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First footage screening from ’Dominique’, ’My Divorce Comedy’ on November 1.

Film Mode Entertainment has announced at AFM a raft of deals on supernatural horror thriller The Devil Conspiracy, action thriller Dominique, and revenge thriller Outrage in a series of transactions concluded since Cannes.

Nathan Frankowski’s The Devil Conspiracy stars Alice Orr-Ewing, Joe Doyle, Peter Mensah, and Joe Anderson in the story of a Satanic cult which steals the Shroud of Turin.

Deals have closed in Middle East (Eagle Films Middle East), Australia/New Zealand (Eagle Entertainment), the UK (Amcomri Productions), Scandinavia (NonStop), South Korea (Lumix Media Contents Group), Germany...

Just when you thought the saga between Chris Rock, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith was over – and it should have ended with a literal mic drop during his Netflix special Selective Outrage – Jada is again stirring the pot, confessing that Chris Rock actually asked her out on a date sometime before the 94th Academy Awards.

But let’s give some quick context here. The issues between Chris Rock, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith go back years, with the most prominent stemming from Jada calling for multiple boycotts of the 88th Academy Awards: one over the #OscarsSoWhite controversy and another for Chris Rock to step down as host because Will Smith was “snubbed” for Concussion. Rock would go on to host because: a) Smith wasn’t even worthy of a nomination, and b) ain’t no Ozzfest second stager gonna tell him what to do.

As Jada Pinkett Smith told People,...

“As the climate crisis intensifies, so must our response. Join us in Outrage and Optimism as we try to make sense of the signals amidst the noise on all things climate this season. ” – Christiana Figueres, Co-host of Outrage + Optimism

Outrage + Optimism is a useful, weekly guide for anyone wanting to make sense of the complexity of the climate conversation.

Hosted by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac – who famously helped deliver the historic Paris Agreement on Climate Change in 2015 – as well as sustainable economy expert Paul Dickinson, the show is the leading, global, independent climate podcast.

Asking their audience to face the climate crisis head on, the trio share their expertise, insight and humor with the world’s climate thought-leaders in science, business, finance, politics and culture to help listeners understand that we have the power to solve this.

New and loyal listeners to Outrage + Optimism’s Season 8 can expect:

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If you’re a fan of Mel Gibson’s classic action flicks, be sure to stream them before they leave Max at the end of August.

All four “Lethal Weapon” movies and “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome,” starring the late, great Tina Turner, will be leaving the streaming service. Luckily, you’ll have all month to watch them.

Watching the new “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” animated movie in theaters? Max has several films featuring the radical reptilians: the live-action “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze” (1991)

and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III” (1993), as well as the animated “Tmnt” (2007).

Kaiju fans will want to check out “Godzilla” (2014), “Godzilla: King of the Monsters” (2019), “King Kong” (1933) and “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island” (2012).

Finally, if horror is your thing, six “Hellraiser” films and “The Ring Two” make great summer scares.

Here’s everything leaving Max in August 2023

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Jada Pinkett Smith is promising viewers haven’t seen the last of Red Table Talk, despite the shuttering of Facebook Watch earlier this year.

The actress, producer, mother and host revealed the news to People in a new interview about her anticipated memoir Worthy, out Oct. 17 with Dey Street Books, an imprint of the William MorrowGroup at HarperCollins Publishers. “It’s definitely coming back. We’ve had a couple platforms reach out to us. And we have some interesting avenues that we’re looking at now,” she said.

Published on Thursday, the conversation also saw Pinkett Smith address the public criticism she’s increasingly faced over the years for her — along with husband Will, and children Jaden and Willow — being so open about elements of her family’s life on the series and beyond.

“So many people feel because of my talk show Red Table Talk that they know my journey.

Kyoto, Japan’s Otoboke Beaver are a force of nature onstage — four larger-than-life hardcore punks, blazing through sets with idiosyncratic wrath and sarcasm. But when they pop in for a translator-guided Zoom interview, they’re resting at their apartments between dates on a Japanese tour. Accorinrin, the band’s howling frontwoman, reclines in a fluffy robe with a bunny tail. Hirochan, the bassist, keeps apologizing for her buff-colored cat sauntering across the screen. Yoyoyoshie — the band’s guitarist, who has gotten Otoboke Beaver inexplicably banned from Instagram three times for...

