Tag: directed by women
Documentary Review – Mommy Dead and Dearest
A mother is supposed to take care of their child through any sickness, and on the surface this seemed to be the case with mother Dee…
Lina Wertmüller & Her Frames of Rebellion
Lina Wertmüller will open your mind, make you laugh, wince, and, at some point, probably piss you off. She was a force in 20th Century filmmaking, and the likes of Jane Campion, Sophia Coppola, Kathryn Bigelow and Greta Gerwig owe her a huge abbracciare for the path she carved through the male-dominated jungle of film directing.
Direct Like a Woman: Great Films Made by Female Filmmakers
What better way to celebrate International Women’s Day than to sit down and watch some excellent films directed by some extremely talented women. This is a…
For Your Consideration: Wonder Woman, Best Picture
Wonder Woman, the film, mercifully ticks all the big screen entertainment boxes here. Gracefully progressing from one crucial sequence to the next, the comic book…
Free To Watch On MUBI Now: 7 Movies You Haven't Seen
The undiscovered world of film for many of you will include the movie on demand website MUBI. This is more than just a streaming service….
Women Film Critics Circle Honor Angelina Jolie's Foreign Language Film 'First They Killed My Father'
The Women Film Critics Circle (or WFCC) are the big wigs of the female critics association of women critics. A group of women writers, scholars,…
More Innovation And Inspiration With The Women Film Critics Circle Nominations
Forgiving them for not updating their website since last year’s roll of honor, the choices by this cluster of film-minded women from all over the…
Elena Beuca Discusses Her Directorial Debut 'D-Love' And The Inspiration Behind It
Elena Beuca‘s directorial feature debut D-Love is a poignant portrayal of her own personal journey, or at least a semi-biographical motion picture depicting a very…
Review: Dee Rees' Essential Mudbound
Mudbound is many things at once: A demonstration of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, a portrait of racial tensions in rural America, and a universal telling of…
Why It Is Important To Have A Femme Filmmakers Festival
I recently began writing my first screenplay. My story, which centers on a male protagonist, is not only something I love to tell, but I’ve…
Anna Kerrigan And Minhal Baig Dominate Roll Of Honor At Femme Filmmakers Festival
Well, the four other members of the jury and I debated over the eight short films in the ten categories as described in the prior…
Femme Filmmakers Festival 2017: Roll Of Honor
To close this magnificent #FemmeFilmFest I have assembled a small jury of film-lovers to honor a select few of these outstanding new short films. There…
Femme Filmmakers Festival 2017: Day Ten Program
Femme Filmmakers Festival — Day Ten Program — Sunday 10th September 2017 And there we have it. The final day of the Femme Filmmakers Festival…
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic #33
Agnès Varda. A name synonymous with a film revolution still, astonishingly, under-recognized. A name that reminds us of rich, fluent, and oh-so varied cinema. Stayed…
