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American actress, director and documentarian, blacklisted in the 1950s; won the Academy Award for Shampoo (1975) and directed Down and Out in America (1986), an Oscar-winning documentary.
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Harlan County USAOther Barbara Kopple
Right after it played, Harlan County USA came on. I was floored by the depth of those characters, the scale and immediacy of that story, and how it came to life without any studio support or trickery or magic.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Lee Grant, the entry for Harlan County USA.
2024-07-17·criterion.com ↗
La Cage aux FollesOther Edouard Molinaro
But La Cage aux Folles—in this form, as well as in its Broadway and Birdcage incarnations—is a delight, and without it I would never have found my way to our documentary.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Lee Grant, the entry for La Cage aux Folles.
2024-07-17·criterion.com ↗
Being ThereOther Hal Ashby
Being There has so many Hal things about it, including that charming, off-kilter blend of wit and optimism and grassy logic.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Lee Grant, the entry for Being There.
2024-07-17·criterion.com ↗
PersonaOther Ingmar Bergman
But the women in Persona, those performances, were like something out of another world.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Lee Grant, the entry for Persona.
2024-07-17·criterion.com ↗
GirlfriendsOther Claudia Weill
But what he and Claudia Weill accomplished with Girlfriends is so much more than “just trigonometry.”
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Lee Grant, the entry for Girlfriends.
2024-07-17·criterion.com ↗
The Scarlet EmpressOther Josef von Sternberg
Her films with von Sternberg are dreamy, and I’d like to think their collaboration was as well. I think of her gowns in his beyond meticulous lighting in The Scarlet Empress .
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Lee Grant, the entry for The Scarlet Empress.
2024-07-17·criterion.com ↗
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