Sylvie
@slywit
Half 🇺🇸, half 🇫🇷, all-around opinionated. Editor currently living in San Francisco. Hitchcocko-Hawksienne. National parkologist. Opera aficionada. Supporting women directors is my jam. Blog: slywit.wordpress.com
I guess I know what my next #DirectedByWomen selection is going to be, the aptly titled MY BRILLIANT CAREER. I've been meaning to watch this for ages. Sad to say now is the time. #RIP Sam Neill
What do you do when it's #FemaleFilmmakerFriday but you have a #WilliamWyler challenge going on? WUTHERING HEIGHTS double feature, baby! Here's hoping I like Andrea Arnold's version better than Wyler's. (It's a low bar.) #DirectedByWomen #52FilmsByWomen #38 #Filmsky 📽️
For no other reason than the fact I am doing a William Wyler challenge this month, here's one of my favorite GIFs from his filmography. You know, apropos of nothing.
Well, new-to-me Wylers are two for two. I really liked both COUNSELLOR AT LAW (1933) and THE GOOD FAIRY (1935). #Filmsky #WilliamWyler 📽️🎞️🎬
Since I'm undertaking a #WilliamWyler challenge elsewhere, here are my (current) rankings of the fifteen Wylers I've scored and rated on Letterboxd in the last ten years. I'll be re-scoring these and rating fifteen more throughout July. What are your faves? #Filmsky📽️🎞️🎬
when one of your neighbors voluntarily cedes one of the two washers even though she has more laundry to do
Top 10 new-to-me watches in June: PERSEPOLIS (2007) NO OTHER CHOICE (2025) DISCLOSURE DAY (2026) CHICKEN WITH PLUMS (2011) SEND HELP (2026) PAULINE À LA PLAGE (1983) THE HOUSEMAID (2025)* MISS JUNETEENTH (2020)* READY OR NOT (2019)* THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE (1956)* #Filmsky 📽️ 🎞️🎬 *ex aequo
PSA: Some essential #DirectedByWomen films (along with the rest of their respective collections) are leaving the Criterion Channel on 7/31. You know what to do. WORKING GIRLS (Arzner, 1931) HESTER STREET (Micklin Silver, 1975) DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (Dash, 1991) WUTHERING HEIGHTS (Arnold, 2011)
Tonight's #FemaleFilmmakerFriday selection is the rare rewatch. Since I'm finally starting in on the otherwise new-to-me Criterion Nordic Noir collection, which expires at the end of the month, I'm rewatching DEATH IS A CARESS (1949) by Edith Carlmar. #52FilmsByWomen #37 #Filmsky 📽️🎞️🎬
A reminder for whomever needs it: The Tea Party was an astroturf campaign not a grassroots movement.
Name a film with a title that is a full sentence. In both languages no less! L'ASSASSIN HABITE AU... 21 THE MURDERER LIVES AT NUMBER 21