female directors

Top Ten: Female Directed Films

10 June 2015 by Louise Leave a Comment

As I get older I find myself becoming increasingly feminist in my opinions. I look around me and I see reports of women facing sexism in their daily lives, I watch Parliament and hear female MPs being told to “behave” by their male colleagues and I have to bite my tongue…

Filed Under: Top 10 Tagged With: A League of their Own, Ada DuVernay, Andrea Arnold, Anne Fletcher, Bend it like Beckham, Big, Escape to Victory, female directors, feminism, Gurinder Chadha, Jessica Chastain, Kathryn Bigelow, Keira Knightley, Lionel Shriver, Lisa Cholodenko, Lynne Ramsay, Mel Gibson, Nancy Myers, Nora Ephron, Parminder Nagra, Penelope Spheeris, Penny Marshall, Red Road, romantic comedies, Ryan Reynolds, Sandra Bullock, Sleepless in Seattle, Sofia Coppola, The Hurt Locker, The Kids Are All Right, The Proposal, Tom Hanks, Wayne's World, We Need to talk about Kevin, What Women Want, When Harry Met Sally, Zero Dark Thirty

The Box

8 October 2011 by Louise 1 Comment

This entry is part 15 of 30 in the series Raindance 2011

The war in the early 1990s and the break-up of the former Yugoslavia casts a long shadow over the culture of the Balkans. It’s no surprise that film-makers in the region are creating work which reflect the time…

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: Andrijana Stojkovic, Balkan Cinema, comedy, drama, female directors, foreign language films, Ivan Djordjevic, Marko Janketic, quirky, Raindance, Raindance Film Festival, Serbian, Slobodan Negic, The Box, war, Yugoslavia