Episode #447: 'Spacewoman' with Kevin Smokler
A new documentary takes a close look at an American space pioneer who ought to be a household name.
Maximum Film! · Kevin Avery, Drea Clark, Alonso Duralde, Marissa Flaxbart, Gabe Mara, Kevin Smokler
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Show 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
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With
Kevin Avery
Drea Clark
Alonso Duralde
Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
Sr. Producer Laura Swisher