Featured Films: Women Make Film Episode 1

By request, each week we offer the complete list of films referenced in episodes of Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema. Chapter one on openings and chapter two on tone.
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Chapter One – Openings
Film | Filmmaker | Country(ies) | Year |
The East is Red | Wang Ping | China | 1965 |
First Comes Courage | Dorothy Arzner | USA | 1943 |
The Silence of the Palaces | Moufida Tlatli | Tunisia | 1994 |
The Quarry | Marion Hänsel | Belgium, France, Netherlands, Spain | 1998 |
Strange Days | Kathryn Bigelow | USA | 1995 |
Harlan County U.S.A. | Barbara Kopple | USA | 1976 |
Innocence (Evolution?) | Lucile Hadžihalilovic | France | 2004 |
Things To Come | Mia Hansen-Løve | France | 2016 |
Je Tu Il Elle (1975) All | Chantal Akerman | France, Belgium | 1974 |
For Mary | Wendy Toye | UK | 1955 |
Sweetie | Jane Campion | Australia | 1989 |
Thumbelina | Lotte Reiniger | UK | 1954 |
Le Bonheur | Agnès Varda | France | 1965 |
The Very Late | Vera Chytilova | Czechoslovakia | 1983 |
Afternoon of a Faun | Alison De Vere | UK | 1987 |
The Black Dog | Pirjo Honkasalo | Finland, Denmark, Germany, Sweden | 2004 |
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia | Marziyeh Meshkini | Iran | 2000 |
The Day I Became A Woman | Samira Makhmalbaf | Iran-Italy-Japan | 2000 |
Blackboards | Athina Rachel Tsangari | Greece | 2010 |
Attenberg Be My Star | Valeska Grisebach | Germany | 2001 |
The Visitor | Lola Randl | Germany | 2008 |
A Time to Die | Dorota Kędzierzawska | Poland | 2007 |
Butter on the Latch | Josephine Decker | USA | 2013 |
The Last Stage | Wanda Jakubowska | Poland | 1947 |
La Cienaga | Lucrecia Martel | Argentina, France, Spain, Japan | 2001 |
Chapter Two – Tone
Film | Filmmaker | Country(ies) | Year |
Merrily We Go to Hell | Dorothy Arzner | USA | 1932 |
Wanda | Barbara Loden | USA | 1970 |
Pet Sematary | Mary Lambert | USA | 1989 |
Tank Girl | Rachel Talalay | USA | 1995 |
On the 12th Day of Christmas | Wendy Toye | UK | 1955 |
By The Sea | Angelina Jolie | USA | 2015 |
Peel | Jane Campion | Australia | 1982 |
Beau Travail | Claire Denis | France | 1999 |
Olivia | Jacqueline Audry | France | 1951 |
Maedchen in Uniform | Leontine Sagan | Germany | 1931 |
Sambizanga | Sarah Maldoror | Angola-France | 1973 |
Two in One | Kira Muratova | Ukraine-Russia | 2007 |
American Psycho | Mary Harron | USA | 2000 |
A New Leaf | Elaine May | USA | 1971 |
Betoniyö | Pirjo Honkasalo | Finland, Sweden, Denmark | 2013 |