Classic Couple Academy

Tuesday, September 29Night Five: Adult/Child, Economy and EditingTwo Airings on TCM: 8:00 PM and 11:15 PM Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema Episode 5 begins with the heart of human discovery, examining one of the most fundamental relationships – that between adult and child – in chapter 12. This bond, visible and […]

The complete list of films referenced in Episode 5 of Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema. Chapter twelve on adult/child, chapter thirteen on economy, and chapter fourteen on editing. Chapter Twelve – Adult/Child Film Filmmaker Country(ies) Year Home Ursula Meier Switzerland, France, Belgium 2008 The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow USA 2008 A […]

The Juniper Tree (1990) This week, Classic Couple Academy visited mythical Iceland in The Juniper Tree (1990) directed by Nietzchka Keene. Shot in 1986, Keene independently financed the film, completing and releasing it four years later. Based on a fairy tale known as The Juniper Tree or sometimes The Almond Tree published by the Brothers […]

Tuesday, September 22Night Four: Staging, Journey and DiscoveryTwo Airings on TCM: 8:00 PM and 11:00 PM Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema Episode 4 moves away from the “photographic language of movies” to the interaction of people and things in front of the camera. Chapter 9 explores staging and how people and […]

The complete list of films referenced in Episode 4 of Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema. Chapter nine on staging, chapter ten on journey, and chapter eleven on discovery. Chapter Nine – Staging Film Filmmaker Country(ies) Year The Moon has Risen Kinuyo Tanaka Japan 1955 Toni Erdmann Maren Ade Germany, Austria, Switzerland, […]

Strangers in Good Company (1990) This week, Classic Couple Academy discovered Strangers in Good Company (1990) directed by Cynthia Scott. The film, released in Canada as The Company of Strangers, features eight women stranded at an isolated lakeside farm and cottage after their tour bus breaks down. Strangers in Good Company is the ideal study […]

Tuesday, September 15Night Three: Conversation, Framing and TrackingTwo Airings on TCM: 8:00 PM and 10:45 PM Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema Episode 3 wraps up how filmmakers put people into a film’s story world with chapter six on conversation. How people communicate, or not, brings them to life on the screen. […]

The complete list of films referenced in Episode 3 of Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema. Chapter six on conversation, chapter seven on framing, and chapter eight on tracking. Chapter Six – Conversation Film Filmmaker Country(ies) Year Places in Cities Angela Schanelec Germany 1998 Middle of Nowhere Ava DuVernay USA 2012 Girlhood […]

Entre Nous (1983) This week, Classic Couple Academy explored the biographical film Entre Nous (1983) from Diane Kurys. The film, originally released under the French title Coup de Foundre, meaning love at first sight, portrays a series of love stories connected to Kurys’ mother. We witness the fateful meeting of her parents in a 1942 […]

Tuesday, September 8Night Two: Believability, Introducing Character, and the Meet CuteTwo Airings on TCM: 8:00 PM and 11:15 PM Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema takes viewers through hundreds of examples in a montage of scenes from movies across the world and over many decades. Women Make Film: Episode 2 offers viewers […]