The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women (Alicia Malone's Movie History of Women in Entertainment) (Birthday Gift for Her)

by Alicia Malone

Overview

Alicia Malone’s Take on Influential Women in Film!

“Once again Alicia Malone champions women filmmakers, opening the floodgates to a great new wave of female voices and creative vision.”―Maria Giese, filmmaker and activist

#1 Bestseller in Movies & Video Guides & Reviews

With the success of the Wonder Woman movies and the results following the outcry of the #MeToo movement, now is the time to highlight the female influences in film history previously left unheard! 

The voices of powerful women in old Hollywood—told. You may have heard the term “male gaze,” coined in the 1970s, about how art and entertainment have been influenced by the male’s perspective. What about the opposite? Women have been making movies since the very beginning of cinema. In The Female Gaze, Alicia Malone explores the ideas, thoughts, and views we learn from women from behind the scenes. What does the world look like through the “female gaze”?

Learn about women who changed the world. Discover brilliantly talented and accomplished women directors, both world renowned and obscure, who have shaped the film industry in ways rarely fully acknowledged. Find mini-essays written by women like Alicia Malone and other diverse female film critics. Featuring past and present films, this behind the scenes guidebook is perfect for the Hollywood history fan in your life.

Inside, observe:

• How female directors’ voices shaped films and the film industry
• The advancements and accomplishments of influential women in history and film
• The lives of these women and the struggles they faced throughout Hollywood history

If you liked Women in Art or Camera Man, you’ll adore the powerful women in history found in Alicia Malone’s The Female Gaze.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781642508048
Publisher:	Mango Media
Publication date:	05/17/2022
Pages:	286
Sales rank:	484,618
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Alicia Malone is a film reporter, author and self-confessed movie geek. Currently she is a host on Turner Classic Movies and FilmStruck, a cinephile subscription streaming service. Alicia has given two TEDx talks about women in Hollywood, and her first book Backwards and in Heels: The Past, Present and Future of Women Working in Film was released in August 2017. She is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the LA Online Film Critics Society, and over the years she has interviewed hundreds of movie stars and filmmakers.

Table of Contents

Introduction 9

The Consequences of Feminism (1906) 13

Holly Weaver on La Souriante Madame Beudet (1922) 20

Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) 22

Sumeyye Korkaya on Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) 30

Cleo from 5 to 7(1962) 39

Daisies (1966) 46

Jenna Ipcar on The Heartbreak Kid (1972) 52

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (1975) 54

The lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975) 61

Seven Beauties (1975) 69

Tomris Laffly on News from Home (1977) 77

Farran Smith Nehme on Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) 79

My Brilliant Career (1979) 81

Amy Nicholson on The Decline Of Western Civilization I & II (1981 & 1988) 88

Miri Jedeikin on Big (1988) 90

Tiffany Vazquez on Paris Is Burning (1991) 92

Daughters of the Dust (1991) 94

Point Break (1991) 101

Orlando (1992) 110

Jen Yamato on A League of Their Own (1992) 117

The Piano (1993) 119

Roth Cornet on The Piano (1993) 126

Marya Gates on Little Women (1994) 128

Piya Sinha-Roy on Clueless (1995) 129

The Watermelon Woman (1996) 131

Jamie Broadnax on Eve's Bayou (1997) 138

Monica Castillo on Eve's Bayou (1997) 139

The Virgin Suicides (1999) 141

Clarke Wolfe on American Psycho (2000) 148

Jessie Maltin on Songcatcher (2000) 150

Whale Rider (2002) 151

Real Women Have Curves (2002) 158

Bend It Like Beckham (2002) 165

Alana Wulff on Thirteen (2003) 172

April Wolfe on Innocence (2004) 174

The Headless Woman (2008) 175

Wendy and Lucy (2008) 182

Women Without Men (2009) 190

Moira Macdonald on Bright Star (2009) 198

Fish Tank (2009) 200

The Kids Are All Right (2010) 209

We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) 216

Wadjda (2012) 225

The Babadook (2014) 233

Grae Drake on The Babadook (2014) 241

Girlhood (2014) 243

Aline Dolinh on The Lure (2015) 251

Mustang (2015) 253

Danielle Solzman on The Edge of Seventeen (2016) 261

Lady Bird (2017) 262

Aisha Harris on Lemon (2017) 271

Merritt Mecham on My Happy Family (2017) 272

The Rider (2017) 274

Caria Renata on A Wrinkle in Time (2018) 281

Acknowledgments 283

About Alicia Malone 284

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“The Female Gaze, written by the ebullient film journalist Alicia Malone, is an unabashed love letter to our cinema sisters. With fascinating histories painstakingly unearthed by Malone this book is a treasure of delights that honors more than a hundred years of female filmmaking. Brava!” ―Rachel Feldman, film/TV director, screenwriter and activist