In the early ’90s, Japan’s Takeshi “Beat” Kitano was on a roll, with a superb string of nuanced crime movies that stood in stark contrast to the good-vs.-evil bullet operas that were coming out of Hong Kong at the time. Kitano’s darkly funny cynicism (who else could have made Violent Cop?) made him stand out by miles, but it soon became his weakness, as became evident in the lean period after the success of Zatoichi in 2013. The experimental, semi-autobiographical trilogy that followed — Takeshis’, Glory to the Filmmaker and Achilles and the Tortoise — seemed to offer little more than self-sabotage, the work of a frustrated artist trying to take a blowtorch to his populist image without much thought for the future.

The collateral damage was his international reputation, which took a hit to the extent that his next trilogy, the Outrage series, generally was received as the half-hearted work of a bored auteur.

Two Japanese films by internationally renowned auteurs — “Monster” by Koreeda Hirokazu and “Kubi” by Kitano Takeshi — are in the Cannes lineup this year, and both carry with them big box office expectations in Japan.

“Monster,” which is screening in competition, will be released on June 2 by Gaga and Toho, the latter Japan’s largest distributor and theater chain operator. Koreeda’s two previous films — “The Truth” (2019), shot in France, and “Broker” (2022), filmed South Korea — were both box office disappointments in his home market. “Monster,” however, promises a return to the earnings form of his 2018 Palme d’Or winner “Shoplifters,” whose $34 million cumulative total was the fourth-highest among Japanese releases that year.

One reason: The screenplay is by Sakamoto Yuji, a veteran writer of hit TV dramas and films, including the 2021 smash romantic drama “We Made a Beautiful Bouquet.” The story of “Monster,” about a quarrel between elementary school children...

The jokes will extend well past April 1st on HBO and HBO Max.

“Barry” returns for its fourth and final season. After the shocking Season 3 finale which saw Barry (Billy Hader) getting arrested and Cousineau (Henry Winkler) being hailed as a hero, there will be plenty of consequences for both. The dark comedy premieres on April 16 with two episodes.

“A Black Lady Sketch Show” will also bring plenty of laughs when it returns for its fourth season. The sketch comedy series premieres April 14.

On the drama side, the limited series “Love and Death” premieres on April 27. It’s based on the true story of Candy (Elizabeth Olsen) and Pat Montgomery (Patrick Fugit) and Betty (Lily Rabe) and Allan Gore (Jesse Plemons) – two churchgoing couples enjoying their small-town Texas life… until an extramarital affair leads somebody to pick up an axe.

For comic fans, the midseason premiere of the final season...

With its list of new releases for April 2023, HBO Max is premiering the final episodes of two major shows.

First up is the continuation of Titans season 4 on April 13. Returning after a four month hiatus, these next six episodes will be the last go around for HBO Max’s gritty live-action DC series. Arriving three days later on HBO proper is the fourth and final season of Barry. Bill Hader and the rest of the Barry team wrote themselves into a fascinating corner with the conclusion of season 3. And judging by the first teasers for season 4, this final batch of episodes will indeed catch up with our favorite actor/hitman in prison.

Other TV shows of note this month include the Pete Davidson-starring animated series Fired on Mars on April 20 (light ’em up) the the Elizabeth Olsen-starring true crime story Love & Death on April 27.

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Bill Hader stars in ‘Barry’ season 4 (Photograph by Merrick Morton/HBO)

Bill Hader returns for one final season of Barry and the popular sketch comedy A Black Lady Sketch Show kicks off its fourth season on HBO Max in April 2023. Additional highlights of the streaming service’s April lineup include the debut of Love & Death, a limited series starring Elizabeth Olsen and Patrick Fugit; season two of Somebody Somewhere with Bridget Everett; and the return of 100 Foot Wave for a second season.

In addition, the Titans mid-season premiere arrives on April 13. HBO Max offers this description of the fourth and final season’s remaining episodes: “The Titans – with the exception of Gar – are returned to the Temple of Trigon and rush to find Sebastian and Mother Mayhem before Sebastian summons Trigon. Along the way, they come across a prophecy that may require Kory to make a huge sacrifice to save the world.

