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Apr 23, 2024 · Martha Coolidge (born August 17, 1946, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.) is an American filmmaker who achieved commercial success directing films often underlain by a feminist perspective. Coolidge’s father was a professor of architecture at Yale University (and third cousin of U.S. Pres. Calvin Coolidge ), and her parents encouraged her to be an ...
Jul 26, 2019 · This time that awesomeness is Martha Coolidge. She is probably best known to '80s fans as the director of Valley Girl (1983) and Real Genius (1985). She was a trailblazer by becoming a female director of feature films at a time when that was almost unheard of. Not only did she help make those two '80s favorites, but she has gone on to an ...
Feb 1, 2024 · Feb. 1, 2024. Made nearly half a century ago and long hiding in plain sight, Martha Coolidge’s “Not a Pretty Picture” is at once an autobiographical documentary, a Pirandellian psychodrama ...
The first ever film major at the Rhode Island School of Design, the first female president of the Directors Guild of America, and the first to cast Nicolas Cage as a lead in a feature film, the legendary Martha Coolidge will now be joining the American Cinematheque in-person for another iconic first: our first retrospective devoted to her work ...
Dec 8, 2022 · “This film is based on incidents in the director’s life. The actress who plays Martha was also raped when she was in high school. Names and places have been changed.” Thus begins the harrowing and uniquely personal 1976 16mm feature Not a Pretty Picture by director Martha Coolidge (Valley Girl).
Martha Coolidge. Highest Rated: 100% Half the Picture (2018) Lowest Rated: 4% Material Girls (2006) Birthday: Aug 17, 1946. Birthplace: New Haven, Connecticut, USA. A proficient director of ...
Martha Coolidge (born August 17, 1946) is an American film director and former President of the Directors Guild of America. Description above from the Wikipedia article Martha Coolidge, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
