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AGGIELIFE Page 4 THE BATTALION Wednesday. Record number of women submit films for Sundance PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Heather Graham gets to karate-kick her male co-star across a room. Director Mary Harron pulls the strings on a male psychopath running loose with a chain saw. Gold en Globe winner Janet McTeer fights an academ ic glass ceiling in the early 1900s. Better days are here for female filmmakers, at least on the independent movie circuit. The line up of 113 feature films at the Sundance Film Fes tival through next weekend includes a record 29 pictures directed by women. “I’m thrilled at what’s happening on a person al basis as a woman and as a fan of these films,” said Liz Manne, who co-founded film distributor Fine Line Features and now is executive vice pres ident of programming and marketing for the Sun dance channel. “The originality we’re seeing from these women is remarkable.” “Anyone who thinks these are a bunch of chick flicks is really making a mistake,” festival co-di rector Geoffrey Gilmore said. Among the field: — American Psycho, Harron’s brutish, bloody adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ novel about a 1980s Wall Streeter whose hobby is serial murder by ax, pistol, chain saw or nail gun. — Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides, a dark comic tale of a group of spirited sisters in a re pressive family. The director is the daughter of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. — Gurinder Chadha’s What's Cooking?, a skillfully layered love song to Los Angeles told through the tur moil of four ethnically diverse families as they prepare for Thanksgiving. The movie was the pre miere feature for the festival’s opening night last week. — Maggie Green- wald’s Songcatcher, starring McTeer, who “It's great just to see the excitement among all these women who made movies and got them here." “If you could open a dictionary to the word ’di rector’ 40 years ago and it had a picture, you would probably see some white guy with a beret and boots,” said Lisa Krueger, director of Com mitted, which stars Graham as a jilted wife on a bold quest to stitch her — Valerie Brieman director of Love and Sex life back together. “Now the picture looks like 500 different people, men and women.” Krueger was hon ored at the Sundance Film Festival over the weekend by Women in Film, which called her a pioneer for Commit ted and her previous Sundance feature. to finish her Sundanc screwball comedy siarr “It’s great just to sec these women who ma here," Breiman said. “We’re all just kind I hope it’s not just a fad. ;ntry, Lou lj Famke Ji de L l M 111 I movies d Sex* a :n* mong all tot them ‘Millonaire’ lea Nielsens again' to continue t< Financial a director w il and graduate to costlier pr Penny Marsh make jumping i ope worn© and more lately diet ,p and down, t w ill be able NEW YORK (AP) —Thiss monotonous: "Who Wants Millionaire” was the most* TV show last week. And the most popular. And the thsc The game show gave to 111 M: ikikc n enden other weekly Nielsen MfMontgomc search victory, and made>ld headed II or Mi eder. !1( It s very ries about vvi doesn’t yiew Zeinabu irem itonunatcly lablc,” said won a Golden Globe Sunday for Tumbleweeds, as a musicologist in 1907 who embarks on indepen dent research in Appalachia after she is denied a promotion in male-centered academia. Karyn Kusama’s Girlfight, about a high school senior who bucks her father and begins rig orous training as an amateur boxer. Manny and Lo. Even with film schools turning out more fe male graduates and more women moving into stu dio management, female directors say they gen erally have a harder time than their male counterparts finding money to make their nun ies. Valerie Breiman said it took almost six years opef tut gallon ami n two tinic h. She said iclpto land icr I cm ale 4 t Hhcrw i vc. 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