Kathryn Bigelow
In this week’s Video Dispatches, we cover the new releases of Hedwig & The Angry Inch (2001), The Loveless (1981) and a collection of Charley Bowers films.
We look back at the wonder women of 2017, the women directors and writers who pushed through barriers in the industry, advancing gender equality and making history.
Detroit to be an eye-opening, courageous piece of film whose subject manner is a timely reminder of our lack of societal change.
Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal found success before with Zero Dark Thirty, and given the timely history lesson they’re presenting, Detroit will likely garner even more praise for the team.
Whilst most filmmakers tend to lean on retelling Bram Stoker’s story of Dracula, this is a selection of creative and interesting takes on the popular vampire genre.
One of the most overlooked elements of the action genre is sound – more specifically, its use of sound cues to tell a story. However, this mode of storytelling is not only powerful by itself, but is especially suited to the needs of modern action films. Recent advances in sound technology now make it possible for action directors to put sound cues to their full use.
If people know one thing about Kathryn Bigelow, hopefully it is the fact that she became the first woman to win an Academy Award for directing The Hurt Locker. But the reality may be people know her because she directed Point Break or was married to director James Cameron. Most of her career, she has been pegged as a female action director, a label which diminished her influence and films.