#harriet chadha

[iceflwers]

𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓽 “𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓻𝓲” 𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓭𝓱𝓪 !

˚✧ ₊˚ʚ THE BASICS !

— ❥ FULL NAME: Harriet Chadha.

— ❥ NICKNAMES: Harri (most commonly used), Princess, Elle Woods, Molly Ringwald (by close friends only), beta, priy, ulloo (by family only), Sissy (by Luke only), babe, baby (by Jack only), pretty girl (by Jack only).

— ❥ DATE OF BIRTH: February 9th, 2003 (Aquarius).

— ❥ BIRTHPLACE: Dearborn, Michigan, United States.

— ❥ CURRENT RESIDENCE: Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.

— ❥ SPOKEN LANGUAGES: English, Hindi (not fluently), Spanish (not fluently), French (not fluently).

— ❥ ORIENTATION: Panromantic, pansexual.

— ❥ GENDER IDENTITY: Cisgender female (she/her pronouns).

— ❥ OCCUPATION: University history student.

— ❥ FACECLAIM: Avantika Vandanapu.

˚✧ ₊˚ʚ PERSONALITY !

— ❥ HOGWARTS HOUSE: Ravenclaw (intelligent, creative, wise).

— ❥ MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE: ISFJ - The Defender (observant, reliable, humble).

— ❥ ENNEAGRAM TYPE: Type Three - The Achiever (charming, self-assured, authentic).

— ❥ MORAL ALIGNMENT: Lawful Good.

— ❥ LOVE LANGUAGES: Physical touch for giving and receiving.

— ❥ SKILLS: Photographic memory, speed reading, calligraphy, skilled at studying, people skills, makeup, hair styling, switching quickly between languages, outfit coordination, cooking.

— ❥ LIKES: Getting good grades, looking good, surprising people with her intellect, dancing around her dorm room, going to parties with her friends, finishing an assignment knowing that she did her best on it, getting her eyeliner exactly right on the first try, well-made chai, spending quality time with her loved ones.

— ❥ DISLIKES: Boring people, people assuming she’s stupid just because she’s pretty and enjoys looking cute, black coffee, getting a lower grade than she feels she deserves, sour candy, fake people.

— ❥ FEARS/PHOBIAS: Failure, disappointing the people she loves, blood, great heights, falling down a flight of stairs.

˚✧ ₊˚ʚ RELATIONSHIPS !

— ❥ FAMILY: Chandrika Chadha (mother), Kamal Chadha (father), Ashish Chadha (older brother), Kapil Chadha (older brother), Pavarti Chadha (older sister).

— ❥ FRIENDS: Luke Hughes, Daisy Ahn, Matty Beniers, Dawson Mercer, Luca Fantilli, Timo Meier, Matthew Knies, Ethan Edwards.

— ❥ ACQUAINTANCES: Rutger McGoarty, remainder of the UMich hockey roster, remainder of the New Jersey Devils roster, Quinn Hughes, Trevor Zegras, Cole Caufield, Nick Suzuki, Artūrs Šilovs.

— ❥ ROMANTIC INTERESTS: Ravi Kaur (first crush), Henry Butler (first boyfriend), Carla Ragetti (summer fling), Vaughn Harlowe (ex-boyfriend), Peter Mount (brief fling), Alex Jacobsen (ex-partner), Matthew Knies (brief crush), Ethan Edwards (brief fling), Jack Hughes (current romantic interest).

˚✧ ₊˚ʚ FUN FACTS !

— ❥ Although Harri despises being her nickname after Elle Woods and the comparisons always being drawn between her and the character, she does actually love the character herself, as well as the Legally Blonde movie and musical both. She can often be heard humming the song “Chip on Your Shoulder” while studying, and about half the musical soundtrack is in her Liked Songs on Spotify.

— ❥ As much as she really does love her family and siblings, Luke is, at the end of the day, her favourite person in the world. They just understand each other on a level no one else understands either of them, and they have an amazing bond.

— ❥ Harri has a fear of drowning, and it can even sometimes prevent her from going swimming at all, though not always. Nobody in her family is quite sure where the fear comes from, because she’s never actually had any bad experiences with water, but it’s there nonetheless.

— ❥ She’s slept with Ethan Edwards a few times on and off, but they only do it once more after Harri meets Jack; she’d known, even then, that she wasn’t going to want anybody else after this.

