Filmmakers : What proportion of your ranked movies are by women?

[prowler]

do you have any evidence that it isn't simply because women are not as good as men at directing films? Maybe they all drop out of film school by choice. Maybe women have an unnaturally high prevalence of realizing midway through their film studies that they don't want to pursue that path. Don't misunderstand me now, I don't think either scenario is even close to being as likely as the more obvious sexism scenario, but these are all things that you need to consider before deciding to act upon a "problem".

uhh yeah. isn't even considering this sexist in itself, taking a male-centric perspective on cinema and judging women for not aligning to it?

sorry for the late reply, hadn't noticed your post before.

i liked your "don't be sexist" speech but i think it's never that easy

[Moribunny]

2.85%, which means 77, according to Criticker, but the collection is probably missing some, it includes male/female collaborations, and apparently someone added Bela Tarr movies to the collection because they didn't realize that in Hungary Bela is a male name.

Interestingly a whopping 15% of them are in my Tier 10. So good job women, please direct more movies.

My top three spots are taken by Lina Wertmuller films, and after that I have stuff by Lynne Ramsay, Margarethe von Trotta (with V. Schloendorff), Vera Chytilova, Kathryn Bigelow, Forugh Farrokhzad, Jodie Foster, Marjane Satrapi, Lotte Reiniger, Elaine May...

[PeaceAnarchy]

2.85%, which means 77, according to Criticker, but the collection is probably missing some, it includes male/female collaborations, and apparently someone added Bela Tarr movies to the collection because they didn't realize that in Hungary Bela is a male name.

Ágnes Hranitzky is female though and she co-directed those movies..

[Antares]

2.9%

[ShogunRua]

My top three spots are taken by Lina Wertmuller films,

Yeah, she is amazing. One of my top 5 favorite directors, period. Surprised she doesn't get more acclaim.

[Bondo]

308/1789 as listed by Criticker...but I've actually seen more like 4000 films and a number of female directed films not in the collection here so I'd say the true number for me is somewhere around 10% of the films I've seen have female directors. I've made a particular point of it though.

[Svengali]

2.8%

Yeah, I'm a male chauvinist pig like that There's two Tier 10 films though; Werckmeister Harmoies and The House Is Black. I should really check out Lina Wertmüller someday though...