Bristling with a wild, untamed naturalism, the films of British auteur Andrea Arnold are bracing immersions into the worlds of the young, the restless, and the dispossessed. She established her bold vision with the wrenching, Academy Award–winning short WASP. Arnold’s interest in nonprofessional ...
Directed by Andrea Arnold • 2009 • United Kingdom
Starring Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender, Kierston Wareing
British director Andrea Arnold won the Cannes Jury Prize for the intense and invigorating FISH TANK, about a fifteen-year-old girl, Mia (electrifying newcomer Katie Jarvis), who lives wi...
Directed by Andrea Arnold • 2009 • United Kingdom
Starring Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender, Kierston Wareing
British director Andrea Arnold won the Cannes Jury Prize for the intense and invigorating FISH TANK, about a fifteen-year-old girl, Mia (electrifying newcomer Katie Jarvis), who lives wi...
These auditions for the pivotal role of Mia reveal the array of talent available to director Andrea Arnold during the casting of FISH TANK.
Themes of teenage rebellion and fraught family dynamics run through these early shorts by groundbreaking directors Sofia Coppola, Chantal Akerman, Agnès Varda, Jane Campion, and Andrea Arnold.
Directed by Mark Cousins • 2018 • United Kingdom
“Bodies”
Bodies in cinema can be enticing, athletic, or brutalized. Jane Fonda narrates this chapter about how some of the great directors—including Agnès Varda, Andrea Arnold, Marva Nabili, Pirjo Honkasalo, Márta Mészáros, and Wanda Jakubowska—ha...
Directed by Mark Cousins • 2018 • United Kingdom
“Believability”
It’s easy to spot, but not so easy to understand. Believability is about simple human stories, truth about life, real emotions, responding to the world. How do directors create a reality without it feeling fake? True stories can he...
Directed by Mark Cousins • 2018 • United Kingdom
“Staging”
Scene staging is an element of film form pointing clearly to cinema’s origin: theater. Kinuyo Tanaka uses staging in THE MOON HAS RISEN to shape the scene’s invisible geometry, accentuating the tension between characters. Maren Ade stage...
