Nora Ephron
The writer and director Nora Ephron, who died yesterday at age seventy-one, was an icon in an industry dominated by men. Earlier this year, for the Criterion release of Lena Dunham’s Tiny Furniture, Ephron and Dunham sat down for a warm and wide-ranging conversation. One of the things they touched on, as shown in the clip below, was Ephron’s thoughts about being a female filmmaker in America.