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Women-Directed Film Poll! (Patreon)

Published:
2025-04-28 15:00:14
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2026-06
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Women-Directed Film Poll!

  • Bridget Jones' Diary (2001) dir. Sharon Maguire 35
  • Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) dir. Marielle Heller 12
  • Clueless (1995) dir. Amy Heckerling* 121
  • Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) dir. Susan Seidelman 29
  • Enough Said (2013) dir. Nicole Holofcener 10
  • Frida (2002) dir. Julie Taymor 23
  • Girlfriends (1978) dir. Claudia Weill 8
  • Lady Bird (2017) dir. Greta Gerwig 54
  • Little Women (1994) dir. Gillian Armstrong 28
  • Marie Antoinette (2006) dir. Sofia Coppola* 27
  • Mikey and Nicky (1976) dir. Elaine May 12
  • The Substance (2024) dir. Coralie Fargeat 96
  • Sleepless in Seattle (1993) dir. Nora Ephron 88
  • Valley Girl (1983) dir. Martha Coolidge 30
  • 2025-04-28
  • —2025-05-28
  • 573 votes
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Help pick the Women-Directed movie we will react to!

Please feel free to suggest other options in the comments for future polls!

*NOTE: I have seen Clueless so this would only be Sam's first time watching! Sam has seen Marie Antoinette, so this would only be my first time watching!

Comments

Matthew Maxon

Little Women is one my favorite movies. I watch it whenever I see it playing.

Tinker

If Sleepless in Seattle wins then please do the movie mentioned in a memorable scene: Affair to Remember. Similar plot, but a favorite Classic!!!.❤️❤️

Shehab Dawoud

Enough Said is one I really hope a reactor will do one day, even if I don’t really like that genre. Gandolfini shows just how amazing an actor with range he is. One of his best.

Paul Cox

I'm so happy to see this theme that I almost don't care what wins (as long as it isn't Valley Girl lol)

Chris H.

I'm afraid that Greta Gerwig's 2019 Little Women has kind of obsoleted all previous filmed versions (and published 1-volume literary versions) going back to Louisa May Alcott's originally as-intended vision that her publisher forced her to re-edit.

Florian Meier

Sleepless in Seattle !!!! But you have to watch "A Fatal Attraction" first to understand Tom Hanks in that scene ;)

Henry Graham

As you may guess from my name/profile picture, I would recommend A New Leaf as an introduction to Elaine May. Mikey & Nicky is great, but it's her least comedic and least representative film in many ways. This is a depressingly anglophone list and I would at minimum suggest that either Beau Travail or 35 Shots of Rum by Claire Denis are masterpieces that should be considered alongside these films.

Paul Cox

Mira Nair would be another good option for Mississippi Masala and Monsoon Wedding. Ida Lupino from the golden age would be an interesting choice as well, simply because steadily working women directors were such an anomaly at the time.

Smooticus

A lot of good choices here. I had to give a vote to Mikey and Nicky. Elaine May was known more for comedies, but this little gem is a gritty film and great character study of two friends played by greats Peter Faulk and John Cassavetes (one of the godfathers of American independent cinema). I was surprised when I learned a few years ago May directed it. I had always been under the assumption Cassavetes was the director

Henry Graham

Ida Lupino's films are really good. The BFI did a season a few years ago and I was struck by the intelligence and sensitivity of her direction, particularly in a film like Outrage, her 1950 film about rape, which is really remarkable.

EdmanXERO

Clueless for sure!

John Fitzpatrick

Just saw Desperately Seeking Susan at Ebertfest last week. Rosanna Arquette and Susan Seidelman got up and danced on the stage during the closing credits.

John Fitzpatrick

You beat me to A New Leaf. Is it even out on DVD?

Paul Cox

My favorite throwaway joke from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is from S1 when Susie says she walked in on Mike Nichols and Elaine May in the bathroom: "They even fuck funny!"

Chris Bruneau

Clueless is sooo much, fun, my wife and her girlfriends have literally seen it a dozen times!

Henry Graham

Not sure what the situation is in the US/CA but I have a UK blu-ray version.

Marcus Cato

So many greats. If you ever watch Real Genius, you could honor Martha Coolidge and Val Kilmer at the same time.

Anthony Donato

Lost in Translation (2003). Sofia Coppola director, starring Bill Murray, and Scarlett Johansson.

Boris-N

Let's not forget the most infamous of all them female film directors: Leni Riefenstahl

Paul Cox

Yeah, I wish that had been the Coolidge film on this poll.

Antmovies

I hate THE SUBSTANCE. I went with DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN. The best film directed by a woman is called AWAKENINGS. Directed by Penny Marshall it has what I consider to be Robert De Niro's best performance. But, you know, do one of these 😪

Kerplang

You Were Never Really Here 2017 film directed by Lynne Ramsay

Julian San

Write in vote: The Piano (1993) directed by Jane Campion. Unless you’ve already seen it, of course.

