Classic Couple Academy

Week Nine: Women Make Film Episode 9 Tuesday, October 27Night Nine: Politics, Gear Change and ComedyTwo Airings on TCM: 8:00 PM and 11:00 PM Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema Episode 9 begins with chapter 23 on politics – as idealism, symbolism, propaganda and even comedy. In political films, content is king […]

This week, Classic Couple journeyed to the very beginning of women in film to the work of Alice Guy-Blaché. A pioneer French filmmaker, Alice Guy-Blaché is considered to be the first filmmaker to systematically develop narrative filmmaking and likely the only female filmmaker in the world from 1896 to 1906. In 1906 she directed for […]

The complete list of films referenced in Episode 9 of Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema. Chapter twenty-three on politics, chapter twenty-four on gear change and chapter twenty-five on comedy. Chapter Twenty-Three – Politics Film Filmmaker Country(ies) Year The Enchanted Desna Yuliya Sointseva USSR 1964 In My Skin Marina de Van France […]

Week Eight: Women Make Film Episode 8 Tuesday, October 20Night Eight: Home, Religion and WorkTwo Airings on TCM: 8:00 PM and 10:45 PM Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema Episode 8 begins with chapter 20 examining the ways home has been portrayed in cinema. Home appears as an ideal, as a fresh […]

Academy Assignment: Women Make Film Episode 7 This week, Classic Couple spent time with Forough Farrokhzad’s acclaimed 1963 documentary The House is Black. The twenty-two minute short film features footage from the Bababaghi Hospice leper colony in Iran. It focuses on scenes of the daily life and interactions of the colony residents spliced with Farrokhzad’s […]

The complete list of films referenced in Episode 8 of Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema. Chapter twenty on home, chapter twenty-one on religion and chapter twenty-two on work. Chapter Twenty – Home Film Filmmaker Country(ies) Year Wayward Girl Lesley Selander USA 1957 The Enchanted Desna Yuliya Sointseva Soviet Union 1964 Ratcatcher […]

Tuesday, October 13Night Seven: Bodies and SexTwo Airings on TCM: 8:00 PM and 11:00 PM Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema Episode 7 begins with chapter 18 narrator Jane Fonda discussing how bodies have fascinated movie-goers from the early silent film days watching the movement of Charlie Chaplin and the stillness of […]

The complete list of films referenced in Episode 7 of Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema. Chapter eighteen on bodies and chapter nineteen on sex. Chapter Eighteen – Bodies Film Filmmaker Country(ies) Year One Sings the Other Doesn’t Agnès Varda France 1977 Chocolate Yasmin Ahmad Malaysia 2009 Tomboy Céline Sciamma France 2011 […]

The Erl King (1931) This week, Classic Couple Academy traveled into the surreal world of Marie-Louise Iribe’s 1931 film The Erl King. Based on “Erlkönig,” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s most famous ballad, it depicts the death of a child assailed by king of the faeries – the Erl King. With a single touch, the Erl […]

Tuesday, October 6Night Six: Point of View (POV), Close-Up and Surrealism & DreamsTwo Airings on TCM: 8:00 PM and 11:15 PM Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema Episode 6 begins with chapter 15 asking the question if cinema is the art of point of view (POV). We see POV as the embodiment […]