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Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018)★ 7.7/10

Not Rated · US · 103 min · May 11, 2018

  • Documentary
  • History
  • Biography

Directed by: Pamela B. Green

Written by: Pamela B. Green, Joan Simon

Pamela B. Green's energetic film about pioneer filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché is both a tribute and a detective story, tracing the circumstances by which this extraordinary artist faded from memory and the path toward her reclamation.

Directed by

Pamela B. Green

Written by

Pamela B. GreenJoan Simon

Cast & crew

Jodie FosterNarrator (voice)Alice GuySelf (archiveFootage)Pamela B. GreenSelfCatherine HardwickeSelfLorenzo di BonaventuraSelfHoward CohenSelfPatty JenkinsSelfGale Anne HurdSelfJon M. ChuSelfMark RomanekSelfLake BellSelfAva DuVernaySelfJulie DelpySelfPeter BogdanovichSelfPeter FarrellySelfJulie TaymorSelfGeena DavisSelfStephanie AllainSelfClaire ClouzotSelfMarc WanamakerSelfDrake StutesmanSelfKevin BrownlowSelfJane GainesSelfAgnès VardaSelfJon WilkmanSelfJoan SimonSelfGigi PritzkerSelfTatiana Page-ReloSelfPatricia RiggenSelfBob ChanningSelf - widower of Alice's granddaughterAnthony SlideSelfSteve WilkinsSelfValerie SteeleSelfCecile StarrSelfMaxine HaleffSelf - filmmakerTacita DeanSelfDino EverettSelf - film archivistHenry JenkinsSelf - USC professorTom GunningSelf - film historain (voice)Vanessa SchwartzSelfJean-Michel FrodonSelfSimone GuySelf (archiveFootage)David C. CrosthwaitSelfSophie SaudraisPR or the Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie)Alain WilliamsSelf - film historianJohn BaileySelfKevin MacdonaldSelfAndy SambergSelfNeil HuntSelfGlenn MyrentSelf film historian and cyber cadreurWalter MurchSelfLiz GoldwynSelfBrian R. JacobsonSelf - Author, Assistant Professor of Film StudiesDeborah NadoolmanSelfMichel HazanaviciusSelfNaum KleimanSelf - film historian and director of the Eisenstein CenterRoland-François LackSelfYves GaumontSelf - Léon Gaumont's grandsonChloe Page-ReloSelfJudith F. DolkartSelf - authorMark StetsonSelfMarjane SatrapiSelfMarc AbrahamSelfDiablo CodySelfSteve RossSelf - authorAlison McMahanSelfEvan Rachel WoodSelfCarey WilliamsSelf - owner of a 1908 Pathé cameraRichard KoszarskiSelf - professor at Rutgers UniversityTom MeyersSelfCari BeauchampSelfJackie CasnerSelf - descendant of Charles PinTerilyn A. ShropshireSelf - editorClaire WickellSelf - descendant of Charles PinCathy OsburgSelf - descendant of Charles PinBen KingsleySelfAnne FletcherSelfPeter DecherneySelfAnne FontaineSelfKathleen TurnerSelfPierre-William GlennSelfMichelle SeymourSelfDamien BachySelf - film historianFloria SigismondiSelfSerge BrombergSelfMurray GlassSelf - film collectorGary MairsSelf - filmmakerJan-Christopher HorakSelfChristophe DupinSelf - senior administrator of FIAFGillian ArmstrongSelfHenri LangloisSelf - founder and head of Cinémathèque française) (archiveFootage)Janeane GarofaloSelfJeff AikmanSelf - film collectorKim TomadjoglouSelf - curator of the Library of CongressMartin ScorseseSelf (archiveFootage)Robert DassanowskySelfChris KattanSelfHoratio SanzSelfPeter BillingsleySelfJames BobinSelfCharles ChaplinSelf (archiveFootage)Bobby CohenSelfJulie CormanSelfFrederik Du ChauSelfDouglas FairbanksSelf (archiveFootage)Elsie FisherSelfD.W. GriffithSelf (archiveFootage)Rob HaworthSelfCheryl HinesSelfWayne KramerSelfAnastasia MasaroSelfVadim PerelmanSelfMary PickfordSelf (archiveFootage)Pierre RissientSelfJulie Anne RobinsonSelfGeorges SadoulSelf - film critic and historian (archiveFootage)Cathy SchulmanSelfKevin StittSelfLoretta WeinbergSelfSusan ConstantineSelf (uncredited)Bryony DixonSelf (uncredited)Marquise LepageSelf (uncredited)Anand TuckerSelf (uncredited)