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 2000. Given that later in the year I embarked on film viewing project to watch films sequentially from 1930 to 2020, I thought I'd revisit this list to see whether any new discoveries have moved those previously selected out of the top-spot!
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2000 American Psycho, American-Canadian black comedy psychological horror directed by Mary Harron
2001 Monsoon Wedding, romantic drama in English, Hindi and Punjabi directed by Mira Nair Read how Mira Nair changed my life here
2002 Italian for Beginners, Danish romantic comedy directed by Lone Scherfig
2003 My Life Without Me, Canadian drama directed by Isabel Coixet
2004 Yes, British drama (in iambic pentameter) directed by Sally Potter
2005 The Producers, American musical-comedy directed by Susan Stroman
2006 Home, Swiss drama directed by Ursula Meier
2007 2 Days in Paris, French-German romantic comedy-drama directed and starring Julie Delpy.
2008 Sita Sings the Blues, sensational musical animation from Nina Paley - a new entry replacing a very different kind of music experience, Mamma Mia.
2009 Bright Star, British-French-Australian bio-pic directed by Jane Campion
2010 Edge, British independent drama directed by Carol Morley - a new entry replacing a similarly chilly Winter's Bone.
2011 Dreams of a Life, British drama-documentary directed by Carol Morley
2012 Stories We Tell, Canadian autobiographical documentary directed by Sarah Polley
2013 Wadjda, the first Saudi Arabian film to be written and directed by a woman, Haifaa al-Mansour
2014 A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Persian-language Vampire film directed by Ana Lily Amirpour
2015 Mustang, Turkish set film about five sisters directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven Read more
2016 Prevenge, a British comedy slasher film written by, directed by and starring Alice Lowe
2017 Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, an American bio-pic about the chap who created Wonder Woman and the two women in his life, directed and written by Angela Robinson
2018 The Rider, a hard-hitting drama using the real family who inspired it, written/directed Chloé Zhao
2019 The Portrait of a Lady on Fire, haunting French romance from Céline Sciamma
And a new addition for 2020...
2020 Emma., an adaptation of the Jane Austen classic from Autumn de Wilde.
Just to add, this is a really tough experiment, there was so many close calls.
There are plenty of other blogs on here about films #DirectedbyWomen do check them out.