Sexism stands at the door : 11 female film-makers written out of mainstream Hollywood history
The woman stays in the picture … Alice Guy-Blaché, top left, on the France set of The Life of Christ in 1906. Photograph: Everett Collection/Alamy
The woman stays in the picture … Alice Guy-Blaché, top left, on the France set of The Life of Christ in 1906. Photograph: Everett Collection/Alamy
Maya Angelou and Jean Seberg were just some of the women who faced everything from racism and sexism to transphobia, yet produced some of cinema’s most defining pictures
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How do you define a breakthrough film when nearly everything that the talent behind it did was a breakthrough? This much is certain; by 1920, there was no bigger star in the world than Charlie Chaplin. The “Little Tramp” persona that he’d perfected in short films made him an internationally beloved figure. Already the highest paid person in movies with an unusual (for the time) amount of control over his pictures, Chaplin had 68 films under his belt by the time that
The Kid was released. Premiering on January 21, 1921, the movie marked Chaplin’s full-length directorial debut. An instant hit and undeniable classic, the film made a star out of titular child actor Jackie Coogan and revealed that Chaplin had even more potential as an artist.
Show People (1928) to Quentin Tarantino’s elegiac
Once Upon a Time In Hollywood (2019) films about Hollywood, and by extension Los Angeles, have been there from the start of movies and continued in various guises throughout its multifarious history, often with tongue planted firmly in cheek. Throughout the sixties and early seventies several films were produced that spoke of the end of Hollywood as a creative enterprise, that is, as a field in which artists could examine their emotions and ideas and their response to the contemporary world – a civilization in crisis that they sought to describe or explore in depth from within. From Pier Paolo Pasolini’s
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On This Day: Battle of the Bulge begins
On Dec. 16, 1944, Germany launched a counteroffensive in World War II that became known as the Battle of the Bulge.
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Panzergrenadier-SS Kampfgruppe Hansen in action during clashes in Poteau, Belgium, against Task Force Myers, on December 18, 1944, as part of the Battle of the Bulge. File Photo courtesy the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
Re-enactors pour chests of tea into Boston Harbor from a ship at the Boston Tea Party Ship and Museum on December 13, 1998, to celebrate the 225th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. On December 16, 1773, about 50 American patriots, protesting the British tax on tea, dumped 342 chests of it into Boston harbor. File Photo by Lee K. Marriner/UPI | License Photo