• 2020
  • TV-14
  • 14h
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema

Summary A documentary that spans 13 decades and five continents to give a guided tour of the art and craft of movies as told by female filmmakers. View more details

  • 2020
  • TV-14
  • 14h

Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Jane Fonda Tilda Swinton Sharmila Tagore Adjoa Andoh

All cast & crew

7.7

Details

Genres : History Documentary

Release date : May 17, 2020

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Filming locations : Mahwah, New Jersey, USA

Production companies : Hopscotch Films

Summary A documentary that spans 13 decades and five continents to give a guided tour of the art and craft of movies as told by female filmmakers. View more details

Details

Genres : History Documentary

Release date : May 17, 2020

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Filming locations : Mahwah, New Jersey, USA

Production companies : Hopscotch Films

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Antonia Bird, Jane Campion, Angelina Jolie, Sally Potter, Adjoa Andoh, Maya Deren, Safi Faye, Alice Guy, Pirjo Honkasalo, Ann Hui, Marva Nabili, Sumitra Peries, Lynne Ramsay, Tilda Swinton, Kinuyo Tanaka, Moufida Tlatli, Wendy Toye, Agnès Varda, Lois Weber, Binka Zhelyazkova, Clio Barnard, and Mania Akbari in Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018) Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018) Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018) Kerry Fox in Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018) Thandiwe Newton in Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018) Tilda Swinton in Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018) Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018) Jane Fonda and Mark Cousins in Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018) Mark Cousins at an event for Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018) Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018) Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018) Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018) Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018)

Episodes

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Episode 1 • Mar 07, 2023
Openings, Tone
Productions from around the world ranging from 1943 to 2013 reveal varied ways to open a film to set the tone.
Episode 2 • Mar 07, 2023
Believability, Character, Meet Cute
Directors discuss how to create believability in characters and interactions while telling simple human stories.
Episode 3 • Mar 07, 2023
Conversation, Framing, Tracking
Directors detail filming a conversation; Angela Schanelec focuses on body language in Places in Cities; Cecile Tang uses the zoom as a guide through the emotional shifts in The Arch.
Episode 4 • Mar 07, 2023
Staging, Journey, Discovery
Scene staging originates from cinema's roots in theatre; Kinuyo Tanaka uses staging to shape a scene's invisible geometry and accentuate tension between characters in The Moon Has Risen.
Episode 5 • Mar 07, 2023
Adult-Child, Economy, Editing
Directors including Jocelyn Moorhouse, Ida Lupino, Sofia Coppola, Kelly Reichart, Jennifer Kent, and others demonstrate the art of point of view, perspective, and editing.
Episode 6 • Mar 07, 2023
Point of View, Close Ups, Surrealism and Dreams
India's great film star Sharmila Tagore talks about dreams in movies, with examples ranging from Wayne's World through experimental film to Sally Potter. Jane Fonda continues to talk about bodies.
Episode 7 • Mar 07, 2023
Bodies, Sex
Directors including Agnes Varda, Andrea Arnold, Marva Nabili, Pirjo Honkasalo, Marta Meszaros, and Wanda Jakubows discuss bodies and sex in cinema.
Episode 8 • Mar 07, 2023
Home, Religion, Work
Sharmila Tagore narrates the story of home, religion, and work in movies by Edith Carlmar, Lynne Ramsay, Mai Zetterling, Liu Jiay-in, Antonia Bird, and others.
Episode 9 • Mar 07, 2023
Politics, Gear Change, Comedy
From silent movies to cinema of the twenty-first century, some films gain energy from politics such as The Enchanted Desna, Divorce Iranian Style, Strange Days.
Episode 10 • Mar 07, 2023
Melodrama, Sci-Fi, Horror & Hell
Sharmila Tagore reveals some of the secrets of melodrama from Kira Muratova's Chekhov's Motifs to Binka Zhelyazkova's We Were Young.
Episode 11 • Mar 07, 2023
Tension, Stasis, Leave Out
Directors explore gripping scenes in thrillers and other types, including Kathryn Bigelow's Blue Steel, Carol Morley's Dreams of a Life, and Mimi Leder's Peacemaker.
Episode 12 • Mar 07, 2023
Reveal, Memory, Time
Cinema as a kind of time machine as shown in the films by Lynne Ramsay, Kinuyo Tanaka, Sarah Polley, and Alice Rohrwacher.
Episode 13 • Mar 07, 2023
Life Inside, the Meaning of Life, Love
Directors talk about how films in France, Ukraine, Britain, America, New Zealand, and Algeria reflect the meaning of life and love.
Episode 14 • Mar 07, 2023
Death, Endings, Song and Dance
Various female filmmakers such as Kinuyo Tanaka, Caroline Leaf, Ana Mariscal, Paula Van der Oest, and others talk about how they deal with the universal subject of death.
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