Pictured: Dorothy Arzner (left) directs the original It Girl, Clara Bow, in The Wild Party.Women haven’t always been welcome in the director’s chair, in Hollywood or elsewhere, and when they have directed films, sometimes their work has been overlooked or trivialized.
But a 14-part documentary and weekly film series, beginning tonight at 8 Eastern on Turner Classic Movies, aims to give women behind the camera their due.TCM is presenting the U.S.
premiere of Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema, a documentary highlighting the work of more than 180 directors from six continents over 13 decades.
It spans all genres, identities, and eras, going from silent-film pioneers Alice Guy-Blaché, Mabel Normand, and Lois Weber to early.