— ❥ She has a tendency to fuss over any of the boys when they get even slightly hurt playing hockey, and this definitely extends to Jack once they start dating, and any of Luke’s friends on the Devils once he gets drafted; she’s not generally any kind of a mother hen, but it’s different for her boys.

tagging @lovings4turn, @hiya-itsamber, @theopenlocker, & @yoontwin ! ( also tentatively tagging @wintfleur )

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[aphrmoosun]

So I wanted to speak about it. I am in summer holidays and I'm watching shows I couldn't before. I have watched The Decameron and after it I want to watch first Maxton hall and the My Lady Jane or the other way. But I wanted to watch then but OOH again Prime Video cancelling its shows because they don't think it makes good ciphers... I haven't watched My Lady Jane yet but they already cancelled it... It isn't the first time they do it. I want to watch a show and they say NO WE ARE NOT DOING MORE OF IT. I will watch My Lady Jane but I am going to watch first Maxton Hall because they are taking good things from people and I have to support the active shows first AND I want to watch it to watch some sequels if it has one in the future.

They expect too much from the shows made for women. It is romance, it is a period show, it is a woman protagonist then all the brid****** watchers must come to watch this show too... and it does not work like this. I hate these platforms, I hate that they put ads when I'M PAYING it and I hate that they don't stop increasing the payment, I hate that they cancel the shows before I ever have time to watch it. They really suck.

[chalamet-noir]

yes, the oscars nominations are overly male, and overly white. don’t watch the broadcast. watch a film directed by a poc or woman.

hustlers - dir. lorene scafaria 

the farewell - dir. lulu wang  

harriet - dir. kasi lemmons 

a beautiful day in the neighborhood - dir. marielle heller

frozen II - dir. jennifer lee 

queen & slim - dir. melina matsoukas  

portrait of a lady on fire - dir. celine sciamma 

little women - dir. greta gerwig

clemency - dir. chinonye chukwu 

us - dir. jordan peele  

high life - dir. claire denis 

atlantics - dir. mati diop 

booksmart - dir. olivia wilde

just mercy - dir. destin daniel cretton 

the souvenir - dir. joanna hogg 

blinded by the light - dir. gurinder chadha 

greener grass - dir. jocelyn deboer & dawn luebbe 

honey boy - dir. alma har’el 

captain marvel - dir. anna boden 

the third wife - dir. ash mayfair 

abominable - dir. jill culton 

the nightingale - dir. jennifer kent 

passing - dir. rebecca hall 

one child nation - dir. nanfu wang 

fast color - dir. julia hart 

late night - dir. nisha ganatra 

[fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors]

Year in Review: The Most Notable News About Women Directors in 2019

Director Angela Schanelec wins the silver bear for Best Director at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival for her film I Was at Home, But….

Schanelec is the 4th woman to win Best Director at Berlinale. The previous women winners are Astrid Henning-Jensen in 1979 for Vinterborn, Małgorzata Szumowska for Body in 2015 and Mia Hansen-Løve for Things to Come in 2016.

Three women of colour, all of Asian descent, win Oscars for directing. Canadian director Domee Shi wins Best Animated Short Film at the Oscars for her film Bao,  Rayka Zehtabchi win the Best Documentary – Short Subject Oscar for Period. End of Sentence and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin wins the Oscar for Best Feature Documentary for Free Solo.

Anna Boden breaks the record for the highest opening weekend for a film directed by a woman when Captain Marvel, which she directed with Ryan Fleck, opens with an $150 million dollar weekend. The film also later breaks the record for highest grossing film directed by a woman temporarily beating Frozen’s record, only to be unseated a few short months later by the release of Frozen II! 

French legend Agnès Varda, who began making films in 1955 and continued to 2019, dies at the age of 90.

French director Mati Diop becomes the first black woman director to have a film compete for the Palme d’or with her debut film Atlantics (other black women directors have shown movies at Cannes but never in Official Competition). She goes on to win the Grand Prix, widely considered the second highest prize at the festival. She becomes only the 4th woman to win the prize following Márta Mészáros in 1984, Naomi Kawase in 2007, and Alice Rochwacher in 2014.

