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In order to get myself in the habit of posting every day here, and in honor of Women’s Equality Day on August 26, I've decided to recommend one film per day this month from among the 350+ #DirectedByWomen #Movies that I have watched since 2015:
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A list of 366 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Obvious Child (2014), Jupiter Ascending (2015), Belle (2013), Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) and The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015). About this list: LIST IN PROGRESS: This is a list of all the feature films* directed by women that I have watched since 2..

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I'll be posting my August #DirectedByWomen recommendations as individual spouts with the hashtag #AugustEquality but I will also thread them here for ease of bookmarking. Day 1 is THE DRESSMAKER (2015) by Jocelyn Moorhouse:
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Day 1: THE DRESSMAKER (2015) by Jocelyn Moorhouse. A comic western revenge tale with very pretty dresses, starring Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth, Hugo Weaving, and a pre

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Day 2 is MAGGIE'S PLAN (2015) by Rebecca Miller. Available for rent on Amazon, Apple TV, and other streaming platforms. Worth the price!
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Day 2: MAGGIE’S PLAN (2015) by Rebecca Miller. A screwball comedy for our own time, starring Greta Gerwig (Go Barbie!), Ethan Hawke, and Julianne Moore. Would make a good double fe

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Day 3 is MIKEY AND NICKY (1976) by Elaine May. Currently streaming on Criterion, Kanopy, and HBO (which some people, not me, call Max).
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Day 3: MIKEY AND NICKY (1976) by Elaine May. For the first #ThrowbackThursday of the month, a classic from the 1970s. One desperate night in the life of childhood friends who also happen to

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Day 4 is WADJDA (2012) by Haifaa al-Mansour. Available for rent on Amazon, Apple TV, and other streaming platforms. #AugustEquality #DirectedByWomen #Movies #FemaleFilmmakerFriday
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Day 4: WADJDA (2012) by Haifaa al-Mansour. Just a girl and her dream of owning a shiny green bicycle. Easier said than done in a country where women still can’t compete freely in s

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Day 5 is McFARLAND, USA (2015) by Niki Caro. Currently streaming on Disney+. #AugustEquality #DirectedByWomen #Movies
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Day 5: McFARLAND, USA (2015) by Niki Caro. A feel-good sports movie that somehow doesn’t involve baseball, boxing, or football. However, it does involve Kevin Costner, so no harm n

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Day 6 is THEIR FINEST (2017) by Lone Scherfig. Available for rent on Amazon, Apple TV, and other streaming platforms. #AugustEquality #DirectedByWomen #Movies
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Day 6: THEIR FINEST (2017) by Lone Scherfig. The best movie about Dunkirk to come out in 2017. That’s right, I said it. A film about women in the workforce and finding one’s voice,

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Day 7 is IN A WORLD… (2013) by Lake Bell. Currently streaming on Freevee, Plex, and Redbox. #AugustEquality #DirectedByWomen #Movies
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Day 7: IN A WORLD… (2013) by Lake Bell. Another look at women trying to create a place for themselves in a film-related field dominated by men and their fragile egos. A fantastic e

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Day 8 is BLOW THE MAN DOWN (2020) by Bridget Savage Cole & Danielle Krudy. It's available streaming on Amazon Prime and Freevee. #AugustEquality #DirectedByWomen #Movies
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Day 8: BLOW THE MAN DOWN (2020) by Bridget Savage Cole & Danielle Krudy. Trust me when I say that this is the black comedy-mystery-thriller you didn't know you needed

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Day 9 is OBVIOUS CHILD (2014) by Gillian Robespierre. The movie that started it all. Currently streaming on Kanopy and available for rent elsewhere.
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Day 9: OBVIOUS CHILD (2014) by Gillian Robespierre. A rom-com about abortion and source of one of my most used GIFs. No, really. Or, rather, obviously. #AugustEquality #DirectedByWomen {

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Day 10 is OSTATNI ETAP (THE LAST STAGE) (1948) by Wanda Jakubowska, the first female director nominated for an Oscar (for her short film THE SEA in 1933). There are horrible overdubbed versions out there but you can find an excellent transfer with English subtitles on YouTube.
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Day 10: THE LAST STAGE (1948) by Wanda Jakubowska. Today's #AugustEquality #ThrowbackThursday selection is the groundbreaking OSTATNI ETAP, one of the first cinematic depictions of the H

