ALICE GUY-BLACHÉ, QUEEN OF THE PIONEERS

A director i have a soft spot for. Gilbert Adair the distinguished writer on cinema was pretty scathing of female directors in his book Flickers but made an exception of Alice Guy- and rightly, for her films are loaded with wit, charm, magic and an explorer’s curiosity and vision. She made hundreds of films in all, many not listed on imdb, within a range of genres- social documents, historical and religious dramas, comedies, adventures, romance….

Alice Guy-Blaché (July 1, 1873 – March 24, 1968) was a French pioneer filmmaker who was the first female director in the motion picture industry and is considered to be one of the...