Women Directors

[Marco11 Joined: Nov 29th, 2014 Topics: 3 Posts: 206 View Predictions]

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Pretty self-explanatory? I’m looking to expand my knowledge of women filmmakers and of great films directed by women.
I thought it might interest others too, and that’s why I made a topic out of it.

So anyone who wants to contribute with their knowledge on the theme is very welcome, no matter whether sharing names of ancient pioneer from many decades ago or ‘promising young women’ (lol) of today and tomorrow. Especially artists who are not well known and that others might have not heard of.
Let’s make an instructive thread!

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[JV Joined: Dec 31st, 2019 Topics: 9 Posts: 5413 View Predictions]

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Here are three of my favorites

Kelly Reichardt:

Wendy and Lucy

Certain Women

Old Joy

First Cow

I would watch Old Joy and First Cow back to back, because First Cow is pratically a prequel to Old Joy.

 

Celine Sciamma:

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Tomboy

Water Lillies

 

Lynne Ramsay:

Morvern Callar

We Need to Talk About Kevin

You Were Never Really Here

 

 

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[String Cheese Theory Joined: Aug 16th, 2020 Topics: 8 Posts: 2107 View Predictions]

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Jane Campion, the legend.

An Angel at My Table is one of the most incredible films ever.

Here for the comedies

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[Titanium Joined: Feb 24th, 2013 Topics: 0 Posts: 12 View Predictions]

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Fab idea for a thread! Nice to get some positivity on here.

I second the choices above. I would also like to add –

Dee Rees:
Bessie
Mudbound

Jennifer Kent:
Babadook
Nightingale

Penny Marshall:
Big
League of their Own
Awakenings

Karyn Kusama:
The Invitation
Destroyer
She has one of the shorts in XX too.

XX is a nice little horror anthology film made of 4 short films with female directors – the one directed by St Vincent in particular is splendid!

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[String Cheese Theory Joined: Aug 16th, 2020 Topics: 8 Posts: 2107 View Predictions]

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Also adding Jocelyn Moorhouse, fab Australian director (Proof, Stateless (TV), The Dressmaker, et al).

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[FairWeatherAffair Joined: May 11th, 2018 Topics: 4 Posts: 489 View Predictions]

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Marco, I love you. Awesome thread idea.

I’m pretty certain you’re already very familiar with Akerman, so enough said there. Absolute master of her craft. Everybody should watch three of her biggest, all docs: News from Home, D’Est, and No Home Movie.

My biggest recommendation is, of course, Marguerite Duras. India Song, Baxter, Vera Baxter, and Agatha and the Limitless Readings are all fabulous.

Then you have one of the earliest film explorations of homosexuality in Leontine Sagan’s Mädchen in Uniform, from 1931. Not a perfect movie, but a good one.

And nobody should be allowed to die until they’ve seen at least one film from Angela Schanelec. Really intense dedication to non-commercial narrative forms.

I’ll return to this thread soon to see what others are thinking and to post more thoughts haha

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[kaziz Joined: Nov 10th, 2011 Topics: 3 Posts: 4965 View Predictions]

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Came here to see if Marguerite Duras had been mentioned yet and she has so YAY!

Jane Campion is one of my favorite living directors.

Agnès Varda & Chantal Akerman are legendary.

Lynne Ramsay, Debra Granik, Kelly Reichardt, Leslye Headland, Celine Schiamma, Andrea Arnold, Maren Ade, Claire Denis, Sarah Polley, Dee Rees, Elaine May, Haifaa Al Mansour are incredibly underrated (to varying degrees). Gillian Armstrong, Susanne Bier, Niki Caro, Sally Potter, have made some very average films, but some great ones too.

It’s funny when I think about it that I don’t particularly love what most of the female directors who’ve been nominated at the Oscars have made. Gerwig—Lady Bird was fantastic, Little Women not so much. I don’t like a single Kathryn Bigelow film. Haven’t seen Lina Wertmüller.

And Sofia Coppola—oh boy. The only films of hers I like are the ones with Kirsten Dunst in them lol. Dunst is the best decision Coppola ever made, and frankly I find films like On the Rocks, Lost in Translation, Somewhere to seem like they almost can’t come from the same mind who made The Virgin Suicides. Yes, her aesthetic is very consistent but the quality varies wildly.

FYC:
Everything Everywhere All At Once
The Banshees of Inisherin
Women Talking
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Joyland
RRR
Aftersun

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[Marco11 Joined: Nov 29th, 2014 Topics: 3 Posts: 206 View Predictions]

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Thanks, much appreciated 🙂 So many names I’d only heard of, or not even that!

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[puck05 Joined: Sep 21st, 2019 Topics: 13 Posts: 1569 View Predictions]

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I highly recommend Miranda July.

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[String Cheese Theory Joined: Aug 16th, 2020 Topics: 8 Posts: 2107 View Predictions]

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The film is about a woman who divorces her unfaithful husband at the same time she starts to grow as a poetess, and then once her poems start to gain attention she is diagnosed with breast cancer. 

Poetess? Is that like a poet?

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A woman who is a poet is called a poet.

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