Cinema has long been shaped by the male gaze, a term popularised by Laura Mulvey in her seminal essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (1975), which dissected how classical Hollywood ...

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene ...

Cinema has long been shaped by the male gaze, a term popularised by Laura Mulvey in her seminal essay “Visual Pleasure and ...

Jane Campion displays her Oscar for Best Original Screenplay at the 66th Academy Awards, March 21, 1994, in Los Angeles. Frank Trapper/Corbis via Getty Images, FILE New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion ...

Read an excerpt from Marya E. Gates' forthcoming 'Cinema Her Way: Visionary Female Directors in Their Own Words,' a survey of women filmmakers.

Kidman has since worked with auteur after auteur. When certain directors call, she doesn’t even read the script before saying ...

For lovers of gripping mysteries anchored by a powerful leading performance, The Åre Murders is perfect for your next binge ...

I first became aware that women could direct films when I was eight years old and my mother took me to see Gillian Armstrong’s “Little Women.” That movie affected me deeply and has remained my ...

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