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Bondo

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Re: What are your favorite films directed by women?
« Reply #10 on: March 31, 2017, 07:33:49 AM »
Films in the Bondo Collection:

Innocence
Fish Tank
The Woodsman
Bend It Like Beckham
Obvious Child
XXY
Water Lilies
Skallamann
North Country
Anatomy of Hell
Belle
Father of My Children
Where Are My Children?
Caramel
Open Hearts
Red Road
Hypocrites
Bride and Prejudice
The Night Porter
Pariah
Speak
The Arbor
Tiny Furniture
Winter's Bone
The Selfish Giant
Love Like Poison
Waste Land
We Live In Public
The Business of Being Born
Prodigal Sons
2 Days in Paris
No Bikini
Away From Her
Me and You and Everyone We Know
The Hamburg Cell
Iron Jawed Angels
Wasp
Sex Is Comedy
Whale Rider
Fat Girl
Me Without You
The Gleaners & I
Boys Don't Cry
But I'm A Cheerleader
Can't Hardly Wait
Earth/Fire/Water
The Lost Garden
Real Genius
A Time For Burning
The Passionate Stranger
The Truth About Women
To Dorothy A Son
The Magician's Alms
17 Girls
The Ballad of Little Jo
Rattle of a Simple Man
Suspense
The Results of Feminism
As If I Am Not There
Mustang
Audrie & Daisy

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Re: What are your favorite films directed by women?
« Reply #11 on: March 31, 2017, 11:42:24 AM »
From my top 100

1. You've Got Mail (Nora Ephron)
2. Return to Me (Bonnie Hunt)
3. Yentl (Barbra Streisand)
4. Little Women (Gillian Armstrong)
5. The Piano (Jane Campion)
6.. Dear Frankie (Shona Auerbach)
7. Across the Universe (Julie Taymor)
8. The Secret Garden (Agnieszka Holland)
9. Bright Star (Jane Campion)


Just outside my top 100

An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion)
After the Wedding (Susanne Bier)
Water (Deepa Mehta)
Big (Penny Marshall)
My Brilliant Career (Gillian Armstrong)

Bondo

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Re: What are your favorite films directed by women?
« Reply #12 on: March 31, 2017, 12:12:06 PM »
I should put the disclaimer that the "Bondo Collection" is constructed to leave out well established films, thus does not include the likes of The Matrix or The Hurt Locker. Actually, that's about the only two I can think of that got left out as a result of that limitation. Not enough films directed by women get to that level of establishment in the canon.

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Re: What are your favorite films directed by women?
« Reply #13 on: March 31, 2017, 12:46:48 PM »
The fact Lost in Translation hasn't been mentioned yet is kinda ridiculous.

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Re: What are your favorite films directed by women?
« Reply #14 on: March 31, 2017, 01:03:57 PM »
I like it but I don't love it.
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Re: What are your favorite films directed by women?
« Reply #15 on: March 31, 2017, 01:13:19 PM »
The fact Lost in Translation hasn't been mentioned yet is kinda ridiculous.
It's in my list.

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Re: What are your favorite films directed by women?
« Reply #16 on: March 31, 2017, 07:06:17 PM »
The Selfish Giant
Wendy and Lucy
The House is Black
Zero Dark Thirty
Bright Star
Vagabond
The Future
After the Wedding
The Gleaners and I
Salaam Bombay!
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Re: What are your favorite films directed by women?
« Reply #17 on: March 31, 2017, 10:15:28 PM »
The Matrix
Yentl
American Dream
Zero Dark Thirty
Blackfish
Harlan County USA
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Strange Days
We Need to Talk About Kevin
After the Wedding
Open Hearts
Near Dark
Wendy and Lucy
The Selfish Giant


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Re: What are your favorite films directed by women?
« Reply #18 on: April 01, 2017, 03:41:45 PM »
The fact Lost in Translation hasn't been mentioned yet is kinda ridiculous.
It's in my list.

It's at the top of my list.

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Re: What are your favorite films directed by women?
« Reply #19 on: April 01, 2017, 05:07:23 PM »
Bound/Cloud Atlas (Wachowskis)
Breathe (Mélanie Laurent)
Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
Wendy and Lucy/Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
The Hurt Locker/Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow)
Illusions (Julie Dash)
Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson)
Selma (Ava DuVernay)
Pariah (Dee Rees)
Obvious Child (Gillian Robespierre)
A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall)
The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko)
Top of the Lake (Jane Campion)