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Day 11 is THE LOVE WITCH (2016) by Anna Biller. Currently streaming on multiple services including Kanopy, Mubi, Peacock, Shudder, and Tubi.
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Day 11: THE LOVE WITCH (2016) by Anna Biller. A highly stylized take on looking for love in all the wrong places. Jacques Demy meets PRACTICAL MAGIC. #AugustEquality #DirectedByWomen {#i

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Day 12 is AUSTENLAND (2013) by Jerusha Hess. Currently streaming on DirecTV and STARZ.
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Day 12: AUSTENLAND (2013) by Jerusha Hess. Keri Russell goes to a sort of Fantasy Island for Jane Austen fans. Criminally underrated on RT. Did men miss most of the Austen referenc

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Day 13 is MARLINA THE MURDERER IN FOUR ACTS (2017) by Mouly Surya. Currently streaming on Kanopy and Fandor.
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Day 13: MARLINA THE MURDERER IN FOUR ACTS (2017) by Mouly Surya. East meets West in this feminist revenge thriller set in rural Indonesia but with a distinctly western twang. {#id:

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Day 14 is POLITE SOCIETY (2023) by Nida Manzoor. Currently streaming on Peacock Premium and available for rent elsewhere. #AugustEquality #DirectedByWomen #Movies
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Day 14: POLITE SOCIETY (2023) by Nida Manzoor. Just your average British-Pakistani coming of age family drama martial arts heist comedy thriller. #AugustEquality #DirectedByWomen {#id:32

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Day 15 is WATCHER (2022) by Chloe Okuno. Currently streaming on AMC+, Hulu, and Shudder. #AugustEquality #DirectedByWomen #Movies
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Day 15: WATCHER (2022) by Chloe Okuno. I caught this on a coast-to-coast flight last fall and liked it so much I rewatched it on the return. One of my favorite endings in recent me

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Day 16 is STORIES WE TELL (2012) by Sarah Polley. Currently streaming on Kanopy and Freevee.
#AugustEquality #DirectedByWomen #Movies
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Day 16: STORIES WE TELL (2012) by Sarah Polley. I’m not a big fan of documentaries, but this one—a meditation on family, memory, truth, love, and loss—is pure poetry. A personal my

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Day 17 is DEAR FRANKIE (2004) by Shona Auerbach. Currently streaming on CBS and available on Hoopla.
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Day 17: Today's #AugustEquality #ThrowbackThursday selection is DEAR FRANKIE (2004) by Shona Auerbach. This heartwarming Scottish family film follows a rather clichéd rom-com type of plo

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Day 18 is BEYOND THE LIGHTS (2014) by Gina Prince-Bythewood. Currently streaming on Kanopy and Netflix and available on Hoopla. #AugustEquality #DirectedByWomen #FemaleFilmmakerFriday #Movies
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Day 18: BEYOND THE LIGHTS (2014) by Gina Prince-Bythewood. This movie is part NOTTING HILL, part Nina Simone biopic, with a bit of a sports movie thrown in for good measure. Minnie

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Day 19 is BEFORE I FALL (2017) by Ry Russo-Young. Available for rent on Amazon, Apple TV, and other streaming platforms. #AugustEquality #DirectedByWomen #Movies
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Day 19: BEFORE I FALL (2017) by Ry Russo-Young. On the surface this may seem to be just another teen movie, but in fact it is HEATHERS, wrapped in GROUNDHOG DAY, inside of LOOPER.

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Day 20 is FIRST COW (2020) by Kelly Reichardt. Currently streaming on Peacock Premium and available for rent on Amazon, Apple TV, and other platforms. #AugustEquality #DirectedByWomen #Movies
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Day 20: FIRST COW (2020) by Kelly Reichardt. This western was the last movie I saw in a theater before the shelter-in-place went into effect. At the time, I had no idea it would be

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Day 21 is RESPIRE (BREATHE) (2015) by Mélanie Laurent. Currently available on Hoopla, Kanopy, Freevee, and Tubi, among others. #AugustEquality #DirectedByWomen #Movies
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Day 21: RESPIRE (BREATHE) (2015) by Mélanie Laurent. A dark coming-of-age story about a new friendship (obsession?) going horribly, horribly wrong. Lou de Laâge is mesmerizing in t

