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| From Chapter 3: Believability. Selma / Ava DuVernay, GB/US 2014. Screenshot from the Women Make Film website. Please click to enlarge! |
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| From Chapter 4: Introducing a Character. Tsuki wa noborinu / 月は上りぬ / The Moon Has Risen / Kinuyo Tanaka, JP 1955. Screenshot from the Women Make Film website. |
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| From Chapter 5: Meet Cute. Yek. Do. Yek / یک، دو، یک / One. Two. One / Mania Akbari, IR 2011. Screenshot from the Women Make Film website. |
Women Make Film. A New Road Movie Through Cinema
Women Make Film. Uusi matka elokuvaan
GB © 2019 How To Make A Movie Ltd. PC: Hopscotch Films. P: John Archer. EX: Clara Glynn, Tilda Swinton. Assistant P: Sonali Choudhury. Associate P: Carl Beauchamp, Catherine Glynn Benkaim, Barbara Timmer.
D+SC: Mark Cousins. Sound mixing: Diane Jardine. S: Joe Harfield. ED+script consultant: Timo Langer. Online: Chas Chalmers. Edit assistant: Scott Bilsbrough. P coordinator: Mhairi Valentine. P team: David Brown, Rowan Ings, Raja Kryda. World Sales: Dogwoof. Head of sales: Ana Vicente. Legal: David Burgess.
https://www.womenmakefilm.com/
14 hours
Festival premiere: 1 Sep 2018 Venice Film Festival
Finnish telepremieres of the 14 episodes: 3.3.2020, 10.3.2020, 17.3.2020, 24.3.2020, 1.4.2020, 8.4.2020, 15.4.2020
Corona lockdown viewings.
Yle Areena.
Viewed on a 4K tv set at home in Helsinki, 12 April 2020.
Official synopsis: "The epic, four years in the making, still in production, is made up of forty “chapters” to be narrated by Tilda Swinton, Jane Fonda and other key women in cinema, still to be announced. Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema follows in the footsteps of Mark Cousins’ The Story of Film: An Odyssey, to give us a guided tour of the art and craft of the movies. Using almost a thousand film extracts from thirteen decades and five continents, Cousins asks how films are made, shot and edited; how stories are shaped and how movies depict life, love, politics, humour and death, all through the compelling lens of some of the world’s greatest directors – all of them women."
Episode 2/14: Believability, Introducing a Character, Meet Cute
Jakso 2/14: Toden tuntu ja henkilöt
Narrator: Tilda Swinton
Finnish / Swedish subtitles: Jaana Wiik / Ann-Sofi Pettersson
Chapter 3. Believability
Warum ist Frau B. glücklich? / Why is Frau B Happy? / Erika Runge, DE 1968 [unreleased in Finland]
The Hurt Locker / The Hurt Locker / Kathryn Bigelow, US 2008
El camino / Ana Mariscal, ES 1963 [unreleased in Finland]
Lore / Lore / Cate Shortland, DE/AU/GB 2012
Chto by ty vybral? / Что бы ты выбрал? / Which Would You Choose? / Dinara Asanova, tvm, SU 1981
Meek's Cutoff / Meek's Cutoff / Kelly Reichardt, US 2010
Hedi Schneider steckt fest / Hedi Schneider is Stuck / Sonja Heiss, DE 2015 [unreleased in Finland]
Chto by ty vybral? / Что бы ты выбрал? / Which Would You Choose? / Dinara Asanova, tvm, SU 1981
Toni Erdmann / Isäni Toni Erdmann / Maren Ade, DE/AU/CH/RO 2016
Point Break / Myrskyn ratsastajat / Kathryn Bigelow, US 1991
The Blot / Lois Weber, US 1921
Frozen River / Frozen River / Courtney Hunt, US 2008
Selma / Ava DuVernay, GB/US 2014
Not a Pretty Picture / Martha Coolidge, US 1976 [unreleased in Finland]