“Once again Alicia Malone champions women filmmakers, opening the floodgates to a great new wave of female voices and creative vision. A wonderful guide to some of the best films made by women, both celebrating women directors and fueling the red-hot discussion about why we don’t have more.” ―Maria Giese, filmmaker and activist

“The book includes well-written biographies of many female filmmakers, their accomplishments and struggles, and the unique perspective that women can bring to film.” ―Motherhood Moment

Preface

THE FEMALE GAZE: Full Bibliography The Consequences of Feminism Century Film Project - The Consequences of Feminism by popegrutch The Silent Feminists: America’s First Women Directors by Anthony Slide Alice Guy Blache: Cinema Pioneer edited by Joan Simon The Nation - Alice’s Wonderlands: On Alice Guy Blaché by Jana Prikryl The Memoirs of Alice Guy Blache edited by Anthony Slide The Vintage News - Alice Guy-Blache: The Story of the First Female Cinema Pioneer and Film Director by Nikola Budanovic Dance, Girl, Dance AFI notes - “Dance,Girl, Dance” Senses of Cinema - “Dance,Girl, Dance” by Louise Cole TCM - “Dance,Girl, Dance” by Felicia Feaster Indiewire - Sharing Our Story: Hollywood’s First Contract Director Dorothy Arzner’s ‘Dance, Girl, Dance’ by Samantha Shada BFI - Dorothy Arzner: Queen of Hollywood by So Mayer Agnes’ Films - Interview with Dorothy Arzner by Karyn Kay and Gerald Peary The Silent Feminists: America’s First Women Directors by Anthony Slide Directed by Dorothy Arzner by Judith Mayne Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball by Kathleen Brady ’Tis Herself: A Memoir by Maureen O’Hara The Hitch-Hiker AFI notes - “The Hitch-Hiker” TCM - “The Hitch-Hiker” by Frank Miller Senses of Cinema - Ida Lupino by Wheeler Winston Dixon Indiewire - Book Excerpt: The Psychology of Fear in Ida Lupino’s “The Hitch- Hiker” by Heidi Honeycutt Girls Do Film - The Hitch-Hiker: Ida Lupino’s Economical Noir Ida Lupino: A Biography by William Donati Queen of the B’s: Ida Lupino Behind the Camera edited by Annette Kuhn Cléo from 5 to 7 The Criterion Collection - Cléo from 5 to 7: Passionate Time by Adrian Martin The Criterion Collection - Cléo from Screen to Stage by Michael Koresky TCM - “Cleo from 5 to 7” by Rob Nixon Slant Magazine - “Cléo from 5 to 7” by Eric Henderson Surrender to the Void - “Cléo from 5 to 7” PopOpiq - The Conversation: Drew Morton and Landon Palmer Discuss “Cléo from 5 to 7” by Landon Palmer Women Filmmakers: Women on the Other Side of the Camera edited by Amy L. Unterburger Films de France - Agnes Varda biography Senses of Cinema - Agnes Varda by Helen Carter Agnes Varda: Interviews edited by T. Jefferson Kline Agnes Varda by Kelley Conway Daisies The Criterion Collection - Pearls of the Deep: Alumni Association & Daisies: Flower Girls TCM - “Daisies” by Greg Ferrera Bonjour Tristesse - “Daisies” Scopophilia - “Daisies” by Richard Winters Cinepassion - “Daisies” by Fernando F. Croce Ferdy on Films - “Daisies” by Marilyn Ferdinand Senses of Cinema - This Film’s Going Bad: Collaborative Cutting in “Daisies” by Dylan Rainforth Women Filmmakers: Women on the Other Side of the Camera edited by Amy L. Unterburger New Wave Film - Peter Hames on Vera Chytilová by Simon Hitchman Sampsonian Way - “Everything That Well-Behaved Young Ladies Aren’t Supposed to Do”: Věra Chytilová and the Czechoslovak New Wave by Caitlyn Christensen Film Comment - In Memoriam: Věra Chytilová (1929-2014) by Meredith Slifkin Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels The Criterion Collection - A Matter of Time: “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels” by Ivone Marguiles Critic After Dark - “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels” by Noel Vera Film Inquiry - “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels”: Mystery and Insight in Everyday Work by