Sleepless In Seattle is just one among many popular films directed by Women. It isn’t a great great movie but it is funny and entertaining.
A romantic comedy movie that is less romantic and more funny, directed by NORA EPHRON.
After the death of his wife, Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks) moves to Seattle with his son, Jonah (Ross Mallinger). When Jonah calls in to a talk-radio program to find a new wife for his father, Sam grudgingly gets on the line to discuss his feelings. Annie Reed (Meg Ryan), a reporter in Baltimore, hears Sam speak and falls for him, even though she is engaged. Unsure where it will lead, she writes Sam a letter asking him to meet her at the Empire State Building on Valentine’s Day.
- Please share anything you know about Sleepless In Seattle?
- What other movies do you know are directed by women?
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9. Fish Tank
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Fish Tank, winner of the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize, continues and goes beyond the strong tradition of British social realism. In her second feature film, Andrea Arnold follows the mood and style of her Oscar-winning short Wasp. The main heroine of her authentic and poetic drama set in an Essex estate is an angry teenage girl and would-be dancer, Mia (compelling newcomer Katie Jarvis), looking for a crack in the aquarium of her frustrating life. Mia’s desires connect with her mother’s new boyfriend (Michael Fassbender) will prove naive. Life doesn’t work out like it’s shown on television. Mia’s happy
My favorite woman director is Kathryn Bigelow.
Yes, she directed many popular movies.
Point Break and the Hurt Lockers are the two biggest movie she directed I have watched. I like her too.
Her K19 Widowmaker is pretty damned intense and it is based on a real event.
18. American Psycho
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At first glance a biting satire about the yuppies of Wall Street in the late 1980s, Canadian director Mary Harron’s American Psycho is a timeless masterpiece about greed and the loss of one’s sense of identity, as well as an excellent showcase of the power of the female gaze on the underbelly of male vanity and violence. Based on a novel by Bret Easton Ellis, Harron’s decision to cut out the elements of Penthouse-like male fantasy of the original, and instead bring a sense of reality, makes the blade of her satire even sharper. While Patrick Bateman (delectably performed by a pre-Batman Christian Bale) acts out sexual fantasies and goes on a murderous rampage, audiences are torn as we inwardly recoil in horror but also laugh out loud – not just at the mundane manner of his killings, but also at the recognition of aspects of our own greed. Whether or not one gets the contemporary references to 80s easy listening, this slasher-horror laced with comedy generates intense debate to this day, especially in terms of its ambiguous ending. With characters that are recognisable in all societies of the world, it’s hard to imagine any director eclipsing such a satire.
Nemo Kim, film critic and lecturer at Soon Chun Hyang University, South Korea
This one is totally in my top 10 favorites !! 💖
I watched it twice.
Means good…:))
19. Orlando
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There are moments in Orlando, Sally Potter’s magnificent second feature film, that still provoke gasps today. Re-watching it recently, I was again captivated by a fresh-faced young nobleman (the title character played by Tilda Swinton) blessed with eternal youth by a fading older monarch (Quentin Crisp as Elizabeth I). “Do not fade. Do not wither. Do not grow old,” the dying Queen dramatically instructs.
The film’s epic timeline spans nearly 400 years, and there is something beguiling and deeply lasting about Tilda Swinton’s now-iconic early-career performance as both a man and a woman in the very same role.
It feels too simplistic, by 2019 standards, to celebrate Sally Potter’s empowering Orlando as simply a ‘gender-bending’ tale, because in many ways this story is finally, fully revealed today. Its fluid character is liberatingly not looking to be defined by a narrow, binary label, and that’s a radically hopeful proposition to witness.
Adapted by Potter from the 1928 Virginia Woolf novel written to her lover, writer Vita Sackville-West, Orlando is a movie that many will be talking about – discovering or rediscovering – in the coming months. The 2020 Met Gala, the famed annual fundraising event for New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, and following exhibition, will be themed About Time: Fashion and Duration, and was specifically inspired by Potter’s film.
