ELLE Flashback: 1989

Even before she became Oscar's reigning queen, director Kathryn Bigelow, then 36, was making a name for herself as a woman helming tough-guy pictures. Her first two features, The Loveless and Near Dark, tackled bikers and vampires, respectively, and her third, the then soon-to-be-released Blue Steel was no less rough and tumble, featuring Jamie Lee Curtis as the cop girlfriend of a rich and sudden psychotic killer played by Ron Silver. What, back then, did Bigelow feel her unorthodox film choices had in common? "I have a hard time realizing there's a category for what I'm doing—directing—because I still feel like I'm making something and film just happens to be the means." (September)

By Johanna Cox March 18, 2010
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