Tag: Weekly Feminist Film Question

Hey film lovers! Here’s this week’s feminist film question. Who is your favorite female film director?  Here’s what you said (along with some of their films):

Chantal Akerman — Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles; A Couch in New York; The Captive; Tomorrow We Move

Gillian Armstrong — Little Women, My Brilliant Career, Oscar and Lucinda, The Last Days of Chez Nous, Charlotte Gray

Dorothy Arzner — Dance, Girl, Dance; The Wild Party; The Bride Wore Red; Christopher Strong; Working Girls

Kathryn Bigelow — The Hurt Locker, Strange Days, Point Break, Near Dark, The Weight of Water, Blue Steel

Jane Campion — The Piano, Bright Star, Sweetie, In the Cut, Holy Smoke!, An Angel at My Table, Portrait of a Lady

Niki Caro — Whale Rider, North Country

Brenda Champman — Brave, The Prince of Egypt

Lisa Cholodenko — The Kids Are All Right, High Art, Laurel Canyon

Sofia Coppola — Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette, The Virgin Suicides, Somewhere

Maya Deren — Meshes of the Afternoon, At Land, A Study in Choreography for the Camera, Rituals in Transfigured Time, Meditation on Violence

Ava DuVernay — I Will Follow, Middle of Nowhere

Nora Ephron — Sleepless in Seattle, Julie & Julia, You’ve Got Mail, This Is My Life, Mixed Nuts

Su Friedrich — Damned If You Don’t, Gently Down the Stream, The Odds of Recovery, Hide and Seek, The Ties That Bind

Debra Granik — Winter’s Bone

Alice Guy-Blaché — Algie the Miner, La Fée aux Choux, Matrimony’s Speed Limit

Mary Harron — American Psycho, The Moth Diaries, I Shot Andy Warhol, The Notorious Bettie Page

Amy Heckerling — Clueless, Vamps, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Look Who’s Talking, National Lampoon’s European Vacation

Nicole Holofcener — Please Give, Friends with Money, Lovely & Amazing, Walking and Talking

Matia Karrell — Behind the Red Door, Once Upon a Wedding

Kasi Lemmons — Eve’s Bayou, The Caveman’s Valentine, Talk to Me

Ida Lupino — Outrage, The Trouble with Angels, The Bigamist, The Hitch-Hiker, Never Fear

Deepa Mehta — Fire, Earth, Water, Heaven on Earth

Nancy Meyers — It’s Complicated, Something’s Gotta Give, The Holiday, What Women Want, The Parent Trap

Mira Nair — Monsoon Wedding, Amelia, The Namesake, Salaam Bombay!, Mississippi Masala

Kimberly Peirce — Boys Don’t Cry, Stop-Loss 

Sarah Polley — Take This Waltz, Away from Her 

Sally Potter — Orlando, Yes, The Man Who Cried, The Tango Lesson

Yvonne Rainer — The Man Who Envied Women, MURDER and Murder, Privilege

Lynne Ramsay — We Need to Talk about Kevin, Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar

Dee Rees — Pariah, Eventual Salvation

Kelly Reichardt — Meek’s Cutoff, Wendy and Lucy, River of Grass, Old Joy

Angela Robinson — D.E.B.S., Herbie: Fully Loaded

Barbra Streisand — Yentl, The Prince of Tides, The Mirror Has Two Faces