Mary Bronstein
October 2025
The writer and director selects a pair of feminist films by Dorothy Arzner, shares why Chantal Akerman and David Lynch are her filmmaking idols, and praises how Eric Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales portray complex dynamics between women and men.
8 picks
Picks (8)
Dance, Girl, Dance
Dorothy Arzner
1940 • United States • 1h 30m
Unavailable
Merrily We Go to Hell
Dorothy Arzner
1932 • United States • 1h 23m
Unavailable
Frownland
Ronald Bronstein
2007 • United States • 1h 47m
Chantal Akerman Masterpieces, 1968–1978
Box Set
Inland Empire
David Lynch
2006 • United States • 3h
This Is Spinal Tap
Rob Reiner
1984 • United States • 1h 22m
Unavailable
Six Moral Tales
Box Set
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Stanley Kramer
1963 • United States • 3h 12m
Unavailable