Early Women Filmmakers: An International Anthology

For this remarkable collection, 25 rare features, shorts and segments spanning 1902-1943, and representing the efforts of 14 pioneering female directors--including Lois Weber, Lotte Reiniger, Alice Guy-Blaché, Mabel Normand, Leni Riefenstahl, Maya Deren, and Dorothy Arzner--have been recovered, restored and rescored. Includes "Les Chiens Savants" (1902), "Une Histoire Roulante" (1906), "La Barricade" (1907), "Falling Leaves" (1912), "Making an American Citizen" (1912), "The Girl in the Armchair" (1912), "Suspense" (1913), "Mabel's Strange Predicament" (1914), "Discontent" (1916), "The Star Prince" (1918), "La Cigarette" (1919), "The Blot" (1921), "La Souriante Mme. Beudet" (1922), "The Peasant Women of Ryazan" (1927), "Le Roi des Aulnes" (1929), "Harlequin" (1931), "A Night on Bald Mountain" (1933), "The Stolen Heart" (1934), "The Woman Condemned" (1934), "Day of Freedom" (1935), "Papageno" (1935), "Parabola" (1937), "Spook Sport" (1939), "Dance, Girl, Dance" (excerpt) (1940), and "Meshes of the Afternoon" (1943). 11 hrs. on 3 Blu-rays/3 DVDs.