Eugene Hernandez, deputy director of film at Lincoln Center and co-publisher, Film Comment, US
20. Clueless
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It’s hard to praise Amy Heckerling’s Clueless without parroting its now iconic dialogue. The hyper-specific language, verbal and visual, of the teen comedy is a testament to its brilliance. Just say the title and phrases like ‘as if’ pop into your mouth while yellow plaid miniskirts and architectural hats cloud your vision. Heckerling took Jane Austen’s Emma and got rid of the Regency empire waist gowns, reimagining the meddling matchmaker as the queen of the Beverly Hills high school scene. Thus begat Alicia Silverstone’s Cher Horowitz, a mall-rat power negotiator. Cher, like almost all other characters in Clueless, is both archetype and subversion. She’s a ditz who really isn’t that ditzy at all; she’s a popular girl, who truly is altruistic, even if that altruism is sometimes misguided. Heckerling created a fantasy in primary colours that seems entirely of its era and timeless. It goes without saying that Clueless is a total Baldwin of a movie, and not at all a Monet. Unlike the painting, it gets better the closer you look at it.
Esther Zuckerman, senior entertainment writer, Thrillist, US
21. Winter’s Bone
Love Jennifer Lawrence’s acting in this movie.
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There’s a reason Jennifer Lawrence was the obvious choice to play Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games. That reason was Winter’s Bone, Debra Granik’s terse, lyrical backwoods noir about a hard-bitten 17-year-old (Lawrence) who discovers she has less than a week to track down her bail-skipping father before her family are evicted from the home he’s selfishly put up as collateral. The rabbit-skinning resourcefulness of Lawrence’s character, Ree, certainly makes her performance feel like a real-world blueprint for her work on that aforementioned saga, but it’s also perfectly in sync with Granik’s empathetic, quietly subversive approach, which embeds us in the closed-off world of Missouri’s meth-ravaged Ozark Mountain region and proceeds to find the humanity and complexity in people traditionally portrayed in movies as hillbilly stereotypes or one-note villains or victims. The resulting film – which picked up four Oscar nominations – is both brilliant character study and tense thriller, with Granik’s foregrounding of women and insistence on naturalism subtly exposing the insidious nature of male violence so casually celebrated in the westerns and detective films with which Winter’s Bone shares some DNA.
24. Lady Bird
I like the leading actress in this film.
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Born in 1988, I spent my formative years listening to Nine Inch Nails (and secretly sobbing to Justin Timberlake) and playing Snake on my Nokia. It was the best of times, it was the most embarrassing of times. Greta Gerwig is perhaps the first filmmaker to capture the bitter nostalgia my generation feels towards the early 2000s. Lady Bird, set in Sacramento between the autumn of 2002 and the summer of 2003, is a love letter to growing up, trying on adult outfits and self-importance in spite of knowing very little about anything. The protagonist is an old soul yearning for uniqueness in a conformist Catholic school, played with wide-eyed naiveté by Saoirse Ronan. But the film is also a story about parenthood, raising children and letting go. It starts with Lady Bird and her mother (the divine Laurie Metcalf) lying in bed, and then shows how this symbiotic state is no more. Seldom have I seen such an engrossing and moving portrayal of a mother-daughter relationship on screen.
Anton Vanha-Majamaa, freelance film writer, Finland
https://youtu.be/CDnhh4NEi_U
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/queen-slim-golden-globes-melina-matsoukas-1203433903/
Melina Matsoukas was snubbed for
Queen & Slim
“Melina Matsoukas is an American music video, film, commercial and television director. She is a two-time Grammy Award winner and four-time MTV Video Music Awards winner for her “We Found Love” and “Formation” music videos”
Correct.
Queen and Slim was her 1st Movie as Director.
It filmed in NOLA where I worked on the production as a Background Xtra in the riot scene.
The Script was written by Lena Waithe.
Murn, I am so sorry I went off topic on your thread by posting songs I like in response to G. Hope you will forgive me for doing so going off topic.
Good morning, Jae.
Please don’t be sorry.
You are fine. You only tried to help.
I respect your great attitude on this.
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Thank you Murn for being so kind.
Shonda Rhimes wrote and produced Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal and Crossroads.
Morning, Jae….:)
Yes, Shonda Lynn Rhimes, she is only 50 now and has produced many popular films from wide screens to many great series. Her name too was on TIME Magazine for 100 People Who Help Shape the World. Very impressive and admiring.
Beautiful
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Morning Murn! Yes she is.
