Course Description

Instructor: Robin Bernat

In this seven-week session, we will watch and discuss films from the avant-garde to Hollywood productions directed primarily by women about women. Films include biographical films, comedies, films adapted from literature, and dramas celebrating and championing women's experiences. Women on Top:

1. Vilgot Sjoman: I Am Curious Yellow (1967) Pascale Ferran: Lady Chatterly (2006) Hoopla

2. Howard Hawkes: Bringing Up Baby (1938) Peter Bogdanovich: What’s Up Doc (1972)

3. Ingmar Bergman: Scenes from a Marriage (1974) Mia Hansen-Love: Things to Come (2016)

4. Marlene Gorris: Antonia’s Line (1996) Pernille Fischer Christensen: Becoming Astrid (2018)

5. Sally Potter: Orlando (1992) Wash Westmoreland: Colette (2018)

6. Kelly Reichardt: Certain Women (2016) Mike Mills: Twentieth Century Women (2017)

7. Jane Campion: Bright Star (2009) Autumn de Wilde: Emma (2020). Video rental is required.