Benjamin Wang Cinepassion - “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels” by Fernando F. Croce Critics Round Up - “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels” Bright Wall/Dark Room - Tales of Ordinary Sadness: Melancholy in The Cinema of Chantal Akerman by Joseph Earp Women Filmmakers: Women on the Other Side of the Camera edited by Amy L. Unterburger Jew Age - Chantal Akerman biography The House Next Door - Jeanne Dielman: Three Decades Later a Q&A with Chantal Akerman by Dan Callahan Sight & Sound - Keeping a distance: Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman by Janet Bergstrom Harvard Film Archive - Breathing Through Cinema - The Films of Chantal Akerman by Carson Lund The Guardian - Chantal Akerman Obituary by Jonathan Romney The New Yorker - Chantal Akerman by Richard Brody The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum The Criterion Collection - “The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum” by Amy Taubin TCM - “The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum” by Scott McGee Roger Ebert dot com - “The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum” by Roger Ebert Not Coming to a Theater Near You - “The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum” by Rumsey Taylor The Digital Fix - “The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum” by Noel Megahey Wellington Film Society - “The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum” by Joe Pettit Jr The European Graduate School (Volker Schlondorff, Margarethe von Trotta bios) The Official Volker Schlondorff website Senses of Cinema - Margarethe von Trotta by Ben Andac Images Journal - “The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum” Seven Beauties Roger Ebert dot com - “Seven Beauties” by Roger Ebert The Chicago Reader - “Seven Beauties” by Ben Sachs Critics Round Up - “Seven Beauties” Surrender to the Void - “Seven Beauties” Studies in Cinema - World War II Through A Comedic Lens by Jeremy Carr TCM - Lina Wertmüller Encyclopedia.com - Lina Wertmüller Harvard Film Archive - The Disorder of Things: A Lina Wertmüller Retrospective Variety - Lina Wertmüller on What Being the First Female Director Nominated for an Oscar Means to Her by Henry Chu The Criterion Collection - Grotesque Poetry: A Conversation with Lina Wertmüller by Hillary Weston Jezebel - A Conversation with Lina Wertmüller by Stassa Edwards Moviemaker Magazine - Lost and Found: The Misunderstood Career of Lina Wertmüller, the First Female "Best Director" Oscar Nominee by Jon Silberg My Brilliant Career Madman Entertainment - Gillian Armstrong biography Women Filmmakers Encyclopedia edit by Amy L. Unterburger Bitch Flicks - No Apologies: The Ambition of Gillian Armstrong and “My Brilliant Career” by Rebecca Hirsch Harcia Senses of Cinema - Gillian Armstrong by Helen Carter Precinct - Director Gillian Armstong: Some Notes on a Brilliant Career by Sarah Hall BOMB Magazine - Gillian Armstrong by Liza Béar SBS News - “People wondered if I would survive” by Marc Fennell The New York Times - At Tea with Gillian Armstrong: A Lucky Director’s Daring Career by Ruth Reichl Daughters of the Dust The Official Julie Dash website Roger Ebert dot com - “Daughters of the Dust” by Roger Ebert The New Yorker - The Return of Julie Dash’s “Daughters of the Dust” by Richard Brody The Washington Post - “Daughters of the Dust” by Rita Kempley Slant Magazine - “Daughters of the Dust” by Clayton Dillard The Austin Chronicle - “Daughters of the Dust” by Marjorie Baumgarten Cinema Scope - “Daughters of the Dust” by Steve Macfarlane The Historymakers - Julie Dash biography UCLA website - Julie Dash biography Film Comment - Interview: Julie Dash by Cassie de Costa Vogue Magazine - Director Julie Dash on “Daughters of the Dust”, Beyoncé, and Why We Need Film Now More Than Ever by Julia Felsenthal Metro - “Daughters of