In the final season of HBO Max’s “Barry,” premiering on April 16, Barry’s arrest for the murder of Cousineau’s girlfriend leads to a shocking conclusion. Barry (Bill Hader), a hitman who stumbles into acting, explores the dark, often comedic underbelly of both LA gangsters and Hollywood. Henry Winkler stars as Cousineau, Barry’s acting teacher and the man forced to confront the reality of his former student.

Watch the “Barry” season 4 trailer:

Another crime story will come to HBO Max in April, although this one is based on a true story. “Love & Death” revolves around the murder of Betty Gore (played by Lily Rabe) in a small Texas town in 1980. Her husband Alan (Jesse Plemons) has an affair with Candy (Elizabeth Olsen), who attends their church. Suddenly, the thrills turn deadly. Candy picks up an ax, whacks her rival over 40 times, and then claims self-defense. The new...

Love Is Blind season four, Murder Mystery 2, Rob Lowe starrer Unstable and docuseries Waco: American Apocalypse and Emergency: NYC are among the much-anticipated projects hitting Netflix this month.

Dating show Love Is Blind returns on March 24, featuring a new group of singles looking to make a connection based on something other than looks.

Later in the month, the streamer drops Rob and John Owen Lowe’s Unstable, a scripted comedy inspired by the playful dynamic between the real-life father and son. In the series, co-created by Santa Clarita Diet creator Victor Fresco, the elder Lowe plays successful biotech entrepreneur Ellis Dragon who is struggling after the death of his wife. John Owen Lowe plays his introverted son, Jackson, who seems to be the only one who can save his dad.

And Netflix closes out the month with Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler’s Murder Mystery 2. The sequel finds Aniston...

After three features which focused on Japanese media, society and the cult surrounding his own persona, director Takeshi Kitano decided to return to the yakuza-genre with “Outrage”, which was the start of a trilogy of movies about the inner turmoil of a criminal syndicate. Given the commercial failure of works such as “Takeshis’” and “Achilles and the Tortoise”, this decision was perhaps also fueled by the idea of winning back the kind of audience that got to know the filmmaker through “Sonatine”, “Brother” or “Hana-Bi”. While this premise does not actually sound like “Outrage” might be Kitano’s passion project, the movie itself, along with its successors, is easily one of the best works of the director and, at the very least, another look at the connections of organized crime and society.

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After a meeting at the headquarters of the Sanno-kai,...

Lesley Manville, Oscar and BAFTA nominee for “Phantom Thread,” leads the cast of “I Am Maria,” the next instalment of Dominic Savage’s “I Am” anthology series for U.K. broadcaster Channel 4.

Manville, who will take over from Helena Bonham-Carter in the role of Princess Margaret in the final seasons of Netflix series “The Crown,” was recently honored as a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (Cbe) for her services to drama and charity.

Production for “I Am Maria” commenced Tuesday in London and will explore issues of identity, doubt and the painful cracks that can slowly form in lifelong relationships. It was developed by the BAFTA-winning Savage in collaboration with Manville. Joining her in the cast are Michael Gould (“Darkest Hour”) and Gershwyn Eustache Jnr (“Small Axe”).

Manville said: “For me, collaboration is everything. To be able to combine different creative minds and produce...

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“Portrait Of An Emerging Artist As A Young Man”

By Raymond Benson

It is always fascinating to examine early works by a renowned filmmaker. Do we see stylistic and thematic elements that crop up more dynamically in the later, more well-known, popular pictures? Did the artist hit the ground running with a solid handle on the craft? How did the director evolve?

The Criterion Collection has released a compilation of five early shorts by Martin Scorsese that were made in the 1960s and 70s. All of them are 4K digital restorations with uncompressed monaural soundtracks, and they are a joy.

Two of them date from when Scorsese was at NYU film school. What’s a Nice Girl Doing in a Place Like This? was made in 1963. It’s not quite ten minutes long, is a comedy, and consists of a multimedia approach containing film,...

Director Lana Wilson had more access to pop sensation Taylor Swift than anyone has ever had, and Swifties can get a closer look at the star’s private life in the documentary “Miss Americana,” now streaming on Netflix.

