Women Aren’t Funny, is a season celebrating 13 films directed & written by women from the 1940s to today. Explore the season and book tickets: https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/season/women-arent-funny/

The Passionate Stranger is a highly satirical takedown of romantic novel tropes – so formally experimental that it feels decades ahead of its time. Muriel Box is Britain’s most prolific female director but is often overlooked. Box directed 13 feature films in the 1950s and early 60s and was the first woman to win an Oscar for best original screenplay.

Melanie Williams is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, and she is currently working on a monograph on the filmmaker Muriel Box, to be published by BFI Bloomsbury.

Lawrence Napper was senior researcher on UEA’s British Cinema History Research Project from 2001-2005, and is currently a full time lecturer at King’s College London.

Recorded on 9th June 2024 at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