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WEEK IN WOMEN: Lumiere Festival honors Kinuyo Tanaka with retrospective – Brandy McDonnell reports

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The late, legendary Japanese actor and filmmaker Kinuyo Tanaka will be honored with a retrospective at the 2021 Lumiere Festival, set for Oct. 9-17 in Lyon, France. [Lumiere Festival photo][/caption]The late, legendary Japanese actor and filmmaker Kinuyo Tanaka will be honored with a retrospective at the 2021 Lumiere Festival, set for Oct. 9-17 in Lyon, France.

Every year, the festival offers audiences a retrospective of a female filmmaker whose work has been forgotten or hindered by the conservative context of her era, according to a news release. “The Permanent History of Women Filmmakers” series has enabled the rediscovery of films by Alice Guy, Germaine Dulac, Larissa Shepitko, Muriel Box, Dorothy Arzner, Ida Lupino, Lina Wertmüller and Joan Micklin Silver.

This year, the festival will screen a complete retrospective of the films by Tanaka, the sole female director of the golden age of Japanese cinema, in collaboration with Carlotta Films.

In front of the camera for helmers like Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse and Kenji Mizoguchi, Tanaka first became one of the most celebrated and influential performers in Japanese cinema before making the bold move to directing in an industry that had no female filmmakers. Continue reading on THE WEEK IN WOMEN

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Brandy McDonnell

Brandy McDonnell writes features and reviews movies, music, events and the arts for The Oklahoman, Oklahoma's statewide newspaper, and NewsOK.com, the state's largest news Web site. Raised on a farm near Lindsay, Okla., she started her journalism career in seventh grade, when she was elected reporter for her school's 4-H Club. Taking her duties seriously, she began submitting stories to The Lindsay News, and worked for the local weekly through high school. She attended Oklahoma State University, where she worked for The Daily O'Collegian and earned her journalism degree with honors. She worked for three years at small Oklahoma dailies The Edmond Sun and Shawnee News-Star. In 2002, she joined The Oklahoman as a features reporter, writing about movies, the arts, events, families and nonprofits. She moved to The Oklahoman's entertainment desk in 2007. In 2004, she won a prestigious Journalism Fellowship in Child & Family Policy from the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Along with her membership in AWFJ, she also is a founding member of the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle. Brandy writes The Week In Women blog for AWFJ.org.