“It felt like we had a lot of access — more than anyone’s ever had with her,” Wilson told TheWrap’s Beatrice Verhoeven at the Sundance Film Festival. “No one has ever filmed her in the studio before, and the interview I did with her at the beginning was the first interview she’d done in three years, so it felt very raw and fresh.”

In fact, Wilson explained, there wasn’t really anything that Swift considered off-limits. All Swift really wanted was to make an organic, genuine documentary, unlike the “conventional pop star documentary” we usually see.

Also Read: 'Miss Americana' Film Review: Taylor Swift Gets Intimate and Political...

A radiant documentary with the power to send Latinos into a frenzy of uplifting nostalgia, Argentine-American filmmaker Cristina Costantini and Kareem Tabsch’s “Mucho Mucho Amor” thoroughly and lovingly eulogizes revered Puerto Rican astrologer Walter Mercado, in a film that mixes celebrity cameos and heart-to-heart chats with the late icon himself.

One of the few true pan-Latino figures, ageless Mercado reached millions of households across the United States, as well as throughout Latin America (including Portuguese-speaking Brazil), and even Europe for decades on TV, radio, and print media.

Entire families hung on his every word and shushed one another to hear what he had to say about their respective futures. For those of us who interacted with his image every day, during his long stint on Univision’s “Primer Impacto” or his solo show, that’s a shared memory that evokes the comfort of familiarity. If Walter Mercado was on,...

A day before the Sundance Film Festival begins, Netflix acquired the global rights to the Midnight thriller “His House,” an individual with knowledge of the deal told TheWrap.

Remi Weekes wrote and directed the film that is set to premiere on Monday in the Midnight section. Weekes wrote the script with Felicity Evans and Toby Venables.

The film stars Wunmi Mosaku (“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”) and Sope Dirisu (“The Huntsman: Winter’s War”). It follows a young refugee couple that escapes Sudan and tries to adjust to their new life in a small English town. Soon, however, an evil force starts to surface.

Also Read: Netflix Acquires Documentary 'Mucho Mucho Amor' Ahead of Sundance

Producers are New Regency’s Arnon Milchan, Vertigo Entertainment’s Roy Lee, Martin Gentles and Edward King of Starchild Pictures and Aidan Elliott, in association with BBC. New Regency’s Yariv Milchan,...

Netflix is out with its list of every new movie and TV show being added to the streaming service, and everything we have to say goodbye to in February.

Highlights include “To All The Boys: P.S. I Still Love You,” the sequel to last year’s smash-hit, “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” starring Noah Centineo and Lana Condor. That’s out Feb. 12.

“Horse Girl,” starring Alison Brie as the titular socially-awkward equine enthusiast, is out Feb. 7. That same day, “Locke & Key” makes its series debut, following three siblings and their mother who return to their ancestral home after their father is murdered under mysterious circumstances.

Also Read: Taylor Swift's 'Miss Americana' Trailer Shows How Broke From 'Nice Girl' Persona (Video)

“Gentefied” from America Ferrera and Wilmer Valderrama arrives Feb. 21, and follows a Boyle Heights family trying to save their father’s taco shop.

Hey, old-school Eddie Murphy fans: A-member his early-’80s comedy albums? They featured, oh, one or two rather blue moments, famously drawing the ire of then-America’s Dad Bill Cosby. Well, fast-forward nearly four decades, add Twitter Outrage, and you just knew that NBC’s Saturday Night Live censor-minders had their thumbs hovering over the mute button like James Holzhauer’s on the Jeopardy! buzzer.

During a sketch that spoofed Food Network’s Holiday Baking Championship on SNL Saturday, Murphy let slip a rather minor expletive that was bleeped out for some but wasn’t for others. But in a borderline-cute case of modern political correctness, the comic realized the gaffe and put his hand over his mouth. Watch the clip above.

In the sketch, the contestants were tasked with creating a confection based on their favorite holiday memory. Murphy played Mitch, who fondly remembers playing video games with his...

