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The complete list of films referenced in Episode 11 of Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema. Chapter twenty-nine on tension, chapter thirty on stasis and chapter thirty-one on leave out. Chapter Twenty-Nine – Tension Film Filmmaker Country(ies) Year Demon Lover Diary Joel DeMott USA 1980 Dreams of a Life Carol Morley UK, […]

This week Classic Couple Academy watched 2012 German-Luxembourgish-French biographical drama film Hannah Arendt. Directed by Margarethe von Trotta, the film centers on the life of German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, beginning when in 1961 she covers the trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann for The New Yorker magazine. Arendt’s writing on the trial, the […]

Week Ten: Women Make Film Episode 10 Tuesday, November 3Night Ten: Melodrama, Sci Fi, and Horror and HellTwo Airings on TCM: 8:00 PM and 11:15 PM Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema Episode 10 continues the exploration of film genres with chapter 26 on melodrama. Melodrama can be depicted through a central […]

The complete list of films referenced in Episode 10 of Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema. Chapter twenty-six on melodrama, chapter twenty-seven on Sci-Fi and chapter twenty-eight on horror and hell. Chapter Twenty-Six – Melodrama Film Filmmaker Country(ies) Year Shoes Lois Weber USA 1916 Death is a Caress Edith Carlmar Norway 1949 […]

This week, Classic Couple explored the early work of Mabel Normand. A popular silent-film star in the 1910s and 1920s, Normand was a quadruple threat as actress, screenwriter, director and producer with at one time her own movie studio and production company. She was an early collaborator of Mack Sennet in his Keystone Studio films […]

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 […]

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 […]