Episode #447: ‘Spacewoman’ with Kevin Smokler

Episode notes

We’re capping off a month at looking at different films directed by women with Hannah Berryman’s documentary, Spacewoman. Kevin Smokler, author of Breaking the Frame: Conversations with Women Filmmakers joins us to talk about this close look at the stellar career of astronaut Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot, and later command, a Space Shuttle mission.

What’s Good
Alonso – Calm for naps
Drea – getting a doctor’s appointment
Kevin S. – Memorizing Oscar winners as a sleep aid
Kevin A. – 3 hour Celebrity game

ITIDIC

• AI-Generated Val Kilmer Will Appear in Movie Kilmer Was to Shoot Before His Passing
• April Wolfe/Chloe Okuno Project Bad Hand Lands at Searchlight

Staff Picks
Alonso – Late Shift
Drea – Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
Kevin S. – Say Amen Somebody
Kevin A. – A Teacher

Directors Mentioned in C-Block:

• Patricia Cardoso
• Debra Granik
• Amy Heckerling
• Anna Boden
• Rose Troche 
• Donna Deitch
• Cheryl Dunye
• Joan Micklin Silver
• Lizzie Borden
• Wanuri Kihiyu
• Melanie Laurent
• Maggie Gyllenhaal
• Allison Anders
• Gillian Armstrong
• Celine Sciamma
• Lynn Shelton
• The Wachowskis
• Penny Marshall
• Martha Coolidge
• Vera Drew
• Jane Schoenbrun
• Alice Maio Mackay
• Mira Nair
• Věra Chytilová
• Ida Lupino
• Dorothy Arzner
• Alice Guy-Blaché
• Caitlin Adams
• Susan Seidelman
• Nia DaCosta
• Kathryn Bigelow
• Julia Hart
• Dee Rees
• Catherine Breillat
• Mary Harron
• Regina King
• Dyan Cannon