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Aug 15, 2010 | No Comments | ByEmily Seed
From Fri 13 August on digital re-release
Five Easy Pieces
Jack Nicholson plays Robert Dupea, once a promising concert pianist, now a drifter between oil rig jobs, late night bars and motels. When he hears that his father is ill, he takes his first trip in three years to his family home, where revelations, bitter hurts and some kind of healing awaits him. Swerving in and out of love with his waitress girlfriend Rayette (Karen Black) but mostly in a state of anger towards the world, Bobby is one of ’70s Hollywood best-crafted characters. Screenwriter Carole Eastman was one of the only women to pen such a leading ’70s film as this, and was Oscar-nominated for this work, which remains the peak of her career. Iconic for its penetration of young Americans’ Vietnam era disillusionment and re-evaluation, and for the scene in which Dupea plays a beat-up piano in the back of the truck in which he’s hitching a ride.
US 1970 Dir. Bob Rafelson, Scr. Carole Eastman 98min
Jul 12, 2010 | No Comments | ByLouise Forbes
This year has been a fantastic year for women directors, but just when you think the recognition is rising, Screen International lets the side down.
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Jul 7, 2010 | No Comments | ByAmy Mole
During our 2010 festival, Birds Eye View launched the latest in our series of training labs for women filmmakers. This time, our focus was animation. Through our 2010 programming research we discovered that although the first ever feature animation, The Adventures of Prince Achmed was made by a women, Lottie Reineger…very few women followed in her footsteps. In fact only a handful of feature animations have been made by women since this form came into play. And so, we decided to tackle this head on. Read the full story
Jun 7, 2010 | No Comments | ByLaura Lacey-Freeman
Following a successful screening at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, in partnership with Birds Eye View, Women Without Men is being released into cinemas on Friday. Birds Eye View’s Clare Callan caught up with the director, Shirin Neshat, for an in depth discussion. Read the full story
Jun 2, 2010 | No Comments | ByEmily Seed
EIFF 2010 16th-27th June
The Edinburgh International Film Festival programme was announced yesterday, and under the directorship of Hannah McGill and her team of programmers, it’s a magnificent year for women filmmakers! Where Cannes tripped up in its relatively weak showcase of work by women, almost half of Edinburgh’s Documentary section and a third of its Rosebud strand of first and second films are by women directors from around the world, which brings a huge amount of optimism for the future of cinema. Read the full story
May 26, 2010 | No Comments | ByClare Callan
Greta Garbo who stars in The Temptress
This week we present a selection of three of our very best live music to silent film commissions ever in: Sound & Silents, BEV’s mini-season of live music to silent film. The events including The Temptress with music from Natalie Clein in which Greta Garbo stars as a melancholy vamp in an emotional rollercoaster with live musical accompaniment from the Classical Brit Award Winning cellist, My Best Girl accompanied by The Elysian Quartet; A delightful romantic comedy starring Mary Pickford with music from the only British string quartet of its generation dedicated exclusively to contemporary and experimental music and I Don’t Want to be a Man! accompanied by Zoe Rahman + The Danger Girl accompanied by Juice; A fantastic double bill of silent comedy featuring Ossi Oswalda and Gloria Swanson with music from the acclaimed jazz pianist and experimental vocal trio. Although we have been blogging like mad about the musicians we have not said much about these iconic films. Screened originally as part of our festival seasons Screen Seductresses: Vamps, Vixens & Femmes Fatales and Clowning Glories: Women in Film Comedy Before 1930 here’s a bit about each upcoming film, the musians compositions and some fascinating articles about femme fatales and funny women. Read the full story
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