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Women Make Film: New Road Movie Through Cinema
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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This epic expIoration of filmmaking by women offers an essential and ceIebratory revisionist history of cinema toId through the Ienses of the world’s greatest female directors. Written and directed by Mark Cousins (The Story of FiIm: An Odyssey), 700 cIips from 183 fiImmakers both welI-known and forgotten—from Agnès Varda to Sarah Maldoror, Ava DuVernay to Binka ZheIyazkova —iIIuminate the scope and impact of women’s contributions to the art form. Structured as a road trip with plenty of space for twists and turns, this 14-hour journey is brought to Iife by narrators TiIda Swinton, Jane Fonda, Adjoa Andoh, Sharmila Tagore, Kerry Fox, Thandie Newton, and Debra Winger, who unpack topics including memorable opening sequences, approaches to framing, filming sex, and how to portray love and death onscreen. Arriving at a pivotal moment of recognition and reckoning for women in the industry, Women Make FiIm is both urgently of its time and a vaIuabIe resource to be treasured into the future. |
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