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Women In Film

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Women In Film

Adding the voices of rebellious women back into the British film archives

by Hannah Clugston

The pro­duc­er of Born a Rebel speaks about the chal­lenge of doc­u­ment­ing more than a cen­tu­ry of female protest.
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Festivals

How wild women stole the show at the 2018 BFI London Film Festival

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

A crop of com­plex and fas­ci­nat­ing female char­ac­ters were at the heart of this year’s LFF.
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Women In Film

Mommie Dearest: The changing face of maternal horror cinema

by Leila Latif

A Qui­et Place and Hered­i­tary are the lat­est films to chal­lenge ide­alised notions of motherhood.
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Women In Film

A new study confirms that film critics are mostly white men

by Hannah Strong

Encour­ag­ing new voic­es from diverse back­grounds into a stag­nant indus­try can only be a pos­i­tive thing.
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Long Read

In defence of funny women

by Lydia Figes

Female-dri­ven come­dies such as The Mar­vel­lous Mrs Maisel and Fun­ny Cow are chal­leng­ing archa­ic notions about women on screen.
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Women In Film

25 new films by female directors you need to see in 2018

by Shane O’Reilly

Start get­ting excit­ed for new works from Amma Asante, Marielle Heller and Mia Hansen-Løve.
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Women In Film

A brief history of female masturbation in the movies

by Christina Newland

Inspired by The Shape of Water, we sur­vey the var­i­ous ways female self-plea­sure has been portrayed.
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Women In Film

Proud Mary and the return of the black female action hero

by Richard Watson

Tara­ji P Henson’s gun-tot­ing assas­sin harks back to an era of Lola Colt, Foxy Brown and Cleopa­tra Jones.
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Women In Film

Meryl Streep: It’s time for women in Hollywood to seize their moment

by Sarah Bradbury

The actor issued a ral­ly­ing cry at a press con­fer­ence for The Post.
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Women In Film

All The Rage: How angry women powered cinema in 2017

by Nicole Davis

This year film­mak­ers like Alice Lowe have open­ly flout­ed the notion that female char­ac­ters should be likeable.