Tag: Women in film

Debra Garnik returns with this deeply intelligent, complex, emotional film, adapted by Granik and her screenwriting partner, Anne Rosellini, from the novel My Abandonment by…

Honeymoon is an underrated science fiction thriller/horror, which needs more attention. The film is directed by Leigh Janiak as her feature film directorial debut. As…

So iconic, wonderful, inspiring, a treasure for all film-lovers, Mary Pickford might well be the most important woman in the history of cinema. So varied,…

Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone takes place in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, where teenage Ree (Jennifer Lawrence) is trying to provide for her household: her…

Clio Barnard’s follow-up to the brilliant The Selfish Giant, is the psychological drama Dark River, which deals with the effects of post traumatic stress disorder,…

Reflections, is an astonishing, stunning 2D animated film composed of approximately 1,100 individual drawings. It’s an absolute delight to watch, and will leave the viewer awestruck….

Creswick is a compelling and haunting horror film, playing on our fears of memory. The film follows a young woman, Sam, who has returned to…

This quirky short animated film is about a young women who is insecure and self-conscious about her passion for diving. What the diver does, and…

Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar is a film that is quite unexpected and unusual, this isn’t a criticism of the film but rather praise. The film…

Pea Pod is a hilarious short which is amazing in the fact that the film’s cast and crew was made up of 100% women with…

Throughout history people have always been searching for a perfect place. Their own slice of Eden. However, the question should be whether we can find…

Persepolis is a perfect example of how animated films are not just for children, but can be aimed towards a more mature, adult audience. It…

Many of us have fallen on hard times, trying to make our pennies stretch until the end of the month, worrying about how we will…

There is nothing quite like the 1975 domestic drama Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. A three-hour epic, that follows the life of mother,…