Actor Michele Manenti plays the teenage Martha, and we see her flirting and cruising with some boys in a car before she’s brought to the apartment. These scenes are improvised, with Coolidge ...

Before she became known as one of the best comedy directors of her generation for the now classic "Valley Girl" and "Real Genius," director Martha Coolidge made her feature debut with the ...

Anthology Film Archives is screening a new 4K restoration of Martha Coolidge’s 1976 docudrama about date rape. By J. Hoberman Made nearly half a century ago and long hiding in plain sight ...

When director Martha Coolidge made the offbeat comedy-drama Rambling Rose, the production company had a lot of questions about how she was going to handle a key scene with a 14-year-old boy in bed ...

The director of "Valley Girl," "Real Genius," and "Rambling Rose" talks about her first film, now available in a new restoration from Criterion. Like Coolidge’s early comedies and her Academy ...