New LJ community
16 Mar 2009 05:24 pmThis will be easy for me because I watch so many Japanese, Chinese, and Hong Kong movies already.
Comparisons are not the point, but the OH and I were talking about this community and he pointed out it would be (more of) a challenge for us to watch 12 films written and/or directed by women. Then we thought about watching 12 films that pass the Bechdel Rule.*
The Bechdel Rule states that a movie
1. It has to have at least two women in it,
2. Who talk to each other,
3. About something other than a man.
Here is the Dykes to Watch Out For strip in which it appeared.
no subject
Date: 17 Mar 2009 12:41 am (UTC)Catherine Breillat (I find her work hard to watch)
Agnes Varda
Mary Herron
Patricia Rozema
Miranda July ***
Kathryn Bigelow
Jane Campion
Sofia Coppola
Joan Chen
Barbra Streisand
Leni Riefenstahl
Salma Hayek
Just to pick a round dozen. No Bechdel rule passing implied.
*** So good!