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Tag: female directors
Beginners Guide to Writer & Director Carol Morley
Carol Morley is ah-mazing and you can read all about her career so far here in my ‘Beginners Guide to…’ at Film Inquiry!
A Year With Women – Identity in 4 Films
Over the past year watching one film a week by women (52 films by women), I watched a bigger range of diverse, progressive and interesting films than I have done previously in my life. So much so, I am doing the 52 Films challenge for a second year in a row. To celebrate International Women’s Day […]
Female Directors: Documentaries You Should See
Disclaimer: I really, really hate that I still need to put ‘female directors’ at the top of this post, because the default for a director is overwhelmingly male. Okay, that said… Though the film industry is notorious for being male dominated, female directors tend to fare ever so slightly better in the documentary industry. Since […]
LFF Round-up: The Levelling
In 2014, intense rainfall flooded the farmlands of Somerset, UK. Land became waterlogged, crops were destroyed – buildings, bridges and homes were washed away in the flooding. In true British form, we ‘kept calm and carried on’, but the effects of the floods can still be seen in the landscape today. Hope Dickson Leach’s first […]
As I Open My Eyes: Not Your ‘Average’ Coming of Age Film
Farah, a curious and bright eyed eighteen year old on the cliff edge of adulthood, wants to be a singer. Her mother, worldweary Hayett, wants her to study and become a doctor. Whilst the two of them battle it out in an age old story between mother and daughter, the country they love is being […]
50 Films of the 21st Century (an alternative list)
BBC Culture released a list of the (alleged) top 100 films of the 21st Century yesterday, and it wasn’t terrifically received by most people. Perhaps it’s to do with the fact that only 9 of the 100 films were directed by women, or that it placed Inception higher than Finding Nemo, or that The Wolf of Wall […]
The Closer We Get (Karen Guthrie, 2015): Unflinchingly Honest
Five minutes into The Closer We Get, you’ll feel fairly confident that you know where this story is going.
Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller, 2015): Real Talk
Writer/Director Marielle Heller’s debut feature film Diary of a Teenage Girl will, I hope, be regarded as a significant coming of age film for girls everywhere for a very long time. It also happens to be the first in a long list of 52 films, one a week, by women directors that I watched. I could […]
The Falling: Being a Teenage Girl Sucks
1. Do you want to watch a film that deals with the inherent emotional and physical issues of being a teenage girl, suppression of emotion, feminism and female friendship whilst simultaneously channeling David Lynch, Nicholas Roeg and Carrie in terms of aesthetic, atmosphere and creepiness.