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Busta Rhymes wrote a lotta raps
Hello G! Yes but who did he write them for? There are several rappers that wrote rap for others right? This is a nice video, just don’t care for the song.
https://youtu.be/QhIrzbhEGvs
I’m into all genres of music G but I’m outgrowing rap, however, I like this song. Is rap the only music you listen to G?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1TO48Cnl66w
https://youtu.be/KBOR1J2YXHo
No…not at all.
In addition to Pop, RNB, Hip-Hop and Funk…I grew up in DC on our own genre of music known as Go.Go.
I also listened to a lot of Rock music from the 70s-80s.
I also enjoy Smooth Jazz and Fusion….
and some Gospel music.
My fav years for music was 70’s and 80’s and a few of the 90’s. I even go as far back as music my parents listened to. This one was one of my favorites from back in they era.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O0hzu-ShDHc
Eartha Kitt..Sweet.
Do you remember “OUR” song Jae?
*Kitt
No G, I honestly don’t…what was it!
I’ll have to tell u someplace ease my love…wouldn’t wanna get too “off topic”.
Murn seems to be on some power and control trip here.
With due cause G. It’s off topic and whether you like it or not you’re out of line and so was I for responding with music I listen to but it has nothing to do with my feelings. They were just songs. I will apologize to Murn and you should too.
No “due cause“ for that…
this is a Disqus channel
(not that serious at all).
I apologized because I know I was wrong, regardless. Disqus don’t have channels anymore G! This is a tumblr website. You can do what you like, I am respectful to the owners and the posters that post on any site I visit. I am reluctant to say that we will have to part ways my friend. We’re obviously on two different levels.
House fer Shure . Gospel House is glory !
Busta Rhymes has nothing to do with this topic.
Well excuuuuse me for going off-topic Murn.
I was just rubbing my sweetheart.
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Huh? No G!
I like him lots ! 👍
11. The Ascent
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The first time I watched The Ascent, I felt like I was time travelling; I felt the snow, the pain, the cold, the blood, and the suspense. The scene where two soldiers, Sotnikov and Rybak, hide in the attic from the Germans uses camera angles and framing to such great effect that it’s almost too intense. The conflict between the two soldiers carries the story beyond heroism, war, and honour: the angelic look of Sotnikov and the treacherous Rybak’s betrayal…
Yet Rybak might not be the Judas the film suggests: I think he is a human stuck in a horrible reality within the limitations of his own personality. The Ascent is also a true artwork that balances perfectly unsettling anxiety and calming spirituality, with the viewer immediately entering the minds of the characters. It’s so unfortunate that The Ascent was Larisa Shepitko’s last (and best) film. Whenever I watch a Russian film, I remember her and ask myself the same question: what would New Era Soviet cinema be like with her still directing?
Tugce Madayanti Dizici, BirGün Newspaper, Turkey
http://www.bbc.com/culture/gallery/20191125-the-25-greatest-films-directed-by-women
14. Point Break
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Shot by Kathryn Bigelow in the warm golden light of Los Angeles, 1991’s Point Break is a cop’n’surf classic (in fact, the only classic cop’n’surf movie made to date). From the twin irresistibility of blank-but-beautiful Keanu Reeves and a lion-maned Patrick Swayze surfing the waves, to Johnny Utah pumping out bullets to the sky because his bromance with Bodhi has gone too deep for Utah to shoot him, its best moments have passed into movie legend.
Point Break adds to the myth of Los Angeles as an endless summer city, where even crime is fuelled by the desire of its beautiful perpetrators to keep surfing the perfect wave. And waves of nostalgia will wash over modern audiences, too, watching it now; it speaks of a far more innocent time – the Cold War was over and the Ex-Presidents go robbing in Nixon and Reagan masks to a soft metal soundtrack. 9/11 was a whole decade away.
With the ease and style with which she made Point Break, Bigelow showed that she could make an action blockbuster as well as any male director. When she got her Oscar for The Hurt Locker, fans of this film know it deserves to be in the body of work she was rewarded for.
Emma Jones, culture journalist and critic, UK
http://www.bbc.com/culture/gallery/20191125-the-25-greatest-films-directed-by-women
Nice mentions – I know they’re very dissimilar, but I love both those films.
