Alice Guy-Blaché, the director of nearly 1,000 early films, created what may be the world's first narrative movie. Alice Guy-Blaché in 1912. Courtesy of Zeitgeist Films/Kino Lorber. A lost piece of ...

You’ve likely heard of the Lumiere Brothers, Georges Melies, and D.W. Griffith … but how about Alice Guy? A compelling case can be made that Guy was the first director of a narrative (fiction) film, ...

The fragility and fallibility of history is on display in the illuminating documentary “Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché,” directed by Pamela B. Green. Early in the film, Green asks a ...

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When title sequence director Pamela B. Green first came upon the story of Alice Guy-Blaché, she was in disbelief that the 19th-century filmmaking pioneer was so little known, and was inspired to make ...

To that long, long list of women whose achievements have been buried beneath dark mountains of sexist history add the name Alice Guy. Thanks, at least in part, to Alice Guy we have The Avengers. And ...

Forgotten silent filmmaker Guy-Blaché takes center stage in Be Natural, while Live in Copenhagen spotlights more than a dozen songs written and performed by '60s singing satirist Lehrer. This is FRESH ...

Studying the dawn of the movies without including a mention of French pioneer Alice Guy-Blaché would be as egregious as writing about the Ninth Symphony without mentioning Ludwig van Beethoven.

Her name was Alice Guy-Blache, and you’ve probably never heard of her. That’s understandable. Her heyday was a century ago. She was French and spent only a few years in the United States. Her work – ...

EXCLUSIVE: The filmmakers behind acclaimed Cannes 2018 documentary Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché are re-teaming on a narrative biopic about their subject, the little-known but ...

When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By A.O. Scott At the beginning of Pamela B. Green’s lively and informative new ...