Category: Director
Femme Filmmakers Festival 2017: Day Six Program
Femme Filmmakers Festival — Day Six Program — Wednesday 6th September 2017 Welcome to the second half of the Femme Filmmakers Festival. Day Six has…
Watch: Margaret Tait’s 4 Minutes Of A Portrait of Ga
This four-minute portrait of the filmmaker’s mother combines the texture of 1970s-color-saturated found footage with an oddly avant-garde structure. The editing rhythms are distinctly recognizable…
Femme Filmmakers Festival 2017: Day Five Program
Femme Filmmakers Festival — Day Five Program — Tuesday 5th September 2017 Among the recommended shorts and features on Day Five of the Femme Filmmakers…
Directors’ Weekend Catch-Up: The Beguiled
Sofia Coppola’s latest feature, The Beguiled, carries the theme of loneliness, which was present in her previous work like The Virgin Suicides and Lost In…
Femme Filmmakers Festival 2017: Day Four Program
Welcome to Day Four of the Femme Filmmakers Festival, and it shows no sign of slowing down. Today’s showings include a brand new retro-comedy-horror, a…
A Million Miles Away: Jennifer Reeder Talks Filmmaking Past, Present, And Future
Beautifully filmed, A Million Miles Away is an ensemble film that delivers with so much intimacy and thought in spite of the many cast members….
Welcome to The Bling Ring Generation
Originally published over at On The Screen Reviews Before Hollywood discovered the benefit of locking their doors when leaving town, a group of gutsy, celebrity-obsessed…
Stop-Motion, Live-Action, And Speed Dating With Filmmaker Meghann Artes
Discovering such mini marvels as Speed Dating, written and directed by Meghann Artes, is not only tipping the iceberg of new film ventures, but also…
Maren Ade’s Latest Film Toni Erdmann Is Both Long And Alluring
When the movie Toni Erdmann entered our lives last May we assumed without agenda this was about a father’s relationship with his (grown-up) daughter. Which…
Femme Filmmakers Festival 2017: Day Three Program
Femme Filmmakers Festival — Day Three Program — Sunday 3rd September 2017 So here we are a Day Three of the Femme Filmmakers Festival already….
Filmmaker Mary Neely Talks Influences, Encouragement, And Her Short Film The Dresser
I saw the short film The Dresser about 2 years ago, and wrote about it as part of the Made by Women series. Having watched…
Watch: Saranne Bensusan’s 12 Minute Short Film Mano a Mono
Roughly twenty years is probably enough time for most audience members, if not this particular critic, to forget one of the most famous twists in…
Lost in Translation: Visual Appreciation
“I just don’t know what I’m supposed to be.” In her sophomore smash hit, Sofia Coppola introduces us to a familiar world within the realms…
Femme Filmmakers Festival 2017: Day Two Program
Femme Filmmakers Festival — Day Two Program — Saturday 2nd September 2017 The Femme Filmmakers Festival flies into its second day, and with it the…
