Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021

Joanna Hogg first had the instinct to make a film about her then-unfolding relationship to her heroin-addicted first love — a traumatic and formative time that coincided with her coming-of-age as a filmmaker — in 1979.

Back then, she didn't feel capable of tackling something so ambitious...

Sunday, Jul. 11, 2021

Joanna Hogg is sitting on a hotel balcony overlooking the Mediterranean, but what she'd really like to be doing is swimming in it. 

The night before, Hogg premiered her film "The Souvenir Part II" at the Cannes Film Festival. Sequels may be a regular part of summer, but they rarely make...

Wednesday, May. 15, 2019

It was only weeks before production was starting on "The Souvenir," the story goes, and British director Joanna Hogg and her friend, actress Tilda Swinton, still didn't have a lead actress.

The role of Julie, an affluent, twentysomething film student in 1980s London, was loosely based on...

Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019

The voice of the female filmmaker was louder than ever at this year's Berlin Film Festival, with seven out of the 16 films in the competition section helmed by women, and female directors from all corners of the globe featured prominently at the festival.

The number of women-directed...

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