The 100 Best Movies Written by Women
Welcome to our guide of the best movies written by women: These are highly Certified Fresh films (nothing on the list falls below 94%) whose screenplay credit goes in part or fully to women.
The journey begins nearly a century ago with 1925’s
Battleship Potemkin, written by Nina Agadzhanova, inspired by her own participation in Soviet uprisings. Just two years later,
Metropolis, cinema’s first sci-fi feature masterpiece, emerged out of Germany, written by Thea von Harbou. The 1930s were one of those peak decades for movies, in no small part thanks to
King Kong (co-written by Ruth Rose),
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Henry Lloyd-Hughesâs Twitter bio states that he is âthe most famous actor youâve never heard ofâ. It is a line that appeared in a magazine profile of him last year. There is another profile, from five years earlier, that says roughly the same thing. He is a fantastic actor with a near flawless CV; if only he could somehow land that career-defining role that would push him over the top.
âItâs remarkable,â laughs Lloyd-Hughes, 35. âThe false dawns Iâve had. Iâm like the Teflon Don. You can put success near me, you can put me in the biggest-grossing British sitcom of all time, but it doesnât touch me. It just runs off me. Fame can come this close to me and yet it leaves no trace. Iâm immune to success.â
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Alan McGee: ‘I was called a lightweight when I went sober’ (Press image)
I think the rock’n’roll lifestyle is f ing bulls t,” says Alan McGee, former manager of the biggest rock’n’roll band in the world. “If anybody’s into that I pity them, to be honest. There are loads of people my age – in their fifties and sixties – still caning it. That’s frightening.”
The Creation Records label co-founder, whose colourful life is the subject of a new biopic written by fellow Scotsman Irvine Welsh, is very aware he risks sounding like a hypocrite. McGee and several of the rock bands he managed were notorious in the late Eighties and early Nineties for their drug and alcohol-fuelled antics. But McGee gave it all up aged 32 – with one exception. He was prescribed Valium for anxiety after suffering a nervous breakdown in 1994 (“they used to hand them out like sweeties”) and only managed to ditch it a few years ago. Oasis w