the Dust” Returns to provide a Safe Space by Matt Prigge Point Break AFI notes - “Point Break” Roger Ebert dot com - “Point Break” by Roger Ebert Rolling Stone - “Point Break” by Peter Travers Slant Magazine - “Point Break” by Arthur Ryel-Lindsey Daily Film Dose - “Point Break” by Alan Bacchus The Telegraph - Tough Guys Have Feelings Too: The Power of Point Break by Robbie Collin MTV - A Celebration of “Point Break”: 25 Years Later by Teo Bugbee Birth Movies Death - “Point Break”: Kathryn Bigelow’s Subversive Surf Western by Priscilla Page Kathryn Bigelow: Interviews edited by Peter Keough Premiere Magazine - James Cameron interview by Johanna Schneller Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema by Yvonne Tasker Biography dot com - Kathryn Bigelow, Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves bios Parallax View - Black Arts by Kathleen Murphy DGA - Passion Player by Steve Chagollan Time Magazine - Kathryn Bigelow’s Art of Darkness by Jessica Winter Orlando Variety - “Orlando” by David Stratton The New York Times - Witty, Pretty, Bold, A Real She-Man by Vincent Canby Roger Ebert dot com - “Orlando” by Roger Ebert The Washington Post - “Orlando” by Rota Kempley Slant Magazine - A Movie A Day: Day 58 “Orlando” by Elise Nakhnikian Spirituality and Practice - “Orlando” by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat The Los Angeles Times - Director Sally Potter Defies Boundaries in “Orlando” by David Gritten The Official Sally Potter website - “Orlando” BFI Screenonline - Sally Potter, Tilda Swinton bios Senses of Cinema - Sally Potter by Kristi McKim Emanuel Levy - “Orlando” Interview with Writer / Director Sally Potter Cleo - “Sharing Something Closer to Paradise” : An Interview with Sally Potter by Tim Hayes Encyclopedia Britannica - Virginia Woolf bio The Virginia Woolf Blog - Virginia Woolf’s “Orlando”: A Landscape Love Story Transcending All Borders by Rebecca Beatrice Brooks Conceptual Fiction - “Orlando” by Virginia Woolf by Ted Gioia The Telegraph - Tilda Swinton on Virginia Woolf’s “Orlando” by Tilda Swinton The Piano The Guardian - Holly Hunter interview by Sandra Hebron The Guardian - How We Made: Michael Nyman and Jane Campion on “The Piano” by Anna Tims The Independent - Well Holly Would, Wouldn’t She?: Holly Hunter had to Fight to Get a Part in Jane Campion’s “The Piano” by Sheila Johnston The Independent - Piano Forte by Quentin Curtis Urban Cinefile - Making of: “The Piano” by Andrew L Urban The Official Miramax website - 20 Things You Didn’t Know About “The Piano” The Telegraph - “Top of the Lake”: Holly Hunter interview by Helena de Bertodano Radio Times - “Top of the Lake”: Jane Campion and Holly Hunter on Reuniting 20 Years After “The Piano” Deadline - Emmy’s Q&A: Holly Hunter by Ray Richmond Interview Magazine - New Again: Jane Campion by Katherine Dieckmann and Michael Tabb The Watermelon Woman The New York Times - On Black Films and Breezy Lesbians by Stephen Holden SFGate - “Watermelon Woman” Digs Fruitfully into a Faux Past by Ruthe Stein The Austin Chronicle - “The Watermelon Woman” by Marjorie Baumgarten Slant Magazine - “The Watermelon Woman” by Clayton Dillard Critics Round Up The Official Cheryl Dunye website Indiewire - Cheryl Dunye Always Knew Black Lives Mattered: “The Watermelon Woman” Legacy by Jude Dry Interview Magazine - Cheryl Dunye’s Alternative Histories by Colleen Kelsey The Lenny Interview - Cheryl Dunye by Katherine Bernard ONE Archives - Memoirs of a Watermelon Woman, An Archive of Production Ephemera The Virgin Suicides The New York Times - Evanescent Trees and Sisters in an Enchanted 1970’s Suburb by A.O. Scott Variety - “The Virgin Suicides” by Emmanuel Levy Roger Ebert dot com - “The Virgin Suicides” by Roger Ebert SFGate - Sofia Coppola Creates a Dreamy, Lyrical World / Five Blond Beauties Become “Virgin Suicides” by Peter Stack Slant Magazine - “The Virgin Suicides” by Ed Gonzalez Encyclopedia Britannica - Sofia Coppola bio Biography - Sofia Coppola, James Woods, Kirsten Dunst, Danny DeVito bios The Guardian - Sofia Coppola on Making “The Virgin Suicides” by Sofia Coppola Entertainment Weekly - Sofia Coppola: Studio Was “Afraid” of Girls Watching “The Virgin Suicides” by Joey Nolfi Indiewire - Sofia Coppola: Paramount Classics Feared “Virgin Suicides” Release Would Encourage Girls to Commit Suicide by Zack Sharf Gradesaver - Jeffrey Eugenides bio The Paris Review - Jeffrey Eugenides, The Art of Fiction No. 215 by James Gibbons W Magazine - Kirsten Forever by Sofia Coppola Whale Rider Roger Ebert dot com - “Whale Rider” by Roger Ebert SFGate - A Born Leader But Not a Boy / A Maori Girl Must Cope With an Elder’s Disdain in simple “Whale Rider” by Mick LaSalle PopMatters - “Whale Rider” by Cynthia Fuchs Urban Cinefile - “Whale Rider” by Andrew L. Urban and Louise Keller Urban Cinefile - Caro, Niki: “Whale Rider” by Andrew L. Urban World Socialist Web Site - Film-making in the Service of Identity Politics by John Braddock NZ on Screen - Niki Caro bio Indiewire - Girl Power: New Zealand Writer/Director Niki Caro Talks About “Whale Rider” by Ryan Mottesheard DGA - Powerful People by F.X. Feeney Stuff - Niki Caro: Lifting the Lid on the “Whale Rider” Backlash by Michael O’Sullivan Stuff - Keisha Castle-Hughes’s Rollercoaster Ride by The Dominion Post Encyclopedia Britannica - Witi Ihimaera bio Notable Biographies - Keisha Castle-Hughes bio BBC - Keisha Castle-Hughes by Anwar Brett Real Women Have Curves Roger Ebert dot com - “Real Women Have Curves” by Roger Ebert SFGate - Mom, Teen Square off in “Real Women” / Funny, Engaging Drama About Latino Family in LA by Carla Meyer USA Today - “Real Women” Reflects the Real World by Claudia Puig Nitrate Online - “Real Women Have Curves” by Cynthia Fuchs Urban Cinefile - “Real Women Have Curves” by Andrew L. Urban and Louise Keller The Washington Post - A Rare Film About and For Real Women by Donna Britt LA Weekly - Latina Filmmaker Patricia Cardosa Was Almost Hired to Direct a Feature 7 Times by Ana Luisa González Entertainment Weekly - 15 Years Later, “Real Women Have Curves” is Still a Cultural Revolution by Joey Nolfi Film Monthly - It’s “Curves” Ahead for America by Paul Fischer SplicedWire - All America(n) Girl by Rob Blackwelder Bend It Like Beckham Roger Ebert dot com - “Bend It Like Beckham” by Roger Ebert Not Coming to a Theater Near You - “Bend It Like Beckham” by Village Voice - “Bend It Like Beckham” by Chiranjit Goswami Slate - Kicking, But Not Alive by David Edelstein Nitrate Online - “Bend It Like Beckham” by Cynthia Fuchs The Atlantic - “Bend It Like Beckham” and the Art of Balancing Cultures by Rajpreet Heir BFI Screenonline - Gurinder Chadha bio The Telegraph - Gurinder Chadha Interview: Why “Bend It Like Beckham” Still Matters by Jasper Rees The Guardian - Larger Than Life by Geraldine Bedell The Guardian - Gurinder Chadha: “It’s Been the Most Satisfying Thing I’ve Ever Done” by Corrine Jones The Guardian - Keira Knightley: “I Used to Try to be Sensible and Good and Professional” by Megan Conner Entertainment Weekly - How “Bend It Like Beckham” Bent the Rules and Became a Girl Power Classic by Devan Coggan Mental Floss - 18 Winning Facts About “Bend It Like Beckham” by Dana Schwartz The Headless Woman Not Coming to a Theater Near You - “The Headless Woman” by Jenny Jediny Ferdy on Film - “The Headless Woman” by Marilyn Ferdinand Eye for Film - “The Headless Woman” by Anton Bitel Daily Film Dose - “The Headless Woman” by Alan Bacchus Critics Round Up Festival de Cannes - Lucrecia Martel bio Film Comment - Interview: Lucrecia Martel by Amy Taubin Indiewire - “Headless Woman” Director Lucrecia Martel: My Love of Storytelling Comes From Oral Tradition by Eugene Hernandez Filmmaker Magazine - Lucrecia Martel: “The Headless Woman” by Nick Dawson Reverse Shot - Lucrecia Martel by Chris Wisniewski BOMB Magazine - Lucrecia Martel by Haden Guest The New York Times - Lucrecia Martel: A Director Who Confounds and Thrills by J. Hoberman Wendy and Lucy Roger Ebert dot com - “Wendy and Lucy” by Roger Ebert USA Today - “Wendy” is Rich in Dismay, Hope by Claudia Puig The Boston Globe - “Wendy and Lucy” by Wesley Morris The Austin Chronicle - “Wendy and Lucy” by Kimberly Jones Screen Comment - “Wendy and Lucy” by Kevin Bowen Who2 Biographies - Kelly Reichardt bio Senses of Cinema - Kelly Reichardt by Sam Littman Indiewire - Decade: Kelly Reichardt on “Wendy and Lucy” by Peter Knegt Slant Magazine - Interview: Kelly Reichardt on “Wendy and Lucy” by Ryan Stewart The Guardian - Kelly Reichardt: “Faster, Faster, Faster - We All Want Things Faster” by Nigel M. Smith Reuters - Michelle Williams Says “Wendy and Lucy” Role a Gift by Michelle Nichols IFC - Interview: Kelly Reichardt on “Wendy and Lucy” by Alison Willmore Women Without Men Variety - “Women Without Men” by Jay Weissberg SFGate - “Women Without Men” by Walter Addiego Slant Magazine - “Women Without Men” by Lauren Wissot Film Forward - “Women Without Men” by Nora Lee Mandel The Film Sufi - “Women Without Men” Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari Guggenheim - Shirin Neshat bio Artnet - Shirin Neshat bio Hammer on Nail - A Conversation with Shirin Neshat by Alexandra Roxo Filmmaker Magazine - “Women Without Men” Shirin Neshat by Livia Bloom Artspace - Q&A: Exiled Iranian Artist Shirin Neshat on the Making of “Women Without Men” by Artspace Editors Fish Tank The New York Times - A Reckless Teenager, Seeking Solitude Yet Craving Connection by A.O. Scott Roger Ebert dot com - “Fish Tank” by Roger Ebert Next Projection - “Fish Tank” by Jocelyn Codner The Austin Chronicle - “Fish Tank” by Kimberly Jones Urban Cinefile - “Fish Tank” by Andrew L. Urban and Louise Keller BFI Screenonline - Andrea Arnold bio Filmmaker Magazine - Andrea Arnold, “Fish Tank” by Damon Smith Indiewire - Interview: Andrea Arnold Talks “Fish Tank” by Kimber Myers Hammer to Nail - A Conversation with Andrea Arnold by Michael Tully The Scotsman - Andrea Arnold Interview The Guardian - Katie Jarvis: “Walking Down the Red Carpet, People Screaming… Madness!” by Barbara Ellen The Atlantic - Michael Fassbender Showed All of His Threatening Appeal in “Fish Tank” by David Sims Under the Radar - Michael Fassbender: Interview With the Co-star of “Fish Tank” by Chris Tinkham The Kids Are All Right Roger Ebert dot com - “The Kids Are All Right” by Roger Ebert USA Today - Warm “Kids Are All Right” Approaches Perfection by Claudia Puig Slant Magazine - “The Kids Are All Right” by Lauren Wissot World Socialist Web Site - “The Kids Are All Right” Circling the Wagons by Joanne Laurier Urban Cinefile - “The Kids Are All Right” by Andrew L. Urban and Louise Keller NPR - Director Lisa Cholodenko on Conceiving “The Kids” by Fresh Air The Guardian - Lisa Cholodenko: “I’m Cynical About the Gay Martyr Movie” by Kira Cochrane Harpers Bazaar - Two Moms and a Baby by Lisa Cholodenko Filmmaker Magazine - Lisa Cholodenko, “The Kids Are All Right” by Damon Smith Cinema Blend - Interview: “The Kids Are All Right” Director Lisa Cholodenko by Katey Rich TimeOut - Lisa Cholodenko and Julianne Moore on “The Kids Are All Right” by Joshua Rothkopf The Mercury News - Annette Bening on Family and “The Kids Are All Right” by Barry Caine The Telegraph - “The Kids Are All Right” Mark Ruffalo Interview by Will Lawrence We Need To Talk About Kevin The New York Times - Suffocated By Motherhood, and a Child Whose Hold Still Lingers by A.O. Scott Roger Ebert dot com - “We Need To Talk About Kevin” by Roger Ebert The Atlantic - The Impossible Question of “We Need To Talk About Kevin”: Nature or Nuture? by Ian Buckwalter Slant Magazine - “We Need