Interview: Martha Coolidge on 'Not a Pretty Picture'
The filmmaker discusses the creation, importance, and new restoration of her ahead-of-its-time 1976 feminist documentary.
Before breaking out in Hollywood and directing the ‘80s teen comedies Valley Girl and Real Genius and the Oscar-nominated drama Rambling Rose, Martha Coolidge was a documentary filmmaker in the 1970s. In a way, her transition piece was Not a Pretty Picture, a 1976 feature that combines dramatic scenes with intervie…
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