You know what we should all consciously do more often? Watch more films directed by women. I am making it a goal to watch the following films by the end of April 2020 (updated to end of 2021). Feel free to follow along on my journey of learning! (Note that this is a personal list of films I want to see. There are many other amazing films by women not included on this list. Also the numbers mean nothing, just the order I thought of them in.)
1) High Life (Claire Denis)
2) News from Home (Chantal Akerman)
3) The Beaches of Agnès (Agnès Varda)
4) The Piano (Jane Campion)
5) Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
6) Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
7) Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold)
8) Fruit of Paradise (Vera Chytilová)
Fruits of Paradise by Vera Chytilova
9) Ladybird (Greta Gerwig) *
10) The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko)
11) Shoes (Lois Weber)
12) Speedracer (the Wachowskis) *
13) Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair)
14) A New Leaf (Elaine May)
15) The House Is Black (Forough Farrokhzad)
16) Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik)
17) Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)
18) Forgetting Vietnam (Trinh T. Minh-ha)
Forgetting Vietnam by Trinh T. Minh-ha.
19) Pariah (Dee Rees)
20) The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
21) The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg)
22) The Farewell (Lulu Wang)
23) Water (Deepa Mehta)
24) Harlan County USA (Barbara Kopple)
25) Hurry Hurry (Marie Menken)
26) Frida (Julie Taymor)
27) A Fool and His Money (Alice Guy-Blaché)
28) The Future (Miranda July)
29) The Intern (Nancy Meyers)
30) The Wild Party (Dorothy Arzner)
31) Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash)
32) Clueless (Amy Heckerling)
Clueless by Amy Heckerling.
33) The Decline of Western Civilization II (Penelope Spheeris)
34) The Perfect Candidate (Haifaa al-Mansour)
35) Dyketactics (Barbara Hammer)
36) The Smiling Madame Beudet (Germaine Dulac)
37) Portrait of Jason (Shirley Clarke)
38) Soft Fiction (Chick Strand)
39) Spook Sport (Mary Ellen Bute)
40) The Fourth Watch (Janie Geiser)
41) Drexciya (Akosua Adoma Owusu)
42) Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (Alanis Obomsawin) *
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance by Alanis Obomasawin.