Ellen Cheshire
#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...
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Ellen Cheshire
- Sep 10, 2020
- 7 min
Operation Fascination: Diana Rigg
2020 is the 55th anniversary of Diana Rigg's first appearance as Emma Peel in the British TV show The Avengers. As a teen in the 1980s I...
Ellen Cheshire
- Jun 27, 2020
- 7 min
A - Z of films Directed by Women
Following on from May's #30DayFilmChallenge where I enjoyed revisiting films in my collection which I'd not watched in some time, in June...
Ellen Cheshire
- Jun 7, 2020
- 3 min
#52FilmsByWomen - 5th Year of films Directed by Women
Well the good news is that each 'year' it is getting easier to find films directed by women, on the down side they still only represent a...
Ellen Cheshire
- May 20, 2020
- 5 min
How Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala changed my life.
I've been doing a #30DayFilmChallenge, and day 20 is a 'Film that changed your life'. It was a tough one as I couldn't initially recall a...
Ellen Cheshire
- Oct 14, 2019
- 4 min
#52FilmsByWomen - 4th Year of films Directed by Women
The #52FilmsByWomen pledge was started in 2015 by Los Angeles’ Women in Film, an organisation dedicated to promoting equal opportunities...
Ellen Cheshire
- Aug 22, 2019
- 4 min
Leni Riefenstahl - documentary filmmaker or propagandist?
On this day, 22 August 1902, Leni Riefenstahl was born in Berlin. As you may have spotted from my writing and talks, I am very interested...
Ellen Cheshire
- Aug 14, 2019
- 3 min
Marvellous Mira Nair
With the Chichester International Film Festival scheduling a screening of Monsoon Wedding on 20 August at 20.45 I thought I'd post a...
Ellen Cheshire
- Jun 10, 2019
- 1 min
Early Women Filmmakers: Films Directed by Women
Last night, or was it early morning I set my alarm for 0230 in order to do a radio interview with Paul Ross on his Late Late Early Early...
Ellen Cheshire
- May 6, 2019
- 1 min
Perfect Night In
Neil Perryman host of podcast Perfect Night In invited me to plan my perfect night of television for his Desert Island Disc-style show......
Ellen Cheshire
- Mar 29, 2019
- 1 min
Women in front of & behind the camera: an overview of films Directed by Women
This year the fabulous independent art house cinema in Chichester, the Chichester Cinema in New Park is celebrating its 40th Anniversary....
Ellen Cheshire
- Feb 1, 2019
- 19 min
Women on British Television: Top 10 Female Icons
This feature on iconic women from British TV was commissioned for Classic Television magazine in 2001. The publication sadly folded...
Ellen Cheshire
- Jan 24, 2019
- 1 min
Directed by Women - Crucial 21st Century Cinema
Crucial 21st Century Cinema #Crucial21DbW is #DirectedbyWomen's fantastic initiative for 2019. Every day they are publishing a blog post...
Ellen Cheshire
- Jan 3, 2019
- 2 min
My Top 10 Films of 2018
Narrowing down my top 10 films to just 10 was really tough. Could have easily been a top 20! And there's still some films that have been...
Ellen Cheshire
- Dec 20, 2018
- 3 min
#52FilmsByWomen - 3rd Year of films Directed by Women
A few weeks ahead of schedule, I have completed my third year pledging to watch #52FilmsByWomen. Read blogs for Year 1 and Year 2....
Ellen Cheshire
- Nov 21, 2018
- 1 min
Blue Plaque for Margaret Lockwood
Margaret Lockwood was one of Britain’s biggest 1940s film stars. She was best known for her roles in The Lady Vanishes (1938) and The...
Ellen Cheshire
- Nov 14, 2018
- 2 min
Jane Campion - 25th Anniversary
2018 saw the publication of my book In the Scene: Jane Campion (Supernova Books/Aurora Metro, 2018). A book that has been 25 years in the...
Ellen Cheshire
- Apr 5, 2018
- 5 min
Remembering Gregory Peck
Just over a hundred years ago, on 5 April 1916 Eldred Peck was born in San Diego, California. After graduating from Berkeley with a BA...
Ellen Cheshire
- Mar 6, 2018
- 5 min
Have the Oscars fallen out of love with the Bio-Pic?
Actors appearing in Bio-Pics or films based on a true story have once again had a strong presence in the Oscar nominations for the 90th Acad
Ellen Cheshire
- Jan 20, 2018
- 2 min
Audrey Hepburn: Dutch in 7 Lessons (1948)
On this day 25 years ago Audrey Hepburn sadly passed away. But let's not dwell on this sad end, as this year is the 70th anniversary of...
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