47 WOMEN PROFILED OVER 9 NIGHTS ALL MONTH THIS OCTOBER

Thursday, October 1Women Film Pioneers

Alice Guy Blache Shorts: La Fée aux Choux The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ (1906) Falling Leaves (1912) Canned Harmony (1912) A House Divided (1913) The Ocean Waif (1916) The Blot (1921) (Lois Weber) The Love Light (1921) (Frances Marion) Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Early Women of Hollywood (2000) The Red Kimona (1925) (Dorothy Davenport Reid) The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1927) (Lotte Reniger)

Tuesday, October 6 Studio Directors from the Dawn of Sound into the 1970s

Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) (Dorothy Arzner) Outrage (1950) (Ida Lupino) The Heartbreak Kid (1972) (Elaine May) First Love (1977) (Joan Darling) Sparrows Can’t Sing (1963) (Joan Littlewood)

Thursday, October 8Independent Classics

Wanda (1970) (Barbara Loden) Girlfriends (1978) (Claudia Weill) Valley Girl (1983) (Martha Coolidge) True Love (1989) (Nancy Savoca) Border Radio (1987) (Allison Anders)

Tuesday, October 13The 1980s: A Step Forward

Crossing Delancy (1988) (Joan Miklin Silver) Look Who’s Talking (1989) (Amy Heckerling) A Dry White Season (1989) (Euzhan Palcy) Mrs. Soffel (1984) (Gillian Armstrong) Cookie (1989) (Susan Seidelman)

Thursday, October 15Essential Documentaries

Araya (1959) (Margot Benacerraf) Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976) (Barbara Kopple) The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980) (Connie Field) Portrait of Jason (1967) (Shirley Clarke) The Decline of Western Civilization (1981) (Penelope Spheeris)

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Tuesday, October 20The 1990s: Mainstream Hits

A League of Their Own (1992) (Penny Marshall) Sleepless in Seattle (1993) (Sony) (Nora Ephron) The Prince of Tides (1991) (Barbra Streisand) Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993) (Randa Haines) Home for the Holidays (1995) (Jodie Foster)

Thursday, October 22African-American Independents

Losing Ground (1982) (Kathleen Collins) Daughters of the Dust (1991) (Julie Dash) Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (1992) (Leslie Harris) Middle of Nowhere (2012) (Ava DuVernay) Best Men (1997) (Tamra Davis) Little Dorrit – Part One (1987) (Christine Edzard)

Tuesday, October 27International Breakthroughs

Gigi (1948) (Jacqueline Audry) Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) (Anges Varda) Salaam Bombay (1988) (Mira Nair) Love and Anarchy (1973) (Lina Wertmuller) Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) (Chantal Akerman) An Angel at My Table (1990) (Jane Campion)

Thursday, October 29A New Generation

Away from Her (2006) (Sarah Polley) Walking and Talking (1996) (Nicole Holofcener) The Hurt Locker (2008) (Kahtryn Bigelow) The Virgin Suicides (1999) (Sophia Coppola) Frida (2002) (Julie Taymor) I Am Sam (2001) (Jessie Nelson)

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