Classic Couple Academy

The complete list of films referenced in Episode 4 of Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema. Chapter nine on staging, chapter ten on journey, and chapter eleven on discovery. Chapter Nine – Staging Film Filmmaker Country(ies) Year The Moon has Risen Kinuyo Tanaka Japan 1955 Toni Erdmann Maren Ade Germany, Austria, Switzerland, […]

Strangers in Good Company (1990) This week, Classic Couple Academy discovered Strangers in Good Company (1990) directed by Cynthia Scott. The film, released in Canada as The Company of Strangers, features eight women stranded at an isolated lakeside farm and cottage after their tour bus breaks down. Strangers in Good Company is the ideal study […]

Tuesday, September 15Night Three: Conversation, Framing and TrackingTwo Airings on TCM: 8:00 PM and 10:45 PM Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema Episode 3 wraps up how filmmakers put people into a film’s story world with chapter six on conversation. How people communicate, or not, brings them to life on the screen. […]

The complete list of films referenced in Episode 3 of Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema. Chapter six on conversation, chapter seven on framing, and chapter eight on tracking. Chapter Six – Conversation Film Filmmaker Country(ies) Year Places in Cities Angela Schanelec Germany 1998 Middle of Nowhere Ava DuVernay USA 2012 Girlhood […]

Entre Nous (1983) This week, Classic Couple Academy explored the biographical film Entre Nous (1983) from Diane Kurys. The film, originally released under the French title Coup de Foundre, meaning love at first sight, portrays a series of love stories connected to Kurys’ mother. We witness the fateful meeting of her parents in a 1942 […]

Tuesday, September 8Night Two: Believability, Introducing Character, and the Meet CuteTwo Airings on TCM: 8:00 PM and 11:15 PM Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema takes viewers through hundreds of examples in a montage of scenes from movies across the world and over many decades. Women Make Film: Episode 2 offers viewers […]

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 […]

La Ciénaga (2001) This week, Classic Couple Academy dove into Lucrecia Martel’s La Ciénaga (2001) through the lens of openings and tone. The preview of the opening in the Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema documentary piqued interest, and the film itself did not disappoint. Thoughts on this week’s Academy Assignment below. […]

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. Visit the Academy Store to shop films and books. Offerings updated weekly. Chapter One – Openings Film Filmmaker Country(ies) Year The East […]

Tuesday, September 1Night One: Openings and ToneTwo Airings on TCM: 8:00 PM and 10:45 PM Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema takes viewers through hundreds of examples in a montage of scenes from movies across the world and over many decades. Spanning 1943 to 2013 and traveling from China to Iran, Australia […]