Women Filmmakers
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Movie + 5 extrasMy Brilliant Career
Movie + 5 extras
Criterion Collection Edition #973
Directed by Gillian Armstrong • 1979 • Australia
Starring Judy Davis, Sam NeillFor her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin’s novel, a celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian coming-of-ag...
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1 seasonScreenwriter: Suso Cecchi d’Amico
1 season
She wrote and collaborated on the scripts for some of the most renowned films of Italian cinema’s extraordinarily fertile postwar era, but master screenwriter Suso Cecchi d’Amico has often been overshadowed by the directorial titans she worked with over the course of her career. This survey—culle...
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1 seasonDirected by Věra Chytilová
1 season
No director pushed the boundaries of the Czechoslovak New Wave further than Věra Chytilová, an uncompromising individualist whose fiercely antiauthoritarian attitude courses through every frame of her work. Though she remains best known for her feminist touchstone DAISIES—a patriarchy-exploding M...
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1 seasonShorts for Days: Women Auteurs
1 season
Themes of teenage rebellion and fraught family dynamics run through these early shorts by groundbreaking directors Sofia Coppola, Chantal Akerman, Agnès Varda, Jane Campion, and Andrea Arnold.
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Movie + 5 extrasWanda
Movie + 5 extras
Criterion Collection Edition #965
Directed by Barbara Loden • 1970 • United States
Starring Barbara Loden, Michael HigginsWith her first and only feature film—a hard-luck drama she wrote, directed, and starred in—Barbara Loden turned in a groundbreaking work of American independent cinema, bri...
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Movie + 6 extrasSmithereens
Movie + 6 extras
Criterion Collection Edition #941
Directed by Susan Seidelman • 1982 • United States
Susan Seidelman established her distinctive vision of New York City with this debut feature, the lo-fi original for her vibrant portraits of women reinventing themselves. After escaping New Jersey, the quintess...