The Criterion Channel’s December 2021 Lineup

Female Gaze: Women Directors + Women Cinematographers

This sprawling selection of films both directed and shot by women testifies to an extraordinary tradition of female collaboration behind the camera. Spanning the last half century of cinema and including work by trailblazing director-cinematographer duos such as Chantal Akerman and Babette Mangolte (Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles; News from Home), Claire Denis and Agnès Godard (Beau Travail, Let the Sunshine In), and Jane Campion and Sally Bongers (A Girl’s Own Story, Sweetie), as well as fruitful recent partnerships like Céline Sciamma and Crystel Fournier (Tomboy, Girlhood) and Josephine Decker and Ashley Connor (Butter on the Latch, Thou Wast Mild and Lovely), these extraordinary films reveal a vital legacy of visionary women seizing the tools of visual storytelling and opening up new possibilities for cinema.

FEATURES: Film About a Woman Who . . . (1974)**, Daguerréotypes (1975), Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), News from Home (1976), Mur Murs (1981), The Willmar 8 (1981)*, The Gold Diggers (1983), Jane B. par Agnès V. (1988), Sweetie (1989), Go Fish (1994), Angela (1995), The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995), Nénette and Boni (1996), High Art (1998)**, Beau travail (1999), Conversations with Intellectuals About Selena (1999), La captive (2000), Personal Velocity (2002), The Headless Woman (2008), Home (2008)**, Shooting Women (2008), The Milk of Sorrow (2009), The Oath (2010), Tomboy (2011), Sister (2012)**, Stories We Tell (2012)**, Butter on the Latch (2013), Karaoke Girl (2013), Citizenfour (2014), Girlhood (2014), Second Coming (2014), Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (2014), The Wonders (2014), The Second Mother (2015), The Innocents (2016), Let the Sunshine In (2017), A Family Submerged (2018), The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018), Ste. Anne (2021)

SHORTS: Joyce at 34 (1972), Girls at 12 (1975), Clorae and Albie (1976), A Girl’s Own Story (1984), Odds and Ends (1993), Swimmer (2012), Social Butterfly (2013), Roberta (2014), I Dream You Dream of Me (2018), Moving (2019)

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