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March 7, 2017 4:30 AM   Subscribe

 
Pretty cool on cursory inspection! Is this just getting started with the 30 or so cards per F segment after I pressed the [load more] button or was there a list list available that I missed?
posted by Nanukthedog at 5:46 AM on March 7, 2017


Not sure what you clicked on, but IMDb has tagged 21,800 films.
posted by effbot at 7:52 AM on March 7, 2017


I always kind of wished that iTunes had something similar to this, with tags for race, country of origin, etc, not just for political reasons, but for statistical ("I wonder how many Hungarian ska songs I have?") and playlist making as well.
posted by jonmc at 8:54 AM on March 7, 2017


Has anyone figured out how to determine what aspect of a movie qualified it for the list? I can't find anything on IMDB that elaborates at all. (I was looking for why A Serbian Film was on the first page of results. I have not seen it, but I thought it was written, directed, and starring primarily men, so it just surprised me.)

It's just that the qualifications are pretty vague, so it's hard to tell. "directed by women and/or written by women and/or have significant women on screen." So not Lawrence of Arabia, then?

I do really like the idea of letting people sort and find movies by women. I just wish there were a way to see what qualified these particular movies for inclusion.

One thing that always bugs me when people talk about the gender disparities in filmmaking is that the people talking about it often seem completely oblivious to how many women are already making movies. Women have been making films since narrative films existed. In fact, a woman probably made the very first narrative film ever. Hollywood definitely needs to up its game and start funding and hiring women for big projects, but often, the people who say they want better representation for women in film are ignoring those who've been there all along.

Its' a huge part of the problem that the generally accepted film canon is male dominated for no reason I can imagine except misogyny, so there are a whole bunch of people who know Godard who don't know Varda, Bunuel but not Deren, Tarkovsky but not Shepitko, Herzog but not von Trotta. (Also: Literally everyone I just named is white, and that's a problem too.)

I am 100% for highlighting women in film. I just don't entirely get the criteria for inclusion.
posted by ernielundquist at 9:33 AM on March 7, 2017


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