Currently Browsing: Certain Women
Welcome to Women’s History Month 2025:
To celebrate, we are reposting tributes to some of the Swans who have made the greatest impact on our own lives. These are names & faces everyone should know!
One year ago, on this day, Showing Up made its USA debut at the New York Film Festival, marking filmmaker Kelly Reichardt’s fourth collaboration with actress Michelle Williams.… read more.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the 487 newest members asked to join their prestigious organization. Though an exciting topic for any film buff, why do we at FF2 care so much? Easy — because 44% of these new picks are women! Further, they are women whose careers we have already been following closely.… read more.
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending my fourth Athena Film Festival at Barnard College (my alma mater). Although I have now graduated, it’s always a joy to return to campus and see the next class of wonderful people donning Athena merch and scanning tickets at the door, greeting people and giving directions, and sitting down to enjoy what is hands-down Barnard’s best event of the year. … read more.
FF2 Intern Peier Tracy Shen asks you to consider these six films by women writers &/or directors (from the full list of films released in NYC theatres in 2016). Note that this list was created in November & will be updated after December 31, 2016.
My Favorite Feature Films of 2016 (2)
- American Honey (Director Andrea Arnold)
- Certain Women (Director Kelly Reichardt)
My Favorite Documentary Films of 2016 (2)
- Cameraperson (Director Kirsten Johnson)
- Olympic Pride, American Prejudice (Director Deborah Riley Draper)
My Favorite Foreign Language Films of 2016 (2)
- Chevalier (Athina Tsangari)
- The Innocents (Anne Fontaine)
Photo: “Krystal” (Riley Keough) and her recruits in American Honey. … read more.
The 54th Annual New York Film Festival (NYFF) of the Film Society of Lincoln Center (FSLC) opens September 30, with a new documentary 13th by Ava DuVernay, renowned for Selma. (2014). Running through October 16, the full slate includes, by my count of all the sections: 11 new feature-length films (fiction and documentary), plus one restored revival, as well as 18 short films directed by women. … read more.