Top Tens

After Roy mentioned the excellent Senses of Cinema site, I thought I would just throw in this out of interest. It's quite old now, but shows an attempt to compile a top ten of women's films and women directors. It uses contributions from a number of random contributors.

The problem of women being excluded from various 'canons' of work has been a thorny issue for a long time. I'm not convinced by the idea of trying to create an alternative version, though.

I think it is quite worthy in trying to raise the profile of women's work, but does highlight (as it says) the problem that the work is so disparate, there's not a lot of merit in trying to relate it all together or compare it. I suppose it's what Hollywood top tens have been doing to male directors for decades -- so some equality there? http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/top_tens/womens.html