CineMasters

Screenwriter, author, playwright and legendary wit, Anita Loos cut a glamorous swathe through Golden Era Hollywood, forging a glittering career as one of the most prolific writers in the studio system. After getting her break writing intertitles for DW Griffith, Loos made a seamless transition from silent era success into talkies, soaring to international fame along the way with her bestselling novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Renowned for her brilliant one-liners and mastery of double-entendre, Loos found herself in high demand during the height of the Hays Code. Her signature themes of money, gender and power remain fiercely resonant, but it is perhaps her irresistible (anti)-heroines who speak most directly to modern audiences; keenly drawn, force of nature women who ruthlessly harness their sexuality and smarts to make their way in a man’s world.

Season curated by Invisible Women, bringing women filmmakers from archives to screens.