Hi Roach,
Is there another Point Break? 🙂
I have only watched this one.
Hi Murn, by ‘both those films’ I was referring to Point Break and the Hurt Locker.
Now you mention it though, I believe there is another Point Break – a remake, released a few years ago. I haven’t seen it, apparently it wasn’t very good.
Hey Roach,
I am so happy you are here.
Ooookay…..:)
I watched both of them and love them.
The Hurt Locker was more intense.
Remind me who was the actor in another Point Break?
Thanks Murn, nice to hear from you.
Haven’t seen the other Point Break either, but according to google it has Luke Bracey and Teresa Palmer. The original, which I really like, had Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, as you wrote in the original comment. 😎
Then I’d like the Keanu and Patrick version better too…:))
13. Vagabond
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Despite being one of the great films of the French New Wave, Agnès Varda’s film Vagabond isn’t as well-known as the films of her contemporaries. The film follows the story of a young woman found frozen to death in a countryside ditch, the case of which is investigated by the director through fictional interviews and a subsequent reconstruction. Great films often leave some unresolved mystery at their core, an unknowable reality, and this strategy – narrative as fictional reconstruction – suits it admirably.
Mona (Sandrine Bonnaire) worked as a secretary but grew tired of her work, setting off in search of freedom with a few possessions in a knapsack. What is striking about Vagabond is its sense of how impossible it is to live ‘randomly’. Mona is just a normal person; the film isn’t so much about her as the difficulty of shaking off civilisation. It follows the descent of a nonconformist individual seeking freedom into emptiness, vagrancy and, finally, death – suggesting how we have been so domesticated by civilisation that true freedom can only be death.MK Raghavendra, freelance film writer, India
http://www.bbc.com/culture/gallery/20191125-the-25-greatest-films-directed-by-women
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Hi Dear George,
Happy Tuesday.
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Hi dear Murn!!!
It’s good to see you.
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I really enjoyed a movie called “Return to Me” that Bonnie Hunt had something to do with. She also had something to do with Jumanji. She starred in them but she also had a role in their creation as a producer, director or writer.
I am familiar with her face and her smile in Jerry Maguire, Rain Man and The Green Mile, Random Hearts, Kissing A Fool…:)
Yes, she was the producer and the writer of Jumanji and Return to Me.
A talented lady.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/movies/wadjda-by-haifaa-al-mansour-made-in-saudi-arabia.html
a different movie below, also directed by a woman. a documentary, but worth a watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7a-nOOXdtA
I’ve seen it.
But I just realised now that it’s directed by a woman.
Poor the girl but a happy ending.
she gets the bike? no don’t tell me. but did i ear right, does she enter a koran reciting competition?
this documentary wasn’t directed a woman, at least i don’t think so, but the little girl from the maldives steals the show. hell’s box office does some interesting documentaries:
hum: “Removed”???
Yes, the other video was against rule #4, the first one wasn’t directed by women.
https://myneutralchannel.com/site-rules/
Recommended.
I love this movie and in fact, I can near quote it word for word I have seen it so many times. lol
Also if you think about it, it was pretty much the first time we were all really introduced to “text speak” style abbreviations being verbalised. EG: When Jonah heads off to New York and Sam and his friend Jessica was being grilled by both Sam and her parents, she said “NY” and her father thought she meant NO WAY. lol
I actually watched this movie, as well as When Harry Met Sally and also You’ve Got Mail on a flight from LA to Manila just last week. lol
Also Mean Girls; a movie too directed by a woman – the awesome Tina Fey.
Yup it was a 14 hr flight…lol Had to occupy myself. 😀
Thanks, Kiz as always.
I’ve watched it for three times. But you seem to have watched it more than three times. =D
LOL. That’s true on NY that her father thought she meant No Way.
So many other funny stuffs in there. I think the romantic is only about 20%, the rest are all funny, beautiful and entertaining.
I really love how they looked at each other when they finally met and how Sam didn’t stop staring at Annie, holding her hand and then Annie occasionally looked at Sam while talking to Jonah. Love at first sight cyber contact looks real in the movie. It’s probably one among a million to happen in real life.
Those three movies are where Tom and Meg had the great chemistry in the movie.
Made the movies so much enjoyable to watch, looked like real.