At the moment, the Yakuza film does not hold the place it used to in the Japanese cinema industry. However, occasionally some films in the genre do appear, with Kitano’s “Outrage” trilogy and Shiraishi’s “Blood of Wolves” being the most renowned of the latest years. It was a surprise to me though, to discover that an almost unknown 2016 film by Kenichi Fujiwara, was the best Yakuza film I have seen in years, to the point that I got really frustrated I had not heard anything about it before. It is also worth mentioning that the 163-minute film was produced to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the direct-to-video production company All In Entertainment.

Conflict is screening at Japan Film Fest Hamburg

Due to the anti-Yakuza Laws, the traditional organized crime is experiencing bad times, and the Tendo clan seems to be in a lot of trouble. One of the central members,...

Ida Lupino (c. 1952). Courtesy Film Forum via Photofest.Much has been written about Ida Lupino’s centenary this year, and the renewed critical attention is a cause for celebration. The veteran screen actor and director of Golden Age Hollywood has too often been a name casually trotted out in lip service to women’s historical impact in the film industry. She most certainly did have that impact, but her films have proven difficult to see and completism with her work has been equally challenging. This began to shift after Martin Scorsese wrote an affectionate obituary of Lupino in a 1995 issue of The New York Times. Not long after, restorations and DVD releases would follow—some by Scorsese’s Film Foundation itself. Now, in her centenary year, both the British Film Institute and New York’s Film Forum are holding retrospectives to celebrate her, including works like her mother-daughter sports saga Hard,...

Share Her Journey campaign targets C$3m within five years.

The Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) hierarchy announced on Monday a five-year mandate to expand its talent development programmes to champion and empower women.

The initiative aims to raise C$3m (Usd $2.3m) in five years – C$500,000 (Usd $388,200) in the remainder of 2017 – and kicks off on July 10 with a donors’ event to mark the launch of the Share Her Journey campaign.

The campaign will run from July 10 through the end of the 2017 festival on September 17 and is designed to celebrate successful and inspirational women behind and in front of the camera whom Tiff has championed and supported over the years.

Former PotashCorp vice-president Betty-Ann Heggie (pictured below), founder of the Womentorship programme at the University Of Saskatchewan, and philanthropist and longtime Tiff donor Anne-Marie Canning, will match the first C$80,000 (Usd $62,100) donated to the campaign in 2017.

Tiff has appointed ‘ambassadors’ to relay the campaign’s message. They include:...

Share Her Journey campaign targets C$3m within five years.

The Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) hierarchy announced on Monday a five-year mandate to expand its talent development programmes to champion and empower women.

The initiative aims to raise C$3m (Usd $2.3m) in five years – C$500,000 (Usd $388,200) in the remainder of 2017 – and kicks off on July 10 with a donors’ event to mark the launch of the Share Her Journey campaign.

The campaign will run from July 10 through the end of the 2017 festival on September 17 and is designed to celebrate successful and inspirational women behind and in front of the camera whom Tiff has championed and supported over the years.

Former PotashCorp vice-president Betty-Ann Heggie (pictured), founder of the Womentorship programme at the University Of Saskatchewan, and philanthropist and longtime Tiff donor Anne-Marie Canning, will match the first C$80,000 (Usd $62,100) donated to the campaign in 2017.

Tiff has appointed ‘ambassadors’ to relay the campaign’s message. They include:...

Share Her Journey campaign targets C$3m within five years.

The Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) hierarchy announced on Monday a five-year mandate to expand its talent development programmes to champion and empower women.

The initiative aims to raise C$3m (Usd $2.3m) in five years – C$500,000 (Usd $388,200) in the remainder of 2017 – and kicks off on July 10 with a donors’ event to mark the launch of the Share Her Journey campaign.

The campaign will run from July 10 through the end of the 2017 festival on September 17 and is designed to celebrate successful and inspirational women behind and in front of the camera whom Tiff has championed and supported over the years.

Former PotashCorp vice-president Betty-Ann Heggie (pictured), founder of the Womentorship programme at the University Of Saskatchewan, and philanthropist and longtime Tiff donor Anne-Marie Canning, will match the first C$80,000 (Usd $62,100) donated to the campaign in 2017.

Tiff has appointed ‘ambassadors’ to relay the campaign’s message. They include:...

