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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Hilarious campaign from BBH celebrates the many weird and wonderful ways customers pick their horses
Leading betting brand Ladbrokes prepares for the return of the Cheltenham Festival (16th-19th March) with the launch of a new campaign that celebrates how customers pick their horses for the races. Leaning on its enduring brand promise of ‘Ladbrokes is where the nation plays’, the campaign reminds the public that however they pick their horse, Ladbrokes has a bet for them.
Created by Olivia Shortland and Stephanie Flynn, the film, directed by Stacy Wall of Rogue Films, features people from all walks of life talking directly to camera about what they look for when looking for ‘the one.’ Whether it’s simply the connection or ‘good vibe,’ the eyelashes or the lean, muscular build, the confidence or the pride, each scene beautifully captures the unique criteria that sits behind each character’s selection.
Experts have noted that there is quality help available for those people who are trying to quit vices that were acquired during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, such as excessive drinking and eating, gambling, and unnecessary spending.
A crowd gathered outside the Knickerbocker Theater a few days after its roof collapsed. (Source: Library of Congress)
Washington, D.C. has been battered by some brutal winter storms, but none has been more lethal than the blizzard that hit the District in late January 1922. Today, that two-day storm is still remembered as the Knickerbocker Blizzard. That s in grim recognition of 98 people who lost their lives and the 133 who were injured in the catastrophic roof collapse that it caused at Crandall s Knickerbocker Theater, once the District s biggest and grandest movie house.
The Knickerbocker, located at Columbia Road and 18th Street Northwest in Adams Morgan, was one of the jewels in the crown of local movie entrepreneur Harry M. Crandall, who himself was one of Washington s most stirring Horatio Alger stories. As a 1922
Marie Johnson Cunningham of Florence, age 102, succumbed to the COVID 19 Virus on Wed. December 16. She was the widow of James Weakley Cunningham.
A graveside service will be held on Sunday, Dec. 20, at the Florence City Cemetery at 2:00 pm, with Rev. Sam Hardie officiating . Because of the Pandemic, there will be no visitation and family only will be present for the service. Services are entrusted to Elkins Funeral Home.
In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents Cordelia and John Will Johnson of Valley, AL and two brothers, John Will Johnson, Jr. and Evans Combs Johnson. She leaves to cherish her memory, her daughter, Dee Cunningham Patterson of Florence, three Grandchildren, Ben Patterson and wife Dawn of Montgomery, Donald Patterson and wife Mami of Murfreesboro, Tenn., and Elizabeth Patterson of Florence. She also has four grandchildren: Rutland Patterson of Birmingham, and Parker, Reese, and Benjamin Patterson of Montgomery.