Women Make Film

Mark Cousins’ epic odyssey of women’s cinema – plus a selection of remarkable films that feature throughout.

BFI Player FREE archive film: A Modern Guide to Health

A Modern Guide to Health Modern advice and old-fashioned values combine in this postwar animated health guide from the makers of Animal Farm Animation & Artists Moving Image, 1946, 9 mins This “modern” advice may be over 70 years old, but there is a lot of good common sense contained in this post-war health film. … More

Film: Madeline’s Madeline (15)

Madeline’s Madeline, the third feature from American filmmaker Josephine Decker is anchored by a star-making performance from newcomer Helena Howard. She plays Madeline, a talented but mentally ill New York teenager. Studying in a prestigious acting class, she is encouraged by its ambitious, spacey director Evangeline (Molly Parker) to weave her rich interior world and troubled … More

Film: The Hours (12)

Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore star as three women from different eras who are linked by their common yearnings and fears. Virginia Woolf (Kidman), in a suburb of London in the early 1920s, is battling insanity as she begins to write her first great novel, Mrs. Dalloway. A wife and mother in post-World … More