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It was a surprise to many when when filmmaker Ava DuVernay was not on the list of Academy Award nominees for the 2015 Best Director despite her widely hailed work on “Selma.” Then again, Kathryn Bigelow’s 2010 Oscar win for “The Hurt Locker” didn’t exactly usher in a new dawn for female filmmakers. It’s a boy’s club, this movie world. You know it is. Read on…
Read moreMany of the films in the recently concluded 52nd New York Film Festival will fill theaters, fuel discussions, and collect awards for months to come. Topping the list is Citizenfour, a late edition to the tightly edited festival’s main slate of 31 features. Other films of particular interest include Birdman, Inherent Vice, and The Wonder.
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It’s puzzling that Hollywood players, pundits and prognosticators continue to palaver about the lack of femme-helmed films, while improvement in the stats remains so elusive. Let’s let the French shed some light on our domestic dilemma. As this year’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema program attests, the French seen to work women directors equally into their standard film production equation. Read on…
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