Classic Couple Academy

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 […]

The complete list of films referenced in Episode 6 of Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema. Chapter fifteen on POV, chapter sixteen on close up, and chapter seventeen on surrealism and dreams. Chapter Fifteen – POV Film Filmmaker Country(ies) Year Proof Jocelyn  Moorhouse Austrailia 1992 The Hitch-hiker Ida Lupino USA 1953 The […]

Middle of Nowhere (2012) This week, Classic Couple Academy viewed Middle of Nowhere (2012) directed by Ava DuVernay. It’s the story of Ruby, a nurse in Compton, coming to terms with life on her own as her husband serves an eight-year prison sentence. The film spans her visits to the prison early in his sentence […]

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 […]