New York Times: Overlooked No More: Alice Guy Blaché, the World’s First Female Filmmaker
Even before women had the right to vote, Blaché, in her actions and in her films, expressed female drives, desires and self-determination.
NorthJersey.com: One of the first movie moguls was a woman — and her studio was in Fort Lee
When the movie business began — roughly 1895 — it was the Wild West. There were no rules. And consequently there was no one to tell Alice Guy-Blaché that ladies do not become movie directors.
BBC News: Video Guy-Blache: The untold story of first female film director
Hollywood actress Jodie Foster has narrated a documentary paying tribute to Alice Guy-Blache who is credited with being the world’s first female film director.
Blache made her first movie in 1896 and was subsequently involved in the production of some 1,000 films from shorts to features.
BBC Talking Movies’ Tom Brook reports.
BBC - Travel Was this the First US' Film town?
A famous black-and-white image from the early days of film shows actress Pearl White looking coyly to her side while three men – one standing beside a movie camera, the others closer to the ground behind the actress – are setting up a scene on a precarious cliff above a distant body of water. The now-iconic still is from White’s 1918 film serial The House of Hate, a nail-biting murder mystery that ended in suspenseful cliffhangers each week.
New York Times: You Know These 20 Movies. Now Meet the Women Behind Them
This season will bring a number of female-driven movies, including new work from Nicole Holofcener, Karyn Kusama and other directors who just might be poised for a breakthrough. These films are reminders that even as female activists continue to demand industry reform post-Harvey Weinstein, women — much as they have always done — are also working hard as writers, directors, producers and costume designers.
NorthJersey.com: Barrymore Film Center in Fort Lee will have a distinguished profile
John Barrymore, famously, had the "great profile."
The Barrymore Film Center, half-completed on the corner of Fort Lee's Main Street and Park Avenue, has an unusual one.
Even on Tuesday morning, with just the naked beams in place, the building seemed modern and striking.
"The last girder I signed was on the Freedom Tower," remarked Fort Lee Mayor Mark J. Sokolich, lifted by elevator-scaffold to a high beam where, in the company of other dignitaries, he signed the girder with a Sharpie. "So excited. Mayor Mark Sokolich, 5-28-19."
Among the things not in place on Tuesday was the roof. Between the joists, rain fell intermittently.