Céline Sciamma becomes the first woman to win the Queer Palme, an award presented by journalists given to films with LGBT main characters that play at Cannes. She also wins the Best Screenplay award in the official Cannes competition. Sciamma is only the third female scriptwriter to win for a script she didn’t co-write (following other director-writer’s Lynne Ramsay in 2017 and Alice Rohrwacher in 2018). Interestingly enough Ramsay and Rohrwacher both tied with screenplays written by men making 2019 the first year at Cannes where there were no men represented in the Best Screenplay category.

Actress Tessa Thompson urges fellow actors and producers to work with at least one female director every 18 months popularizing the “4% challenge” named after the 4% of the box office that women directed films typically make up. 

Italian director Lina Wertmüller recieves an honorary Oscar. Wertmüller is the first woman to recieve a nomination for Best Direction at the Oscars for her film Seven Beauties.

20 films directed by women are given wide releases, the most ever in one calendar year. It’s progress but that still only represents about 1/6 of the films given wide releases. And while progress is being made, it’s clear that there is still work to do to achieve both gender and racial parity as the vast majority of gains are going to white women who are only working to promote other white creatives. 

The movies and their directors:

Miss Bala (Catherine Hardwicke), Poms (Zara Hayes), Breakthrough (Roxann Dawson), After (Jenny Gage),  Booksmart (Olivia Wilde), Captain Marvel (Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck), The Sun is Also a Star (Ry Russo-Young), Little (Tina Gordon Chism), Blinded by the Light (Gurinder Chadha),The Farewell (Lulu Wang), The Kitchen (Andrea Berloff), Hustlers (Lorene Scafaria), Abominable (Jill Culton & Todd Wilderman), Harriet (Kasi Lemmons),  Queen & Slim (Melina Matsoukas), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Marielle Heller) Charlie’s Angels (Elizabeth Banks), Frozen II (Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee), Black Christmas (Sophia Takal) Little Women (Greta Gerwig)

No women directors are nominated for Best Director at the Golden Globes. This happens most years (only 2 women, Ava DuVernay and Kathryn Bigelow were nominated this decade) but perhaps this year was one of the most egregious. Every year women direct amazing award worthy movies but it’s not every year that they get critical acclaim, box office and campaigns. And this year there were so many. This was reflected more in the acting nominees (7 of whom came from 7 different movies directed by women). The field is getting wider and studios are finally starting to awaken to the fact that women can direct. But the depressing lack of nominees in director shows that despite all the progress men (and almost overwhelmingly white men) are still seen as the most worthy of praise and awards. 

[letterboxd]

Top 100 Women Directors.

Ella Kemp takes a deep-dive into our newest all-time stats addition—the top 100 films directed by women—and finds, to nobody’s surprise, that Agnès Varda is indisputably the GOAT.

There are countless ‘best of’ lists on Letterboxd to track your progress against; some are maintained by our staff, while others are contributed by passionate members. If you’ve upgraded to Pro or Patron level, there’s a section on your all-time stats page (accessible directly from your profile) where we’ve gathered twelve key lists against which you can track your progress at a glance (example below), and we’ve also added ‘Completed Collections’ for Patrons, showing all franchises of three or more films that you’ve seen in their entirety (excluding unreleased entries).

In the interests of promoting a diverse range of titles, we’ve recently added a Top 100 Women Directors list to your all-time stats, compiled by Jack Moulton and ranked by overall weighted average rating. In other words, these are the female-directed (and female-identifying-directed) films that you, the Letterboxd community, have chosen as the best.

To celebrate, we invited Letterboxd member, writer and Girls on Tops photographer Ella Kemp to cast her eye over the current list (it’s bound to change in future based on new ratings cast).

Encompassing thousands of votes to meticulously rate and root for the greatest films we have courtesy of women directors, Letterboxd’s newest all-time list offers a sobering dissection of the way we consume movies—and how much we recognize the women responsible for these works.

At first glance, a scroll through the list boasts a generous handful of posters designed in the last couple of years. Five features released in the past twelve to eighteen months have made it straight to the top 20 (Portrait of A Lady on Fire, The Farewell, Booksmart, Lady Bird and Capernaum) with one of those films—not even publicly released in cinemas yet, but making waves at festivals around the world—already sitting at number two. That’s the power of Céline Sciamma and her Portrait.

Céline Sciamma’s ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ (2019).