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Day 22 is LES INNOCENTES (THE INNOCENTS) (2016) by Anne Fontaine. Currently streaming on Amazon Prime, Kanopy, and Tubi, among others. #AugustEquality #DirectedByWomen #Movies
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Day 22: LES INNOCENTES (THE INNOCENTS) (2016) by Anne Fontaine. A French doctor (Lou de Laâge, again!) working in Poland just after WWII. The cast is superb, the cinematography stu

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Day 23 is QUEEN OF KATWE (2016) by Mira Nair. Currently streaming on Disney+ and available for rent on Amazon, Apple TV, and other platforms. #AugustEquality #DirectedByWomen #Movies
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Day 23: QUEEN OF KATWE (2016) by Mira Nair. This film is everything you’d think a Disney sports movie directed by Mira Nair would be. Delightful. Heartwarming. Colorful. Lupita Nyo

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Day 24 is THE HITCH-HIKER (1953) by Ida Lupino. Currently streaming on Amazon Prime, Kanopy, and Tubi, among others. #AugustEquality #ThrowbackThursday #DirectedByWomen #Movies
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Day 24: Today's #AugustEquality #ThrowbackThursday selection is THE HITCH-HIKER (1953) by Ida Lupino. One of my favorite noirs of all time and one of the best takes ever on the “masculin

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Day 25 is UNPREGNANT (2020) by Rachel Lee Goldenberg. Like Day 24, a road trip gone very wrong, but a much lighter take on the genre. Currently streaming on HBO, or, if you insist, Max. #AugustEquality #DirectedByWomen #Movies
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Day 25: UNPREGNANT (2020) by Rachel Lee Goldenberg. If you liked Haley Lu Richardson on THE WHITE LOTUS, check her out in this road trip buddy comedy about a Missouri teen needing

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Day 26 is GIRLFRIENDS (1978) by Claudia Weill (available for rent on Amazon, Apple TV, and other streaming platforms) and WALKING AND TALKING (1996) by Nicole Holofcener (available on Paramount+ and Hoopla).
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Day 26: Women’s Equality Day double feature: GIRLFRIENDS (1978) by Claudia Weill and WALKING AND TALKING (1996) by Nicole Holofcener. What better way to celebrate Women’s Equality

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Day 27 is A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT (2014) by Ana Lily Amirpour. Currently available on Hoopla and Kanopy.
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Day 27: A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT (2014) by Ana Lily Amirpour. If you’ve ever found yourself wishing the New Wave had done more vampire films, this may be the film for you.

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Day 28 is REVENGE (2018) by Coralie Fargeat. Currently streaming on AMC+ and Shudder. #AugustEquality #DirectedByWomen #Movies #horrormovies
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Day 28: REVENGE (2018) by Coralie Fargeat. If you know me at all, you know this French action-horror mash-up was bound to show up at some point. Not your typical rape-revenge thril

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Day 29 is MUSTANG (2016) by Deniz Gamze Ergüven. Currently streaming on Kanopy and Mubi. #AugustEquality #DirectedByWomen #Movies
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Day 29: MUSTANG (2016) by Deniz Gamze Ergüven. A deceptively breezy story of five sisters growing up in a remote Turkish village and how they navigate their limited options. Each s

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Day 30 is BANDE DE FILLES (GIRLHOOD) (2014) by Céline Sciamma. Currently streaming on Hoopla, Kanopy, and Showtime. You can’t go wrong with Céline Sciamma. See also: TOMBOY (2011), PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (2019), and PETITE MAMAN (2021). #AugustEquality #DirectedByWomen #Movies
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Day 30: BANDE DE FILLES (GIRLHOOD) (2014) by Céline Sciamma. Another coming-of-age tale, but this time on the wrong side of the Paris tracks. Compassionate, joyful, engaging, and “

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Day 31 is MORVERN CALLAR (2002) by Lynne Ramsay. Currently streaming on Freevee, Kanopy, and Roku. #AugustEquality #ThrowbackThursday #DirectedByWomen #Movies
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Day 31: For my final #AugustEquality #ThrowbackThursday selection, I present MORVERN CALLAR (2002) by Lynne Ramsay. More of a vibe than a plot, one of those meticulously crafted, dreamy films

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