Have a restful sleep, Kiz.
Hiya Murn and yes I slept really well. We have finally got some decent rain here and the patter against the window and on the decking roof, was just so comforting to fall asleep to. 🙂
Indeed Ryan and Hanks have a REAL chemistry on screen but it’s not one of passion but one of genuine, once in a lifetime style LOVE? What I did find funny was, Tom’s RL wife playing his sister in Sleepless. lol
I love the little comedic spins of all Ephron’s mcvies. I wonder sometimes if she and Zac Ephron are related as Hollywood, seem to have “dynasties” Barrymore’s, Arquette’s, Hanks, Reiner, ( as example)
Yes, I heard about the rain. I was very happy to hear that. I am sure it is the most desirable solution at this time. Evacuations and rescues for animals are also intensively carried out. Great work.
After the long flight, sleep must be the best hacks for you. Enjoy.
Zac and Nora, they must be related. I haven’t search how close they are like nephew and aunt or maybe mother and son…:)) Will need to search for better information.
Tom’s wife Rita Wilson played Suzy. Actually Suzy played very big role in the movie. And she was so funny… I laugh a lot watching her acting in the movie. Tom must be laughing too.
At minute 0:20 to the end on this scenes, she made me laughed…=DD
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Why focus of what the director had in his/her pants?
Do they direct with their genitals?
don’t you think it has to do with the historical [and in many places still in existence] oppression on women?
No.
lol.
https://nctheatre.com/blog/women-theatre-historical-look
https://sites.google.com/a/oakland.edu/domestic-violence68/history
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/04/hard-earned-gains-for-women-at-harvard/
Thanks. I don’t go to see a movie based on the sex of the director.
Neither do I; posts like this are more about celebrating the fact women ARE getting (mostly) equal opportunity to share their talents in this field as men. It’s about looking at how far we’ve come, not favouritism.
I don’t see it that way. By even mentioning the sex of the director puts an * by the production. It puts the focus on sex rather than acting, cinematography and yes, directing.
Just leave that off and let everyone be judged on their ability.
I promise I do understand your point mate – judging directors on merit alone whilst ignoring irrelevant things like gender etc is a frame of mind closer to equality. A director’s gender does not matter. I get that, honestly.
All I’m saying is in regards to this discussion, that point isn’t really relevant. Murn didn’t post this to make the argument female directors are better or are worth watching solely because they’re female. It’s more about providing evidence female directors can make good films too, and it’s great we’re getting closer to a place of equal opportunity there.
I see your point too. I just reject topics like this out of hand.
This topic is only to show that with the talent and hard work anyone regardless gender can accomplish great work with proud results. Like Sam Smith with his James Bond movie soundtrack. This is a pride for him and for his fans.
This is a neutral site and we don’t discriminate gender.
https://youtu.be/8jzDnsjYv9A
careful, i think steven king just got in trouble for saying that.
the funny thing is, there has always been a best male and best female actors and supporting actors awards, but never a best male and female director awards.
so could you mention the age of the director?
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/stephen-king-oscar-nominations-diversity-art-twitter-ava-duvernay-a9283971.html
nor should you.
Wow… those are wonderful links. I can learn a lot from them.
Thanks, as usual, Mike. *Smile
I save them for my reading list.
I think a few male directors have tried to…
They have certainly used the casting couch to pick talent.
Lost in Translation is no 5 greatest films directed by women, by BBC Culture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_maEh38ZTw
Sofia Coppola masterfully portrays multiple levels of contemporary disorientation in this movie shot in Tokyo, and released in 2003. At one level, a middle-aged man becomes aware of the weak and dull link he has with his wife, after 25 years of marriage, while a young woman who has been married for two years finds herself alone, unable to recognise who she has married, and confused about her professional future. Moreover, both characters – ably performed by Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson – show their confusion and haziness when confronted by a different cultural environment and language.
Coppola depicts them trying to enjoy the Japanese fusion of tradition, post-modernity, technology and escapism. But the escape seems to lead to nothing at the end of the day.
Murray plays Bob, a renowned but faded actor who is filming a commercial in Tokyo. He meets Charlotte (Johansson) in the luxury hotel where she is staying while her husband is away, working. Over conversations about life, marriage, work and children, the two develop a sincere connection – a kind of friendship. The Tokyo lights and streets reflected beautifully on the hotel windows are one of the signatures of this film.
