Cinema Has Been My True Love: The Work and Times of Lynda Myles
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Cinema Has Been My True Love: The Work and Times of Lynda Myles

DirectorMark Cousins

2023
72 min
Documentary

In Mark Cousins’ meditative documentary, Lynda Myles, an influential connoisseur of cinema, reflects on her adventures in the film culture she helped establish. From 1973 to 1980, as the first female director of any festival, Myles transformed the Edinburgh Film Festival into a vibrant, iconoclastic mecca of discovery, championing the work of overlooked auteurs including Hitchcock, Sirk and Sam Fuller.

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