Featured Films: Women Make Film Episode 2
The complete list of films referenced in Episode 2 of Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema. Chapter three on believability, chapter four on introducing a character, and chapter five on meet cute.
Chapter Three – Believability
Film | Filmmaker | Country(ies) | Year |
Why is Frau B Happy? | Erika Runge | Germany | 1968 |
The Hurt Locker | Kathryn Bigelow | USA | 2008 |
El Camino | Ana Mariscal | Spain | 1963 |
Lore | Cate Shortland | Germany, Australia, UK | 2012 |
Which Would You Choose? | Dinara Asanova | Soviet Union | 1981 |
Hotel Very Welcome | Sonja Heiss | Germany | 2007 |
Meek’s Cutoff | Kelly Reichardt | USA | 2010 |
The Selfish Giant | Clio Barnard | UK | 2013 |
Hedi Schneider is Stuck | Sonja Heiss | Germany | 2015 |
Toni Erdmann | Maren Ade | Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Romania | 2016 |
Point Break | Kathryn Bigelow | USA | 1991 |
The Blot | Lois Weber | USA | 1921 |
Frozen River | Courtney Hunt | USA | 2008 |
Selma | Ava DuVernay | UK, USA | 2014 |
Not a Pretty Picture | Martha Coolidge | USA | 1976 |
The Apple | Samira Makhmalbaf | Iran, France | 1998 |
Chapter Four – Introducing a Character
Film | Filmmaker | Country(ies) | Year |
The Moon Has Rise | Kinuyo Tanaka | Japan | 1955 |
Germany Pale Mother | Helma Sanders-Brahms | West Germany | 1980 |
Vagabond | Agnès Varda | France | 1985 |
Somewhere | Sofia Coppola | USA, UK, Italy, Japan | 2010 |
Nana | Valérie Massadian | France | 2011 |
The Connection | Shirley Clarke | USA | 1961 |
The Watermelon Woman | Cheryl Dunye | USA | 1996 |
Wayne’s World | Penelope Spheeris | USA | 1992 |
Fish Tank | Andrea Arnold | UK, Netherlands | 2009 |
Ellen | Mahalia Belo | UK | 2016 |
Girlhood | Céline Sciamma | France | 2015 |
Toni Erdmann | Maren Ade | Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Romania | 2016 |
The Story of the Flaming Years | Yuliya Solntseva | Soviet Union | 1961 |
Chapter Five – Meet Cute
Film | Filmmaker | Country(ies) | Year |
Krane’s Confectionery | Astrid Henning-Jensen | Norway | 1951 |
Brief Encounters | Kira Muratova | Soviet Union | 1968 |
The Seashell and the Clergyman | Germaine Dulac | France | 1928 |
The Heartbreak Kid | Elaine May | USA | 1972 |
Grand Central | Rebecca Zlotowski | France, Austria | 2013 |
One. Two. One | Mania Akbari | Iran | 2011 |
The Visitor | Lola Randl | Germany | 2008 |
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night | Ana Lily Amirpour | USA | 2014 |
Yaksha Gaanam | D Sheela | India | 1976 |
Point Break | Kathryn Bigelow | USA | 1991 |
Girlhood | Céline Sciamma | France | 2015 |
Wanda | Barbara Loden | USA | 1970 |
Vagabond | Agnès Varda | France | 1985 |
Fleeting Loves | Malvina Ursianu | Romania | 1974 |
Kill Me | Emily Atef | Germany, France, Switzerland | 2012 |
Faithless | Liv Ullmann | Sweden, Italy, Germany, Finland, Norway | 2000 |