To Talk About Kevin” by Ed Gonzalez Urban Cinefile - “We Need To Talk About Kevin” by Andrew L. Urban and Louise Keller BFI Screenonline - Lynne Ramsay, Tilda Swinton bios Indiewire - The Film Stage - “We Need To Talk About Kevin” Director Lynne Ramsay Talks Casting John C. Reilly, Framing, Tomatoes & More by Bill Graham The Guardian - Lynne Ramsay: “Just Talk to Me Straight” by Sean O’Hagan The Guardian - Director Lynne Ramsay: “I’ve Got a Reputation For Being Difficult - It’s Bullshit” by Miranda Sawyer The Guardian - Lionel Shriver Talks About Kevin by Lionel Shriver The Guardian - Tilda Swinton: “I Didn’t Speak For Five Years” by Kira Cochrane Interview Magazine - Lynne Ramsay Frames The Picture by Durga Chew-Bose Vanity Fair - Ezra Miller on “We Need to Talk About Kevin” Playing Tormented Teens and Scaring His Own Friends by Julie Miller Wadjda The New York Times - Silly Girl, You Want to Race a Boy? by A.O. Scott Paste Magazine - “Wadjda” by Tim Grierson Urban Cinefile - “Wadjda” by Andrew L. Urban and Louise Keller The Austin Chronicle - “Wadjda” by Marjorie Baumgarten Torino Film Lab - Haifaa Al-Mansour bio NPR - “Wadjda” Director: “It’s Time to Open Up” by NPR Staff The Independent - Haifaa Al-Mansour Interview by Enjoli Liston The Guardian - Haifaa Al-Mansour: “It’s Very Important to Celebrate Resistance” by Liz Hoggard The Huffington Post - Filmmaker Haifaa Al-Mansour: The “Exceptional Arab Women in Film” Series by E. Nina Rothe The Washington Post - “Wadjda” Director Haifaa Al-Mansour Gives Female Perspective of Life in Saudi Arabia by Dan Zak Marie Claire - 7 Reasons Why We’re in Awe of This Woman by Francesca Rice The Babadook Variety - “The Babadook” by Scott Foundas Slant Magazine - “The Babadook” by Abhimanyu Das The Austin Chronicle - “The Babadook” by Marjorie Baumgarten The Hollywood Reporter - “The Babadook” by David Rooney The Guardian - “The Babadook”: “I Wanted to Talk About the Need to Face Darkness in Ourselves” by Paul McInnes The Los Angeles Times - “The Babadook”: Director Jennifer Kent Confronts a Boogeyman by Gina McIntyre Cinema Australia - Interview: Jennifer Kent Oregon Live - “The Babadook” Interview: Jennifer Kent Talks About Her Terrifying First Feature by Marc Mohan Mountain Xpress - Interview with “The Babadook” Writer-Director Jennifer Kent by Ken Hanke Girlhood Variety - “Girlhood” by Peter Debruge Indiewire - “Girlhood” Star Karidja Toure Talks Her Casting, Meaning Within the Film, Her Future as An Actress, More by Tambay A. Obenson The Los Angeles Times - “Girlhood” Celebrates Power and Passion of Sisterhood by Kenneth Turan Sight and Sound - Film of the Week: “Girlhood” by Sue Harris World Cinema Guide - “Girlhood” Critics Round Up The European Independent Film Festival - Celine Sciamma bio The Independent - Celine Sciamma Interview: Step Aside “Boyhood”, It’s “Girlhood” Time by James Mottram Indiewire - Interview: “Girlhood” Director Celine Sciamma on Race, Gender & the Universality of the Story by Zeba Blay Jezebel - An Interview with Celine Sciamma: Director of “Girlhood” by Kerensa Cadenas Close-Up - Interview: “Girlhood” Celine Sciamma and Karidja Toure Teen Vogue - You’ll Never Believe How Breakout French Actress Karidja Toure Was Discovered by Dana Matthews, Bruno Werzinski, Victor Vaughns The Guardian - The Stars of “Girlhood”: “Our Poster is All Over Paris, with Four Black Faces on it…” by Jonathan Romney Mustang Cineaste - “Mustang” by Darragh O’Donaghue Film Inquiry - “Mustang” a One of a Kind Coming-of-Age Story by Alistair Ryder Digital Journal - “Mustang” Gains Deserved Recognition For Spirited Portrait by Sarah Gopaul Seattle Screen Scene - “Mustang” by Melissa Tamminga Urban Cinefile - “Mustang” by Andrew L. Urban and Louise Keller Festivalscope - Deniz Gamze Erguven, Alice Winocour bio The Guardian - Deniz Gamze Erguven: “For Women in Turkey it’s Like the Middle