Jacqueline Fowks, El Pais, Peru
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVInsKzApLs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xfb5vYxYk4
BBC Culture put The Piano as their number 1 greatest films directed by women.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61ooIf1QDZo
In writer-director Jane Campion’s Gothic romance and ecstatic monument to the female gaze, a mute Scottish woman named Ada is shipped to 1850s New Zealand to marry a stranger. Once landed, she is separated from her piano, her main instrument of communication. “The piano is mine,” she scribbles to her new husband, who has thoughtlessly sold it to a neighbour. This ownership is everything to Ada, because for all intents and purposes she is the property of others: the man who bought her for his bride; the daughter who demands her absolute attention and affection; the neighbour who barters piano keys for her body. From the scrutiny of a quarter-century removed, The Piano’s sexual politics and artless depiction of indigenous people have aged uncomfortably. And yet, the film has lost none of its potency – not in despite of, but because of, its unruliness. Two more legacies, both bittersweet: in 1993, Campion became the first – and to this day, sole – female filmmaker to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes, while Holly Hunter won the Oscar for her titanic performance as the tiny, steely Ada, only for her future leading roles to dry up.
Kimberley Jones, editor in chief, The Austin Chronicle, US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E2g0LBoPs0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xElXtoO_WmA
Since Penny Marshall died I can’t think of any. I do have to mention that there have been a lot of shitty movies that might have been better with a woman’s touch.
She was a great film director. Had directed many great films.
I watched Awakening. There are many others that are great.
The first woman nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director was Lina Wertmuller for her brilliant production, Seven Beauties. It’s a great film if you haven’t seen it.
That movie from 1975 has been one of the greatest films directer by women.
Yes,she won the Academy Award.
I have only read the synopsis so far and tried to find the full movie online but have only found the movie trailer…:))
Malam Bapak,
Thank you for the recommendation….it is a great movie.
I’m happy to hear that you enjoyed it!
Malam Ibu!
Plot Synopsis and the movie trailer in case some people would want to know..:))
“In 1930s Italy, Pasqualino (Giancarlo Giannini), a low-level Sicilian thug, kills a man who disgraced his sister. Pasqualino pleads insanity and manages to escape imprisonment by joining the military, but he decides to go AWOL when things get too heavy. Unfortunately, he soon finds himself stuck in a concentration camp. There, Pasqualino vows to do anything in order to survive — even if that means seducing an obese, female German camp commandant (Shirley Stoler) or ratting out his own pals.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkxIi3bxFAE
Nice job with that Murni!
Malam!
Thank you
Mimpi manis…:))
https://youtu.be/Acuq4JrI6iI?list=WL
Wendy and Lucy great film directed by a woman (Kelly Reinhardt), Children Of A Lesser God – even better film directed by a woman (Randa Haines?). Oh and Blue Car and the great Dream For An Insomniac with Jennifer Aniston.
Good list….thanks.
I have not seen the last one by Jennifer Aniston although I’ve been fan for her all these years.
No it’s just starring Jennifer Aniston – it was directed by Tiffany De Bartolo apparently. Set in San Francisco, a lot of it takes place in a coffee shop (which makes it seem “Friends” like a bit).But l really liked it – the dialogue is so credible.
Nora Ephron was a great Artist.
Yes, she was also a writer, Journalist and more well known as a filmmaker who was nominated for three times for the best writing for Harry Met Sally, Sleepless In Seattle and Silkwood. Highly talented.
Don’t know much about Sleepless in Seattle other than I really liked it and watched it a couple times since. I know I liked When Harry met Sally. I know Ephron was a journalist who wrote Silkwood and generally brilliant. When I lived where they had a normal amount of movies I went to a hundred or so a year, and would look for the director. Kathryn Bigelow comes to mind with Point Break and later The Hurt Locker. The Hurt Locker was very good and intense and not really the kind of film I would watch over and over . Leni Riefenstahl was brilliant and created effects and techniques still used, Some of her early silent work is very erotic and mesmerizing art even today. She got caught up in politics and was asked to make a propaganda movie, which is probably the most brilliant of that genre ever made, but it wrecked her career. Her life spanned the entire of the Twentieth Century, she lived a hundred years and saw it all, but she is barely remembered. So it goes.
