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For decades, the world of directing was a male dominated landscape. While there have been female directors since the inception of cinema in the late Nineteenth century, few have ever garnered the same success or recognition as their male peers. This list is devoted to ten of the greatest female directors who ever lived. They were women who [...]
Posted by Nathanael Hood on Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Movies · Tagged Academy Award for Best Director, academy awards, Agnès Varda, Alain Resnais, Alice Guy-Blaché, An Angel at My Table, Chocolat, Claire Denis, David Lynch, Dogme, European cinema, Experimental film, film, Francis Ford Coppola, French cinema, Jane Campion, Janet Frame, K-19: The Widowmaker, Kathryn Bigelow, La Pointe Courte, Leni Riefenstahl, Lone Scherfig, Lost in Translation, Lynn Barber, marie antoinette, Maya Deren, Meshes of the Afternoon, mira nair, Monsoon Wedding, Point Break, Rive Gauche, salaam bombay, Sofia Coppola, Sweetie, the Berlin Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival, The Hurt Locker, The Piano, The Virgin Suicides, Triumph, Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself, Women's cinema
While many may think that French cinema is dry, boring, and stale, those initiated into the country’s movie industry know that France has one of the world’s richest crime film heritages. French cinema is brimming with tales of enigmatic heroes, daring heists, and malevolent criminals. Inspired by Hollywood detective stories and film noir, French crime [...]
Posted by Nathanael Hood on Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Crime, Movies · Tagged Abel Davos, Alain Delon, Algiers, Bob le flambeur, Charlie Saroyan, Cinema of France, Classe tous risques, Claude Sautet, Entertainment_Culture, Eric Stark, film, film critic and director, Film genres, film noir, films, foreign films, François Truffaut, French cinema, french directors, french movies, French New Wave, Heist films, Humphrey Bogart, Jacques Becker, Jean Gabin, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jef Costello, Jim Jarmusch, John Woo, Jules Dassin, Julien Duvivier, Le Cercle Rouge, Le Samouraï, Lena, Martin Scorsese, Max le Menteur, Movies, Nathaniel Hood, Neo-noir, Paul Schrader, Pépé le Moko, Pickpocket, Rififi, Riton, Robert Bresson, Taxi Driver, Tirez sur le Pianiste, top 10 films, TopTenz, TopTenz.net, Touchez Pas au Grisbi