Diving deeper, Sciamma’s top-tier triumph exemplifies a few key patterns. She returns at number 64 with Tomboy, reminding us what a great shame it is that her excellent feature Girlhood didn’t make the list, but confirming that France appears to be one of the best countries in the world for women to make movies: the list comprises 23 French features, which, considering the US’s oft-perceived monopoly on the film industry, feels monumental.

But of course, it’s not accidental either. This year sadly marked the passing of Agnès Varda, indisputably the GOAT. She stands proud as the most prolific contributor with six features, two in the top 20. To grieve, to remember, at least we can always keep watching.

Another singular trailblazer is Scotswoman Lynne Ramsay. She has four entries, but what’s most impressive is that these are, well, all the feature films she’s made to date. Her fourth entry, Morvern Callar, sneaks in at number 100.

Elaine May and Chantal Akerman both have three entries, which may come as no surprise to cinephiles, but it’s also the same number of entries as Japanese animator Naoko Yamada (whose A Silent Voice sits in sixteenth place on our list). This reveals an open-minded slant, one that acknowledges the widely perceived touchstones but also embraces further-reaching works from lesser-known artists. Five features are Japanese, four are German, three Italian, and three Indian.

Naoko Yamada’s ‘A Silent Voice’ (2016).

The lean still remains very much with the US, and yet few films on the list break records for eye-watering budgets. The Matrix, courtesy of the Wachowskis, was made for $63 million, and Shrek, co-directed by Vicky Jenson, had a budget of $60 million. Aside from these two, projects on the list seldom had more than $10–15 million to get the job done.

When looking at the list’s omissions, one almost unanimous absence is that of the highest-grossing films of all time directed by women. No Sleepless in Seattle, no Frozen, no Fifty Shades of Grey. No Nora Ephron, No Nancy Meyers. No Ava DuVernay. It’s a peculiar gap, as the influence of these writers and filmmakers is hardly one to be contested. And, to close the circle on big budgets, $120-150-million-wielding Patty Jenkins is also absent. The highest-grossing film directed by a woman (with no male directing partner)—a cool $821.8 million at the global box office—did not make the cut.

On this topic, there are sixteen films co-directed by women on the list. A co-directing mention is a crucial credit. It’s like the trust exercises that used to be taught in school drama classes—how would they work if one party wasn’t there to catch the other as they fell? What’s the point in being brave if you don’t also have some kind of promise of safety? Partners need each other, and these directors needed partners to reach the heights they did. City of God, co-directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, was nominated for four Oscars, and yet Meirelles was still the only filmmaker credited at the ceremony. The Academy chose to disregard Lund, but our list does not. There are five female co-directors in the top 20. One of the highest-grossing films on the list, Shrek, would not be what it is without Vicky Jenson.

Also curious: Palme d’Or winner Jane Campion makes the list, best director Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow does not. Overall, the list shows a vast body of skill, a crop of familiar names, some deeply felt absences and—hopefully—a whole lot of additions to watchlists. Further names that deserve to be sought out, in no particular order, include Mabel Normand, Maya Deren, Josephine Decker, Jennie Livingston, Mia Hansen-Løve, Dee Rees, Joanna Hogg, Gurinder Chadha, Barbara Hammer, and directors with new films soon to be released: Marielle Heller (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood), Niki Caro (the live-action Mulan) and Kasi Lemmons (Harriet).

Chantal Akerman’s ‘Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles’ (1975).

Writing this breakdown gave me plenty of homework, and it shed light on a lot of works that I’m yet to catch up with. At first I thought it pretty normal to not have seen as many on the list as I would have liked, taking into account my age, access and time, but the further I went, the more names cropped up that I didn’t recognize, and the more I recalled my three years studying film at university and not having learned anything about so many of these women.

I should know more names. I should have been set more assignments regarding more of these names. I can do more, but so too can those above me, those who taught me and continue to teach others, about who makes the films that are worth learning about. We now have lists such as this one—it’s high time we start to properly use them.

Header image: Agnès Varda (with her own 1962 self-portrait) in Faces Places.

