Rough Night 2017
Aniello's studio debut, and the peg for Zoladz's Ringer profile.
The Big Picture · Discussion · Interview
Female-Powered Comedy With ‘Rough Night’ Creators Lucia Aniello and Paul W. Downs | The Big Picture (Ep. 16)
June 16, 2017/ 52 min/ Sean Fennessey
Sean Fennessey talks to Ringer writer Lindsay Zoladz about profiling director Lucia Aniello, then sits down with Aniello and Paul W. Downs on writing Rough Night, the first R-rated studio comedy directed by a woman since 1998.
10 films across 2 segments.
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Profiling Lucia Aniellowith Lindsay Zoladz
Half Baked 1998
Tamra Davis directed it, the last R-rated studio comedy by a woman before Rough Night and an influence Aniello names.
CB4 1993
Also Tamra Davis, who came up cutting music videos.
The Decline of Western Civilization 1981
Penelope Spheeris's punk-underground documentary; Aniello cites her as a role model.
Wayne's World 1992
Spheeris's jump from documentaries to a big studio comedy.
Pitch Perfect 2 2015
Elizabeth Banks-directed and lucrative, but pitched at a PG-13 audience, the line Aniello wanted to cross.
Sisters 2015
Fey and Poehler's feature; Zoladz reads it as a throwback to wanting the big studio vehicle.
The Rough Night conversation
Lucia Aniello & Paul W. Downs on
Rough Night 2017
Bachelorette weekend, an accidentally dead stripper. Written on spec in the Obama era, released under Trump barely changed.
Lucia Aniello & Paul W. Downs on
The Hangover 2009
One of the male-centric comparisons the pair keep getting; they'd rather people just watch the movie.
Lucia Aniello & Paul W. Downs on
Bridesmaids 2011
Fennessey's example of the same outsized expectation that lands on any comedy by women.
Not films filtered out: TV, games, ads
TV / web series Broad CityTime Traveling BongSaturday Night Live
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