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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
Known to some as “avant-garde” and to others as “underground”, there is a distinct genre of film known as “experimental” that exists solely to further and explore the process of filmmaking. Usually made by artists who operate outside of the commercial mainstream, experimental films are usually made cheaply with very low budgets. They frequently contain [...]
Posted by Nathanael Hood on Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Art, Bizarre, Movies · Tagged A Movie, Alexander Hammid, Bruce Byron, Bruce Conner, Chien Andalou, Deanna Durbin, director, Dog Star Man, Entertainment_Culture, Experimental film, film, Fireworks, Flaming Creatures, Jack Smith, Joseph Cornell, Kenneth Anger, Luis Buñuel, Martin Scorsese, Maya Deren, Meshes of the Afternoon, Michael Snow, Rose Hobart, Salvador Dali, Short films, Stan Brakhage, the Toronto International Film Festival, Un chien andalou, underground artist, Underground film, Wavelength