Ages” by Rachel Cooke Indiewire - Meet Deniz Gamze Erguven - “Mustang” by Laura Berger Vogue - Deniz Gamze Erguven on Her Stunning New Movie, “Mustang” by Julia Felsenthal The Toast - An Interview with Deniz Gamze Erguven on Her Feminist Fairytale “Mustang” by Ren Jender Elle - “The Mustang” 5: Locked Up With the Cult-Like Cast of This Year’s Oscar Darkhorse by Justine Harman Lady Bird Slant Magazine - “Lady Bird” by Christopher Gray The Guardian - “Lady Bird” Review - Greta Gerwig’s Charming and Witty Solo Directorial Debut Flies High by Benjamin Lee Sight and Sound - “Lady Bird” Review: Greta Gerwig Sketches Scenes From an Awkward Adolescence by Nick Pinkerton Spirituality and Practice - “Lady Bird” by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Biography - Greta Gerwig, Saoirse Ronan bios NPR - Greta Gerwig Takes On Mother-Daughter Love (and Angst) in “Lady Bird” by Fresh Air Rolling Stone - How Greta Gerwig Turned the Personal “Lady Bird” Into a Perfect Movie by Esther Zuckerman Indiewire - Greta Gerwig Explains How Much of Her Charming Coming-of-Age Film “Lady Bird” Was Inspired By Her Own Youth by Kate Erbland Variety - Greta Gerwig and Saoirse Ronan on How They Found the Voice of “Lady Bird” by Owen Gleiberman Time Magazine - How Talent - And a Little Luck - Got Saoirse Ronan to Hollywood by Eliana Dockterman Screen Daily - “Lady Bird” star Laurie Metcalf on Why Working With a Female Director Felt Different by Louise Tutt The Rider Screen Anarchy - “The Rider” Elegiac and Intimate Portrait of Suffering and Care by Shelagh Rowan-Legg Film Explorer - “The Rider” by Jodie McNeilly-Renaudie Hammer to Nail - “The Rider” by Christopher Llewellyn Reed Critics Round Up The Village Voice - This is Not Your Last Rodeo by Bilge Ebiri Deadline - “The Rider” Helmer Chloe Zhao on Her Portrait of the Demonized American Heartland by Nancy Tartaglione Filmmaker Magazine - Chloe Zhao by Scott Macaulay Screen Daily - Chloe Zhao Talks About Her Journey From China to Dakota by Liz Shackleton National Board of Review - “The Rider” Q&A with Chloe Zhao and Brady Jandreau The Los Angeles Times - How a Cowboy From South Dakota and a Filmmaker From Beijing Came Together on the Critically Acclaimed Indie “The Rider” by Josh Rottenberg Interview Magazine - The Heart-Stopping Cowboy Film That Won Over Cannes by Evan Siegel WTOP - In Chloe Zhao’s “The Rider” a Rodeo Cowboy Plays Himself by The Associated Press Deadline - “I Was Awful Lucky To Live”: “The Rider” Star Brady Jandreau on Docudrama Study of Cowboy Lifestyle by Damon Wise Kickin’ 105 - Prayers for Lane Scott Vanity Fair - Director Chloe Zhao Mines the Broken Life of a Modern Cowboy in “The Rider” by Nicole Sperling 1985 Artists - Tiyospaye by Evan Louison Vanity Fair - “The Rider” Star Brady Jandreau Trades the Rodeo Circuit for the Film Festival Circuit by Nicole Sperling Boston Herald - A Star Is Born: “The Rider” Brady Jandreau by Stephen Schaefer

Editorial Reviews

The Female Gaze, written by the ebullient film journalist Alicia Malone, is an unabashed love letter to our cinema sisters. With fascinating histories painstakingly unearthed by Malone, this book is a treasure of delights that honors more than a hundred years of female filmmaking. Brava!”―Rachel Feldman, Film/TV director, screenwriter and activist

“Once again Alicia Malone champions women filmmakers, opening the floodgates to a great new wave of female voices and creative vision. A wonderful guide to some of the best films made by women, both celebrating women directors and fueling the red-hot discussion about why we don’t have more.”―Maria Giese, filmmaker and activist

“The book includes well-written biographies of many female filmmakers, their accomplishments and struggles, and the unique perspective that women can bring to film.”―Motherhood Moment

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