Thoughts on lady directors?
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Loki — 4 months ago(November 27, 2025 10:49 AM)
Depends on your taste, but there's a bit of everything. A GREAT one is The Ascent (1977), for example. If you prefer horror, there's American Psycho, original Pet Semetary, Ravenous, Fresh, Raw, Revenge, The Substance, The Invitation (the good one), The Babadook, The Love Witch, Saint Maud, etc etc…. there's plenty.
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sheetsadam1 — 4 months ago(November 27, 2025 05:27 PM)
Great list. Also… Point Break, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Monster, Titane, Winter's Bone, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Bodies Bodies Bodies… And some of my favorite documentaries: Penelope Spheeris's The Decline of Western Civilization trilogy (she also directed Wayne's World) and Barbara Kopple's Harlan County USA. Also, Barbara Loden's Wanda is one of the greatest movies of all time.
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Paul P. Powell — 4 months ago(November 29, 2025 04:28 PM)
Can you take them seriously?
In a word, "no". I'd have to ponder hard to name any I've ever been impressed by.
Other than a few obvious pioneers like say,
Lina Wertmuller
or
Leni Riefenstahl
.
That's quite a different kettle of fish than the new parade of hyped-up names which we're subjected to, today.
The modern sham-scape, the modern fraud-scape, is all undermind by the prevalence of, '
virtue signaling'
.
Everyone trying to escape lawsuits, claiming they're female-friendly, +LGBQTPOC friendly, etcetera.
When the truth is, the old boy network doesn't give a fat frog's fanny.
Paul P. Powell, Pool Player