James Rogers

What??? No love for Doris Wishman?

Claudia

Marie Antoinette!! i'd love for that to win *sigh*

mikethemotormouth

We don't have to forget her but we also don't have to honor her

Nick of Time

I was like .. why isn't A League of Their Own not on this list? Oh .. they've seen it. 😂

Xander S

Oh most of what I’m thinking of for a write-in are queer movies. But there’s also Punisher: War Zone.

Birdie Num Num

Guess Tyler is both pleased and disappointed by this poll(no A New Leaf!). But the result, as is often this case, was never in doubt, I figured Clueless would be running away with this. And looks like some are giving this poll a pass, the adventure poll has a hundred more total votes than this poll.

Analytical Guy

I'll cast a write-in vote for Promising Young Woman.

Paul Cox

I like Clueless well enough, and I'm sure Heckerling is still living comfortably from its success, but it's the least "this film obviously had a female director" film here. Too bad imo.

Mark Kelso

So, y'all have already done The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty? I just automatically went scrolling to choose the movie that was the first to win Best Director for a woman, and it's not here. Already done?

Paul Cox

ZDT has a full watch-along (but no YT edit yet) from earlier this month, and THL just won last month's war film poll, so a reaction to that is coming soon.

Birdie Num Num

Have you seen The Ascent yet? I think I recommended that to you a while back when female directors were being talked about in the comments.

Paul Cox

It's burning a hole in my "I'll watch it soon" pocket lol

Paul Cox

Obvs my favorite female-directed film of the last decade or so is Sweet Bean, which I've nominated for the spin wheel a couple times and recently persuaded Birdie to watch. I've only seen a couple other Naomi Kawase films besides that one, but her approach is uniquely gentle and plain letting you kinda forget you're actually watching a movie.

Birdie Num Num

Denis is a master of cinema, but it is reasonable to assume many here have not seen any of her films. Or Lupino. Reacting channels have always been dominated by commercial American films, esp those from 80s/90s/early 00s - movies that many here grew up on. I've moved on from suggesting movies that I think are great to movies I like and that a reasonable amount of patrons have probably seen. Or at least I try to. The spin wheel is the place for more personal favorites.

Mark Kelso

Thank you so much, Paul!

Carol Rocha

Fingers crossed for Sleepless in Seattle & Nora Ephron!!

Henry Graham

Yeah, I know. I'll keep suggesting films that I think are great despite knowing they don't stand a snowball's chance in hell of getting viewed. My biggest frustration with the whole reaction business is the reliance on polls, which only ever narrows to the most popular and familiar. I'd prefer things a little more curated. One reactor I follow is working through the AFI Top 100 list, which are still popular films, but it leads her to watch things like Sunrise, The Last Picture Show or Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, which are unlikely to win polls.

Birdie Num Num

which reactor is this? last picture show is one of my favorites. I think hold down a mentioned that she reacted to it during her reaction to the exorcist, but never put it on youtube. and I don't want to subscribe to her patreon to see it.

Henry Graham

Yeah, it's Hold Down A. I did watch her Last Picture Show reaction. I'm not sure what decides which films get YouTube edits or not.

Birdie Num Num

wow, so she's reacted to Sunrise? I never would have guessed that based on her channel(it seems very mainstream to me). guess she has a lot more on patreon than youtube. but I'm generally not interested in full length reactions.

Henry Graham

Yeah, she recently did Chaplin's Modern Times too. She does regular wheel spin picks as well. I think she strikes a really good balance across her channel.

Donna Castellano

Wow. My vote choices on both polls are winning so far. I'll be able to watch some movies with the Schmitts again. 👏👏

Boris-N

Strange Days (1995), by Kathryn Bigelow

Tyler Foster

No, I'm only pleased. Just happy that the idea was recognized at all! I disagree about Clueless being harder to notice. The movie doesn't underestimate Cher, even when she might not deserve the benefit of the doubt, something that many young women just like Cher are probably familiar with and relate to -- and I think there are parallels to the way Cher is underestimated in the film to the way Clueless might be underestimated as an achievement. A witty teen comedy is still *a good movie*, and I don't think a lesser class of good movie, either.

Tyler Foster

@John Fitzpatrick - it's technically out-of-print now, but Olive Films' 2017 US Signature Series Blu-ray of A New Leaf has a beautiful 4K-remastered transfer, two interviews (one with the assistant editor, one with Clueless' Amy Heckerling), a video essay, and a commentary, plus a booklet. Luckily, it still seems to be going for about what it went when it was in print, which is $28.

CherryPi

Winter's Bone by Debra Granik, The Piano by Jane Campion, Monster by Patty Jenkins, Girlfight by Karyn Kusama, Boys don't cry by Kimberly Peirce, Promising Young Woman by Emerald Fennell. Aah, so many more :)

Tyler Foster

yes please to The Piano and Girlfight