sumsofsteele

renaissance woman

[sumsofsteele]

Note to self...

“He’s a lover boy at play, he don’t play by rules”

[fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors]

There’s absolutely a disparity. That’s a statistical fact. Why that is, I don’t really know. I am excited, though, that there are so many wonderful women emerging now and directing.

Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman directed by women filmography

Developing dir. Marya Cohn - 1994 New York, I Love You dir. Mira Nair - 2008 Illusions & Mirrors dir. Shirin Neshat - 2013 A Tale of Love and Darkness dir.  Natalie Portman - 2015 Planetarium dir. Rebecca Zlotowski - 2016 On the Basis of Sex dir. Mimi Leder - 20?? Bronco Belle dir. Anna Rose Holmer - 20??

[fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors]

The Adventures of Prince Achmed dir. Lotte Reiniger (1926)

[sumsofsteele]

I love shadow puppet theater! Put it on film and somehow it is more beautiful.

[wordsunsaid-feelingsunexpressed]

All my life my parents Warned me about drugs And how addictive and dangerous They could be. Yet they never warned me about you. They never spoke about drugs With brown eyes, A crooked smile,  And a complicated heart.

My addiction (via wordsunsaid-feelingsunexpressed)

Oh I’m in deep and I want out, but there is a huge part of me that wants to continue this indulgence. It wasn’t supposed to be this way...

[fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors]

Google doodle of Canadian-American silent film actress, director, and producer Mary Pickford. Born April 8, 1892.

[sumsofsteele]

I loved this! Mary Pickford with her camera and her kitty <3

[y2kplaymate]

see you one day babygirl

[sumsofsteele]

So sad someone put out this beautiful star’s light. What a beautiful soul! 

[gabecebro]

Batgirl

[angelstills]

Brick Lane (2007)

[sumsofsteele]

Great movie! By a great Director, and a great teacher! :)

[tobydammit68]

[john-barrymore]

[80s90sthrowback]

A League of their Own (1992)

Dir: Penny Marshall

[sumsofsteele]

I love this movie!

[sumsofsteele]

I know I'm not the only one who gets like this

[fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors]

Toni Erdmann dir. Maren Ade (2016)

[sumsofsteele]

This film was just incredible! 

[lowreswunderbred]

That’s just cruel.

[sumsofsteele]

Lego Batman is in there! 

[fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors]

Beauty is very seductive for everybody. I want to create female fantasies and put them on screen to say that female beauty is not only a male fantasy, it’s a female fantasy as well. It’s little girls looking up to their pretty mummy, or pretty girls in magazines, and saying, ‘I want to look like that’. Women are the ones who look at fashion magazines, who consume images of beautiful women, much more than men do. I like cinema to be pleasurable and to create fantasy out of pain. The idea is that you’re creating or exposing a painful situation but doing it through beauty. In a way, it’s what Elaine is doing in the movie. She’s trying to seduce men in order to get them to understand her and love her. It’s the first step. Maybe that’s what I try to do with my films as well: seduce the audience.

Anna Biller on The Love Witch and how she crafts spellbinding female fantasies (via fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors)

[vintagewoc]

Tia Carrere in Wayne’s World (1992)

[sumsofsteele]

Singing “Ballroom Blitz”!

[canadaloveselena]