern masterpiece. Ladies and gentlemen, I …
52 Films Directed By Women: 2. SUFFRAGETTE (Director: Sarah Gavron)
When you undertake to watch fifty-two films directed by women in fifty-two weeks, you expect to make some discoveries. These may b…
52 Films Directed By Women: 1. MISS MEADOWS (Director: Karen Leigh Hopkins)
A recent Twitter hashtag invited viewers to watch and by implication celebrate fifty-two films directed by women over a twelve m…
Film Review: Palio - A Two Horse Race
When is a horse race like sex? When it is ninety seconds long, you can end up with a broken leg, and the winner could be rider-les…
Film Review: THE SECOND MOTHER (Que Horas ela volta?) – Maid of honour
You know when you are fully immersed in a drama when a breakage on screen startles you. In director Anna Muylaerts The Second Moth…