Sib / سیب / The Apple / Omena / Samira Makhmalbaf, IR/FR 1998
Chapter 4. Introducing A Character
Tsuki wa noborinu / 月は上りぬ / The Moon Has Risen / Kinuyo Tanaka, JP 1955 [unreleased in Finland]
Deutschland bleiche Mutter / Germany Pale Mother / Saksa, kalvas äiti / Helma Sanders-Brahms, DE 1980
Somewhere / Somewhere / Sofia Coppola, US 2010
Nana / Valérie Massadian, FR 2011 [unreleased in Finland]
The Connection / Shirley Clarke, US 1961 [unreleased in Finland]
The Watermelon Woman / The Watermelon Woman / Cheryl Dunye, US 1996
Wayne's World / Wayne's World / Penelope Spheeris, US 1992
Fish Tank / Fish Tank / Andrea Arnold, GB/NL 2009
Bande de filles / Girlhood / Céline Sciamma, FR 2015 [unreleased in Finland]
Toni Erdmann / Isäni Toni Erdmann / Maren Ade, DE/AU/CH/RO 2016
Povest plamennykh let / Повесть пламенных лет / The Story of the Flaming Years / Liekehtivän taivaan alla / Yuliya Solntseva, SU 1961
Chapter 5. Meet Cute
Kranes konditori / Krane's Confectionery / Astrid Henning-Jensen, NO 1951 [unreleased in Finland]
Korotkie vstrechi / Короткие встречи / Brief Encounters / Lyhyitä kohtaamisia / Kira Muratova, SU 1968
La Coquille et le clergyman / The Seashell and the Clergyman / Germaine Dulac, FR 1928
The Heartbreak Kid / Sydäntenmurskaaja / Elaine May, US 1972
Grand central / Rebecca Zlotowski, FR/AT 2013 [unreleased in Finland]
Yek. Do. Yek / یک، دو، یک / One. Two. One / Mania Akbari, IR 2011 [unreleased in Finland]
Die Besucherin / The Visitor / Lola Randl, DE 2008 [unreleased in Finland]
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night / A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night / Ana Lily Amirpour, US 2014
Yaksha gaanam / യക്ഷഗാനം / Sheela, IN 1976 [language: Malayalam] [unreleased in Finland]
Wanda / Barbara Loden, US 1970 [unreleased in Finland]
Sans toit ni loi / Vagabond / Kuin taivaan lintu / Agnès Varda, FR 1985
Trecatoarele iubiri / Fleeting Loves / Ohikiitävät rakkaudet / Ohikulkevat rakkaudet / Malvina Ursianu, RO 1974
Töte mich / Kill Me / Emily Atef, DE/FR/CH 2012 [unreleased in Finland]
Trolösa / Faithless / Uskoton / Liv Ullmann, SE/IT/DE/FI/NO 2000
AA: In my blog entry on the first episode of Women Make Film I jotted down some general remarks about Mark Cousins's wild and wonderful mega compilation. His forty thematic chapters are for me mostly excuses to screen a lot of exciting clips from films well-known and unknown. There is never a dull moment.
I keep discovering completely new works – such as a Malayalam language horror film called Yaksha gaanam by Sheela. It is also wonderful to revisit here the Romanian director Malvina Ursianu whose films were screened at the Finnish Film Archive and on Finnish television almost 50 years ago. From Kinuyo Tanaka I have only seen Eternal Breasts; Cousins's clips whet my appetite to see all. Lois Weber's The Blot seems both timeless and topical after the 2008 crash which increased poverty everywhere. The corona pandemic will make scenes like this even more topical, we all fear.
The discourse is full of provocative ideas. Mark Cousins is not a preacher but a teacher in the school of Plato's Academy: he urges us to question him and think for ourselves. For instance about the punctum theory of believability. And about the advice of doing it in real time if you want to achieve believability.
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