Barton_Keyes Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Beginning this October and continuing each October for the next three years, TCM will be presenting a new series of programming lamenting the lack of gender equity in Hollywood and celebrating the achievements of female filmmakers. This series will be presented in conjunction with Women in Film. For more on this new programming initiative, visit http://deadline.com/2015/06/turner-classic-movies-tcm-gender-inequality-film-women-in-film-1201445747/. More information on Women in Film is available at the organization's website, http://www.wif.org. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Barton you do come up with the scoops! I hope that they take the opportunity to show some of the marvellous indie films that women have been making in the past twenty years. There are dozens of titles that received critical acclaim but very little subsequent exposure on television. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM108 Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Beginning this October and continuing each October for the next three years, TCM will be presenting a new series of programming lamenting the lack of gender equity in Hollywood and celebrating the achievements of female filmmakers. This series will be presented in conjunction with Women in Film. For more on this new programming initiative, visit http://deadline.com/2015/06/turner-classic-movies-tcm-gender-inequality-film-women-in-film-1201445747/. More information on Women in Film is available at the organization's website, http://www.wif.org. This sounds terrific, and hopefully it won't be topheavy with the same old films we've seen a hundred times over, but rather will feature lots of newer works that TCM has never had before. I'm sure there'll be some snoozers and duds in the mix, but better to try and fail than never to try at all. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 This sounds terrific, and hopefully it won't be topheavy with the same old films we've seen a hundred times over, but rather will feature lots of newer works that TCM has never had before. I'm sure there'll be some snoozers and duds in the mix, but better to try and fail than never to try at all. Yeah, a big IF. Hope its not the usual suspects recycled under another umbrella........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Fine idea Thanks, Barton.... “The issue of gender inequality in the film industry is both timely and immensely important to shine a light on,” said TCM’s general manager Jennifer Dorian. “We’re thrilled to partner with such a well-respected organization as Women in Film in order to address and promote the empowerment of women in our industry.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 As I mentioned previously if one wanted to look at female directors and highlight films that have garnered critical acclaim but do not get the subsequent push on television then I think it best to look to films made in the last 30 years. Here are some I would like to see from just 1990 through 1995: American Dream (1990) Barbara Kopple Iron & Silk (1990) Shirley Sun Daughters of the Dust (1991) Julie Dash Paradise (1991) Agnes Donogheux The Man Without a World (1992) Eleanor Antin The Panama Deception (1992) Barbar Trent *good luck having a major tv company show this Oscar winning documentary The Ballad of Little Jo (1993) Maggie Greenwald Household Saints (1993) Nancy Savoca Lost In Yonkers (1993) Martha Coolidge When Pigs Fly (1993) Sarah Driver Angie (1994) Martha Coolidge Mi Vida Loca: My Crazy Life (1994) Allison Anders River of Grass (1994) Kelly Riechardt Tollbooth (1994) Salome Breziner Party Girl (1995) Daisy von Scherler The Perez Family (1995) Mira Nair Unstrung Heroes (1995) Diane Keaton 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Gorman Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 I expect TCM to air movies directed by Dorothy Arzner and Ida Lupino, but probably not any of the four 1980s movies directed by JACKIE KONG. I've seen 3 of the 4 movies she directed: BEING, The (1983) Filmed in 1980 as "Easter Sunday". NIGHT PATROL (1984) BLOOD DINER (1987) (Unrated) I've not seen 'THE UNDERACHIEVERS" . . . yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barton_Keyes Posted June 18, 2015 Author Share Posted June 18, 2015 As this series is planned to recur every October for three years, I expect that this will be an extensive examination of the contribution of women filmmakers, spanning from the pioneers like Lois Weber, Frances Marion and Dorothy Arzner right up to the modernity of Jane Campion, Sophia Coppola and Kathryn Bigelow 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Here are a few more American films directed by women in case any of the programmers should be dropping in to read this thread. From 1996 to 1999 Grace of My Heart (1996) Allison Anders starring Illeana Douglas The Line King: The Al Hirschfield Story (1996) Susan Warms Dryfoos The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) Barbra Streisand starring Lauren Bacall The Preacher's Wife (1996) Penny Marshall A Very Brady Sequel (1996) Arlene Sanford All I Wanna Do (1998) Sarah Kernochan Colors Straight Up (1998) Michele Ohayon Madeline (1998) Daisy von Sherler Meyer Polish Wedding (1998) Theresa Connelly Ravenous (1998) Antonia Bird Shadrack (1998) Susanna Styron Whatever (1998) Susan Skoog Wild Man Blues (1998) Barbara Kopple The Third Miracle (1999) Agnieszka Holland All of these films have received at least some good reviews. I don't think it would break the bank to get the rights to screen them on television. And it would be nice to support these 'living' filmmakers, some of whom are probably struggling to get their next films made. There are many films like this to be explored. It just takes a little imagination. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrinceSaliano Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Beginning this October and continuing each October for the next three years, TCM will be presenting a new series of programming lamenting the lack of gender equity in Hollywood and celebrating the achievements of female filmmakers. This series will be presented in conjunction with Women in Film. For more on this new programming initiative, visit http://deadline.com/2015/06/turner-classic-movies-tcm-gender-inequality-film-women-in-film-1201445747/. More information on Women in Film is available at the organization's website, http://www.wif.org. October should be devoted to horror films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 October should be devoted to horror films. There are enough days in every month for some variety. One or two days a week during October for horror films is enough for me, especially since TCM doesn't show many of the Universal horror classis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 October should be devoted to horror films. You mean Universal horror films, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 There are enough days in every month for some variety. One or two days a week during October for horror films is enough for me, especially since TCM doesn't show many of the Universal horror classis. Well, another thing that should be mentioned is horror airs on TCM year round. If it was only relegated to October, then some decent films in this genre would receive scant airplay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 As this series is planned to recur every October for three years, I expect that this will be an extensive examination of the contribution of women filmmakers, spanning from the pioneers like Lois Weber, Frances Marion and Dorothy Arzner right up to the modernity of Jane Campion, Sophia Coppola and Kathryn Bigelow I think so, too. The initial year in the series will probably feature someone like Alice Guy Blache. She was the first female director. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Guy-Blach%C3%A9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikisoo Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Grace of My Heart (1996) Allison Anders starring Illeana Douglas The Line King: The Al Hirschfield Story (1996) Susan Warms Dryfoos I've seen both of those and liked them both very much. GRACE OF MY HEART is loosely based on Carole King and the Brill Building hit phenomenon. I always enjoy Illeana Douglas. The LINE KING is a laugh riot! The images of Hirschfeld driving his caddy in NYC is burned in my brain! A Very Brady Sequel (1996) Arlene Sanford You've GOT to be kidding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 I've never seen A Very Brady Sequel. In fact, other than a few seconds when flipping the dial I have never seen the Brady Bunch show either. The movie, A Very Brady Sequel is supposed to be a send up of their own show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikisoo Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 I can understand Robert Reed's embarrassment over his participation in the show. I was the right age when it first aired and I even thought it was awful. It was just as insipid as Gilligan's Island-like a bunch of Laurels with no Hardys. Any 10th grader could have written the episodes which seemed to have been purposely acted in a stilted way. How could you parody something that was a parody in the first place? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
film lover 293 Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 I would like to see some early Dorothy Arzner that hasn't been shown--there are no TCM articles or reviews. Sarah and Son (1930)--early Ruth Chatterton piece. Merrily We Go to He** (1932)--Early Cary Grant, Sylvia Sidney, & Fredric March Nana (1934)--based on a Tolstoy(?) novel. Was Anna Sten, Samuel Goldwyns' choice as "The New Garbo" Really as bad as contemporary reviewers said? I'd like the chance to see for myself. Co-starring Lionel Atwill. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Suggestion: The Devil's Plaything (1927) Dir: Olga Preobrazhenskaya, B&W, 67 minutes Quiet Flows the Don (1930) Dir: Olga Preobrazhenskaya, B&W, 91 minutes Paths of Enemies (1935) Dir: Olga Preobrazhenskaya, B&W, 72 minutes Cinderella (1947) Dir: Nadezhda Kosheverova, B&W, 80 minutes Tiger Girl (1954) Dir: Nadezhda Kosheverova, B&W, 100 minutes Be Careful, Grandma (1961) Dir: Nadezhda Kosheverova, Color, 86 minutes Yegor Bulychov (1953) Dir: Yuliya Solntseva, B&W, 150 minutes The Story of the Flaming Years (1961) Dir: Yuliya Solntseva, Color, 91 minutes Brief Encounters (1968) Dir: Kira Muratova, B&W, 95 minutes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 I would like to see some early Dorothy Arzner that hasn't been shown--there are no TCM articles or reviews. Sarah and Son (1930)--early Ruth Chatterton piece. Merrily We Go to He** (1932)--Early Cary Grant, Sylvia Sidney, & Fredric March Nana (1934)--based on a Tolstoy(?) novel. Was Anna Sten, Samuel Goldwyns' choice as "The New Garbo" Really as bad as contemporary reviewers said? I'd like the chance to see for myself. Co-starring Lionel Atwill. NANA has aired on TCM (not long ago in fact). The other two are Paramount talkies and harder to come by. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Maybe a woman should have directed "The Swarm", becuase no one could have done a worse job of it than Irwin Allen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kay Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Cool list, SansFin! I was thinking this is what it might take to get something by Leni Riefenstahl shown on TCM. Unfortunately it appears that this is going to be a celebration of gender inequity in Hollywood, or something of the sort. I guess other countries which have always been more progressive in this regard don't warrant the recognition? Cluck, cluck, cluck... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 All of these films have received at least some good reviews. How about TCM showing only films that have received a lot of good reviews, without regard to which gender directed them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM108 Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 (edited) TikiSoo Posted Yesterday, 06:24 AM The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story (1996) Susan Warms Dryfoos The LINE KING is a laugh riot! The images of Hirschfeld driving his caddy in NYC is burned in my brain! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Never heard of it before, but since this is 2015, here it is already on YouTube: [...] My favorite Hirschfeld book is a Prohibition era tome called Manhattan Oases, New York's 1932 Speak-Easies, which has Hirschfeld's sketches of his favorite watering holes. The best one has a picture of a cherubic-looking baby above a bar, relieving himself in a river, with a cautionary note underneath that reads "NEVER DRINK WATER". Edited June 22, 2015 by TCMModerator1 Removed full video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 How about TCM showing only films that have received a lot of good reviews, without regard to which gender directed them? Please NO! I don't wish for TCM to only show films based on the opinions of critics. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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