Morning Ron,
I am glad you like Sleepless In Seattle.
It is a funny, engaging and a very entertaining movie.
I watched it more than once too.
Three films that Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan made together and have great chemistry on film include: Sleepless in Seattle (1993), and You’ve Got Mail (1998) and When Harry met Sally.
BBC Culture has The Hurt Locker their no. 7 of the greatest films directed by woman.
I have watched this movie once and I do consider it as a great movie.
And Point Break is their no 14 of the greatest films directed by woman.
That’s very true about The Hurt Locker, it’s intense. I have only watched it once too.
Jeremy Renner, Ralph Fiennes played well in the movie along with all the supporting actors/actresses.
You know much about films, Ron.
Great and thank you for sharing.
I saw it’s been included in the thread and remembered viewing The Piano went first out. It created a stir back then, people tossed around opinions for months. I enjoyed the film, off to a slow start yet with an intense development of its characters. A bit odd when released, perhaps a little dated now but well worth a watch if missed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnvWMSmi2ME
BBC Culture has The Piano as their number 1 Greatest films directed by women.
I think it shows appreciation to have it posted more than once on this simple thread.
Just watched the second time today.
I would recommended it for those who haven’t watch it.
wasn’t the big brouhaha over harvey keitel’s penis?
Mike, what is your problem that you posted some offensive comments here?
The comment that went to pending that I didn’t approve and now this….
i’ll have to edit this one.
Watch out with your next comment.
https://youtu.be/qFJZLsdQtK0
Murn be like…
that was the controvesy that i recall when the piano came out, male full frontal nudity. if that was offensive than clearly this is not a channel for me. too many rules for me to kept track of. please remove me from your list.
i’ll leave you with one more link to ban:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-01-31-ca-17291-story.html
you have a good one murni.
Done and good.
I watched that movie but you shouldn’t mention the genitals name in your comment.
That was too vulgar in a public comment like this and I didn’t feel comfortable reading it.
things are very different here in america. just the other day on the radio they were talking about teaching your kids the proper names for genitals:
https://www.npr.org/2019/12/12/787466794/the-birds-and-the-bees-how-to-talk-to-children-about-sex
Here we do the same too at school, with names and pictures but never be on the radio.
Thank you for the invitation. Great subject.
Good morning, Cherry.
Thank you for stopping by…:))
My pleasure entirely.
We Need to Talk About Kevin is a popular book I don’t particularly like; I consider the message it spends a lot of time pushing to be not only quite uninteresting, but also one I agree with anyway. Sometimes character interactions are too far-fetched for me, and it’s all just to push that message.
Despite that, the film is very well directed by Lynne Ramsay, and Tilda Swinton gives a great performance.
Cool discussion, thanks 🙂
It’s a psychological thriller, only from 2011.
It is also one of the greatest movie directed by women according to BBC Culture.
Haven’t seen it but have read the summary plot.
Nice Recommendation, Roach.
“We Need to Talk About Kevin”
An alarming sense of horror is present from the beginning of We Need to Talk About Kevin. Too soon, we begin to understand exactly why. The story unfolds in frantic cuts through past and present, while director Lynne Ramsay cleverly changes Tilda Swinton’s hair to avoid confusion of timelines. Swinton – in amazing form – is the colourful Eva who is dulled by motherhood and her difficult son. For the most part it’s easy to sympathise with her situation – but then her smallest actions and casual phrases irk and gnaw. Ramsay boldly dives into the impossible question: is Kevin evil because his mother doesn’t love him, or does she not love him because he is evil? There is no answer, only pain. As a viewer you are forced to reflect on what you would do if you were in Eva’s shoes. The film is beautiful, and so is a young Ezra Miller as teenaged-Kevin – but oh so cold. Just like he forever haunts Eva, this film will stay with you forever. It’s really not very pleasant – but we need it.
Ida Rud, freelance film writer, Denmark
http://www.bbc.com/culture/gallery/20191125-the-25-greatest-films-directed-by-women
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Hi Murn, thanks for tagging me.
You are welcome, Purp.
You’ve been on my tagging list since you are back