BBC / Top 100 films directed by women: A new golden age of cinema?

According to Alicia Malone, an Australian critic and presenter based in Hollywood, “The time period since the 1990s has been a golden age for women’s cinema… Mostly because it was so dire before then. In the 1950s, 60s and 70s, there were trailblazers like Hollywood’s Ida Lupino, France’s Agnès Varda, Czechoslovakia’s Věra Chytilová and Australia’s Gillian Armstrong – but more often than not, they were the sole female voice within their country’s cinematic movement,” says Malone, the author of Backwards and in Heels, a history of women working in cinema.

Full article found here: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20191203-top-100-films-directed-by-women-a-new-golden-age-of-cinema