Howard (Robert Ryan) has found a body: His employer strangled. Without a moment’s hesitation, Howard flees the scene, runs to the nearest rail yard, and hops aboard the train headed to it-doesn’t-matter-ville. All that matters to Howard is getting the … Continue reading BEWARE, MY LOVELY
If there’s a specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can’t change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. —Kathryn Bigelow Kathryn Bigelow was the fourth … Continue reading Barbara Bridges and Jill S. Tietjen on HOLLYWOOD: HER STORY
On this week’s episode of After Image, I sit down with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo to discuss Kino Lorber‘s newest Blu-ray boxset, Ida Lupino: Filmmaker Collection, and highlight a few horror movies to catch this week around the Front … Continue reading
They say the future of film is female. It is. But so is the past. Maybe that’s not evident upon first glance—certainly not if you page through the standard history books—because critics, historians, and filmmakers, mostly male, like to focus … Continue reading Ida Lupino: Filmmaker Collection
My agent had told me that he was going to make me the Janet Gaynor of England—I was going to play all the sweet roles. Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing … Continue reading Born On This Day — February 4, 1918
I’d love to see more women working as directors and producers. Today it’s almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power. . . I wouldn’t hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman … Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, February 4, 2013
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