WOMEN MAKE FILM: A NEW ROAD MOVIE THROUGH CINEMA
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
Tonight is installment eight of Women Make Film, and the chapters of female film focus this week are “Home,” “Religion,” and “Work.” For films that are set in a convent, you hit all three topics at once. Among the films shown tonight after the documentary: At 5:45 a.m. ET Wednesday, the jaw-droppingly ambitious 1906 silent film by Alice Guy-Blaché, the 30-minute The Birth, The Life, and the Death of Christ (pictured), based on illustrated tableaux from a bible of hers. She was the first female filmmaker in cinema history, and this is just one side of her talent. She also made comedies, Westerns, and silent films about pregnant cravings and feminist fantasy.