Chis Marker's Chat écoutant la musiqueThere are dog people and there are cat people, this we know, and there are even people who claim to be of both—though latent sympathies remain unspoken, like with a parent and which child is their favorite. With the Vienna Film Festival welcoming me with a tumbling collection of dog and cat short films spanning cinema's history—the Austrian Film Museum, an essential destination each year collaborating with the Viennale, is hosting a “a brief zoology of cinema” throughout the festivities—it is clear that filmmakers, too, have their preference. Silent cinema decidedly prefers the more easily trained and exhibited canine, with 1907’s surreal favorite Les chiens savants as a certain kind of cruel pinnacle. For the cats, Chris Marker, already the presiding figure over so much in 20th century art, I think we can easily claim is the cine-laureate. One need not know...

Few comics sit at the intersection of “fan beloved,” “industry defining,” and “absolutely impossible to acquire” the way the EC Comics library does. For a while they almost felt like Comics’ very own Holy Grail. On one hand, you’ve got the Tales From The Crypt brand itself, which has left an indelible mark on pop culture with films, cable TV series, Saturday morning cartoons, and a line of revival graphic novels from Papercutz — a proud legacy, to be sure. But on the other hand, you enter into the more nebulous region of pop cultural osmosis, and it’s there that the legend of Bill Gaines’ little comic line that could grows to gargantuan levels. The baby boomers that ate his ghoulish “mags” up in the early ‘50s eventually grew into the genre fiction movers and shakers of the ‘70s and ‘80s — from cult directors like George Romero and Joe Dante,...

João Bénard da Costa's essay on Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar (1954) is now available in nine languages. Do we fully appreciate the impact of Cornell Woolrich on cinema? What does Ida Lupino's Outrage (1950) have to say about "what we now know to call rape culture"? Plus Boris Nelepo on Alain Resnais's Life of Riley, Kenji Fujishima and Carson Lund on Michael Glawogger's Workingman's Death, Joseph Nechvatal on Henri Langlois and more. » - David Hudson...

Craig (from Dark Eye Socket) here with Take Three. This week actress and director Ida Lupino

Ida Lupino a "sensation" circa 1941

Take One: The Bigamist (1953)

The Bigamist probes unseemly marital behaviour and stews on moral sorrows. At its centre is Edmond O’Brien toing and froing between two wives. But behind the camera as director, and in a supporting role as O’Brien’s second, San Francisco wife Phyllis Martin, is Ida Lupino. Her unfussy direction creates lean drama and her performance beautifully matches it, with nary an unnecessary furtive glance or superfluous line spoken. She’s a woman bored on a bus tour of Hollywood stars’ homes, chatted up by O’Brien’s depressed bigamist Harry Graham.

Edmond as Harry: Haven’t you any interest in how the other half lives?

Ida as Phyllis: No, not particularly. I’m just crazy about bus rides – gives me a chance to get off my feet.

One of the best things about living in Austin is getting to attend some of the classic films that screen each summer at the Paramount Theatre. The full Paramount Summer Classic Film Series schedule has just been released, with movies screening at Stateside this year, too.

Here are some from the bunch I find worth noting:

Pillow Talk (1959), pictured above, helps start the summer series off -- screening with the far more serious To Kill a Mockingbird. Although I've been a fan of classic movies since elementary school, it is only in recent years that my love and admiration for Doris Day has grown. This comedy, featuring Day as an interior designer forced to share a party line with playboy Rock Hudson, is now one of my favorite movies, and I can't wait to see it on the big screen! (9:35 Thurs, 5/24; 7 pm Fri, 5/25)An Affair to Remember (1957) -- Cary Grant,...

Lately I’ve been thinking about the lost careers of female directors. Watching Barbara Loden‘s Wanda (1971) can do that to you. Despite our common surnames she’s not related to me that I know of, but watching that film makes me think of long-lost sisters. Lost in that I don’t know them—I never got to know them—and lost in that they have become unmoored from something stable and sure, struggling for footing in a male-dominated world.

The heroine of Wanda is an extreme version of the heroines I’ve discovered in the films of Ida Lupino (1918-1995), another actress who turned to directing mid-career. Lupino herself can’t exactly be considered lost as a director—she has a decent body of feature-film work and an impressive television resume. But seeing what she left behind, it’s tempting to think how many more films she might have...