Spotlight on Women Filmmakers

With the start of Women’s History Month, Film at Lincoln Center is excited to continue our ongoing efforts to showcase underrepresented stories, perspectives, and filmmakers in continuation of our wider Amplified Voices initiative. All through March, we’ll spotlight woman-identifying filmmakers through our programming, never-before-seen archival Q&As, community initiatives, essential articles, and more.

March Social Links

Throughout the month, follow along as we highlight vital films and filmmakers who have made an impact in cinema. The lists below will continue to be updated so we encourage you to bookmark this page on your browser. For direct access, join us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook or subscribe to FLC’s weekly newsletter.

• “Filmmaker Spotlight” will shine a light on exemplary filmmakers from well-known icons to emerging voices.

• “From the Archives” will  feature critical conversation starters from previous FLC filmmaker Q&As
  • •  Claire Denis and the cast of White Material from the 47th New York Film Festival in 2009.
    •  Lucrecia Martel on The Headless Woman from the 46th New York Film Festival in 2008.
    • Mira Nair on Salaam Bombay! from the 44th New York Film Festival in 2006.
    • Taraji P. Henson on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button from the 46th New York Film Festival in 2008:

• “Film in Focus” will present notable works featured in past iterations of the New York Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, and more.

• Our “Community Corner” questions will offer a space for online dialogues with the FLC community. Tune in every Friday to offer your cinema-related thoughts!

March Programming

Kinuyo Tanaka Retrospective (March 18-27)

As an actress in over 250 films, Kinuyo Tanaka (1909-1977) was one of the most celebrated and wildly popular artists of her time. Between 1953 and 1962, Tanaka directed half a dozen films with a determined sense of freedom and touches of provocation, placing women at the forefront of her movies as mistresses, prostitutes, poets, heroines, and victims of social injustice. Film at Lincoln Center is honored to pay tribute to Tanaka’s monumental place in film history with a retrospective including these six rare films, newly restored by the studios with which she worked: Nikkatsu, Toho, Shochiku, and Kadokawa. Learn more and get tickets here.

Conversations with Woman-Identifying Filmmakers

Explore our archive of interviews and Q&As with filmmakers including Chloé Zhao, Claire Denis, Garrett Bradley, Mati Diop, Kelly Reichardt, Dee Rees, Agnès Varda, Jessie Maple, and more as they share their storytelling tips and distinct approaches to filmmaking in discussions with our programmers and special guests.

Check out the playlist below, along with highlights, or on YouTube.

Film Comment Articles

Explore the Film Comment archives for additional reading and film criticism:

• We Can Be Heroes: Agnès Varda
• Interview: Julie Dash
• Feeling Seen: Song of the Exile
• Phantom Light: First Cow and Beyond
• Interview: Garrett Bradley
• Interview: Claire Mathon
• Reaching Out: Eliza Hittman, Filmmaker
• Interview: Mati Diop
• Interview: Juliet Taylor
• Beautiful Work: The Female Gaze in Beau Travail, La France, and The Romance of Astrea and Celadon
• This is Us: Dee Ree’s Mudbound