Related content

Films Directed by Women: Vanessa’s comprehensive—and growing—master list, and her shorter, highly recommended list

Female Cinematographers: The Master List

Written by Women: a master list of scripts written by women

Five filmmakers Jane Campion wants you to watch next

Our Q&A with Debra Granik

Little White Lies’ 100 Great Movies by Female Directors

Female directors recommended by Tilda Swinton

Iranian Women Make Films: a list of Iranian female directors

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen: the story of trailblazing Māori filmmaker Merata Mita (available on Netflix, distributed by Array)

[popculty]

52 Films By Women: 2019

(actually 54, because I’m extra and women directors killed it this year)

1. The Edge of Seventeen (2016) dir. Kelly Fremon Craig

2. Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) dir. Susan Seidelman

3. Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017) dir. Alexandra Dean

4. Yentl (1983) dir. Barbra Streisand

5. 6 Balloons (2018) dir. Marja-Lewis Ryan

6. Never Goin’ Back (2018) dir. Augustine Frizzell

7. The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018) dir. Susanna Fogel

8. The Party (2017) dir. Sally Potter

9. My First Mister (2001) dir. Christine Lahti

10. Woodshock (2017) dir. Kate and Laura Mulleavey

11. The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018) dir. Desiree Akhavan*

12. Mary Queen of Scots (2018) dir. Josie Rourke

13. Bird Box (2018) dir. Susanne Bier

14. Destroyer (2018) dir. Karyn Kusama*

15. Unicorn Store (2017) dir. Brie Larson

16. A Vigilante (2018) dir. Sarah Daggar-Nickson

17. Woman Walks Ahead (2017) dir. Susanna White

18. Captain Marvel (2019) dir. Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck

19. Wild Nights with Emily (2018) dir. Madeleine Olnek

20. The Nightingale (2018) dir. Jennifer Kent

21. The Trials of Cate McCall (2013) dir. Karen Moncrieff

22. Tell it to the Bees (2018) dir. Annabel Jankel

23. Someone Great (2019) dir. Jennifer Kaytin Robinson

24. Aniara (2018) dir. Pella Kågerman & Hugo Lilja

25. Go Back to China (2019) dir. Emily Ting*

26. What Walaa Wants (2018) dir. Christy Garland

27. Pigeon Kings (2019) dir. Milena Pastreich

28. Booksmart (2019) dir. Olivia Wilde

29. Honeyland (2019) dir. Tamara Kotevska & Ljubomir Stefanov

30. Fast Color (2018) dir. Julia Hart

31. Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) dir. Marielle Heller

32. Ghost Fleet (2018) dir. Shannon Service & Jeffrey Waldron

33. The Breadwinner (2017) dir. Nora Twomey

34. Vita & Virginia (2018) dir. Chanya Button

35. Little Woods (2018) dir. Nia DaCosta*

36. The Farewell (2019) dir. Lulu Wang*

37. Them That Follow (2019) dir. Britt Poulton & Daniel Savage

38. Mary Shelley (2017) dir. Haifaa Al-Mansour*

39. Ophelia (2019) dir. Claire McCarthy

40. Blinded by the Light (2019) dir. Gurinder Chadha*

41. One Child Nation (2019) dir. Nanfu Wang & Lynn Zhang*

42. Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019) dir. Katt Shea

43. Hustlers (2019) dir. Lorene Scafaria

44. My Days of Mercy (2017) dir. Tali Shalom Ezer

45. The Falling (2014) dir. Carol Morley

46. Braid (2018) dir. Mitzi Peirone

47. Honey Boy (2019) dir. Alma Har’el

48. Harriet (2019) dir. Kasi Lemmons*

49. Tank Girl (1995) dir. Rachel Talalay

50. Paradise Hills (2019) dir. Alice Waddington

51. The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019) dir. Elle-Maija Tailfeathers & Kathleen Hepburn*

52. Frozen II (2019) dir. Jennifer Lee & Chris Buck

53. Charlie’s Angels (2019) dir. Elizabeth Banks

54. Little Women (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig

bold = my faves

* = directed by a woman of color

[drdavidhuxley]

2019 in Film

28. Spider-Man: Far From Home (dir. Jon Watts, 2019) 29. Hustlers (dir. Lorene Scafaria, 2019) 30. Downton Abbey (dir. Michael Engler, 2019) 31. Harriet (dir. Kasi Lemmons, 2019) 32. Whisper of the Heart (dir. Yoshifumi Kondou, 1995) 33. Last Christmas (dir. Paul Feig, 2019) 34. Knives Out (dir. Rian Johnson, 2019) 35. Blinded by the Light (dir. Gurinder Chadha, 2019) 36. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (dir. Marielle Heller, 2019) 37. Pain and Glory (dir. Pedro Almodóvar, 2019)

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