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#52FilmsByWomen - 13th 'Year' of films Directed by Women

Ellen Cheshire

Jul 29, 20223 min read

#52FilmsByWomen - 13th 'Year' of films Directed by Women

With the notional 'year' element that came with the #52FilmsByWomen pledge out the window, this is now my 13th batch of 52 films since...

#DirectedbyWomen 1969 - 1940 - make a connection with these films

Ellen Cheshire

May 19, 20222 min read

#DirectedbyWomen 1969 - 1940 - make a connection with these films

For International Women's Day I did a blog, #DirectedbyWomen 2000 -2021- Stories Women Tell, where I selected a single film per year,...

#52FilmsByWomen - 12th 'Year' of films Directed by Women

Ellen Cheshire

May 17, 20223 min read

#52FilmsByWomen - 12th 'Year' of films Directed by Women

With the notional 'year' element that came with the #52FilmsByWomen pledge out the window, this is now my 12th batch of 52 films since...

#DirectedbyWomen 1970 - 1999 - be a cheerleader for these films!

Ellen Cheshire

Apr 11, 20221 min read

#DirectedbyWomen 1970 - 1999 - be a cheerleader for these films!

For International Women's Day I did a blog, Stories Women Tell: Films #DirectedbyWomen 2000 -2021, where I selected a single film per...

#DirectedbyWomen 2000-2021 - stories Women Tell: Films

Ellen Cheshire

Mar 8, 20222 min read

#DirectedbyWomen 2000-2021 - stories Women Tell: Films

The theme for International Women's Day 2022 is #BreakingtheBias, where we are asked to: Imagine a gender equal world... A world free of...

Ellen Cheshire

Mar 4, 20222 min read

#OTD 1975 Charlie Chaplin was knighted

On the 4 March 1975, a frail 85 year old Charlie Chaplin, became Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin when he was knighted by the Queen at...

#52FilmsByWomen - 11th 'Year' of films Directed by Women

Ellen Cheshire

Mar 4, 20222 min read

#52FilmsByWomen - 11th 'Year' of films Directed by Women

With the notional 'year' element that came with the #52FilmsByWomen pledge out the window, this is now my 11th batch of 52 films since...

Ellen Cheshire

Jan 1, 20222 min read

Five Lists: #TopTenFilms2021

With 670 Films and TV series watched in 2021, sorting out my Top 10s has proved a challenge! But I had a go! Sadly, I couldn’t compile a...

#52FilmsByWomen - 10th 'Year' of films Directed by Women

Ellen Cheshire

Nov 7, 20213 min read

#52FilmsByWomen - 10th 'Year' of films Directed by Women

Well, with the notional 'year' element that came with the #52FilmsByWomen pledge out the window, this is now my 10th batch of 52 "films"...

Marie Antoinette (2006) Marie Antoinette (1755-1793)

Ellen Cheshire

Oct 16, 20215 min read

Marie Antoinette (2006) Marie Antoinette (1755-1793)

Royal bio-pics have been a mainstay of commercial cinema since its inception. Historians fear them, as ultimately, they are seen as a...

Ellen Cheshire

Aug 31, 20212 min read

125 Years of Film in Chichester

125 years ago on the 31 August 1896 audiences expecting a usual night of traditional music hall entertainment at the Pier Pavilion,...

Ellen Cheshire

Aug 15, 20213 min read

Disney's Snow White (1937)

A recent twitter question about the first film you saw in cinemas, brought to mind my first visit, on 22 February 1974 to the Muswell...

Ellen Cheshire

May 17, 20213 min read

Top 10 Films Set in Cinemas

Today is the 17 May 2021, and across the UK cinemas are re-opening. And boy, have I missed going to the cinema! Over the past year I have...

#52FilmsByWomen - 9th 'Year' of films Directed by Women

Ellen Cheshire

Apr 10, 20213 min read

#52FilmsByWomen - 9th 'Year' of films Directed by Women

Well, with the notional 'year' element that came with the #52FilmsByWomen pledge out the window, this is now my 9th batch of 52 "films"...

Disney's Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)

Ellen Cheshire

Mar 5, 20213 min read

Disney's Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? is an innovative and hugely entertaining film. You can easily forgive the holes in the plot and one-dimensional...

Time for The Children's Hour - #LGBTHistoryMonth

Ellen Cheshire

Feb 4, 20213 min read

Time for The Children's Hour - #LGBTHistoryMonth

February is #LGBTHistoryMonth and I am focusing my film watching on LGBTQ films. Check out my diary at letterboxd. After the epic Ben Hur...

Ellen Cheshire

Jan 24, 20214 min read

Cukor's Fair Lady (Audrey Hepburn)

In 1914 George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion was first staged - a huge furore broke out when Eliza Doolittle uttered the line “I washed...

Ellen Cheshire

Jan 22, 20216 min read

Objectifying Spartacus!

Re-watching Spartacus today in remembrance of Jean Simmons who died on this day (22 January) in 2010, I was reminded that I'd written an...

'Complicated machines for saying Boo!': the tales of Edgar Allan Poe

Ellen Cheshire

Jan 19, 202110 min read

'Complicated machines for saying Boo!': the tales of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe's name is synonymous with horror and detective fiction. He is considered to be the father of both the detective story,...

Ellen Cheshire

Jan 5, 20212 min read

21 Films #DirectedbyWomen since 2000

In celebration of International Women's Day in March 2020, I set myself the challenge to pick one film a year, directed by a woman since...