Sentences with phrase «british women in film»

The decision to wear black was orchestrated by powerful British women in film and yesterday, a group of actresses from the UK and Ireland, including Saoirse Ronan, who pledged their support for the new UK Justice and Equality Fund in an open letter published in The Observer.

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One movie fitting that description is the upcoming film Suffragette, which tells the story of the British women's suffrage movement in the early 1900's.

In this charming film, British actress Claire Bloom takes an insightful look at the art of Shakespearean acting with rich portrayals of many of Shakespeare's most memorable women including Portia, Rosalind, Imogen and Juliet.

The British Irons has an extraordinary legacy of film, television, and theatre performances including: THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT»S WOMAN, in which he starred opposite Meryl Streep; THE MISSION; and David Cronenberg's DEAD RINGERS.

After appearing in a number of short films, Turner made the move to television by landing the lead role in the 2012 British miniseries Leaving, playing a young man caught in a relationship with a married woman nearly twice his age.

During this 1 - on - 1 phone interview with Collider, actress and filmmaker Heather Graham talked about wanting to make a movie celebrating women and friendship, the biggest challenges in getting this film going, having her voice heard, as a female filmmaker, what she most enjoyed about playing Honey, putting together this cast, funny moments on set, what she enjoyed about the experience of directing, her hope to do it again, juggling three different writing projects, and doing the British TV series Bliss, from David Cross.

Charles Gant: British - Indian retirement film draws ill - served older audience, but pales against popularity of The Woman in Black

«Toast» enjoys what is likely the best comic performance of veteran British actress Helena Bonham Carter in the role of Joan Potter, a cleaning woman who becomes the second wife of Nigel's dad, played by Ken Stott, and stepmother of nine - year old Slater who morphs suddenly about two - thirds into the film as the older Nigel Slater, played by Freddie Highmore.

The first feature film to tell the story of the ordinary British women at the turn of the last century who risked everything in the fight for equality and the right to vote.

Director Sarah Gavron returns to the Festival for a third time with a film that tells the story of the ordinary British women at the turn of the last century who risked everything in the fight for equality and the right to vote.

It was one of those rare times when a major film studio — United Artists, in this case — allowed him to make pretty much anything he wanted, even a sophisticated and very personal British movie about an openly gay Jewish doctor sharing his lover with a woman.

Hugh Dancy and Maggie Gyllenhaal star in «Hysteria» (Sony), a wry look at the invention of the vibrator (yes, * that * kind of vibrator)(Blu - ray, DVD, On Demand and at Redbox) and Ethan Hawke and Kristin Scott Thomas are in the psychological thriller «The Woman in the Fifth» (New Video), a British film in Paris (DVD only).

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Back in February, the revered British filmmaker premiered his new Emily Dickinson biopic, A Quiet Passion, at the Berlin Film Festival, and in May, his 2015 film Sunset Song — a portrait of an early twentieth - century Scottish woman named Chris — came to the U.S. (While in New York for Sunset Song, Davies graciously stopped by to regale us with tales of his past.)

Other British films screening at the festival include Nicholas Hytner's adaptation of Alan Bennett's hit play The Lady in the Van, with Maggie Smith reprising her much - lauded performance as eccentric homeless woman who lived in Bennett's drive for 15 years.

Felicity Jones has been one of the most successful British actors to break Hollywood in the past five years, with films such as CEMETARY JUNCTION, LIKE CRAZY and THE INVISIBLE WOMAN all displaying the gorgeous star's incredible acting abilities.

Starring Carey Mulligan, the film tells the story of the working - class British women who, inspired by the suffragette leader, Emmeline Pankhurst, took their fight for enfranchisement to the male establishment in Westminster.

THE LADYKILLERS (Grade: D): This Coen brothers remake of the classic 1955 British comedy — with Tom Hanks in the Alec Guinness role as the leader of a gang of crooks who plan a heist in the home of a dotty old woman (Irma P. Hall)-- not only misses all the wit and charm of the original, but it may stand as the clumsiest, crudest, least funny and most pandering of all their films.

Seeing that movie back - to - back with «Lady Bird,» if anything, only underscored the actress» versatility: Whereas Gerwig's film casts her as a 21st century American teenager eager to fall in love and shed her virginity, «On Chesil Beach» locks her into the role of Florence, a British woman who embodies the buttoned - down timidity of the stifling, pre-sexual-revolution 1960s.

The return of Polish - British director Pawel Pawlikowski, who made a splash with «The Last Resort» and «My Summer Of Love» before disappearing for the best part of a decade (he came back last year with little - seen Ethan Hawke thriller «The Woman In The Fifth «-RRB-, it's the first film that the director has shot and set in his native PolanIn The Fifth «-RRB-, it's the first film that the director has shot and set in his native Polanin his native Poland.

Her next film was the critically - acclaimed Belle starring Gugu Mbatha - Raw as Dido Elizabeth Belle, an illegitimate mixed - race daughter of an enslaved African woman and a British navy captain, who placed the girl with his uncle Lord Mansfield in late 18th - century London to be raised as a free lady.

Daniel Radcliffe in The Woman in Black, the first feature ghost story from the legendary British Hammer film studio

After criticism of last year's male - dominated shortlist, the Cannes film festival puts British director alongside three other women in running

While not as well - known perhaps as some of Roeg's earlier films — Performance (1970) Walkabout (1971), Don't Look Now (1973) and The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)-- Fashionista arguably recalls most immediately his comparatively underrated Bad Timing (1980), a film that pits passive - aggressive dickhead Alex (Art Garfunkel in one of the most brilliant performances of early»80s British cinema) against Theresa Russell's Milena, a woman living with mental health issues that he becomes sexually obsessed with.

(The effervescent British import Wright and actress / playwright Gurira, especially, feel like they could easily hold their own films; it's hard to remember the last time any females, let alone women of color, even came close to creating such fully formed roles in a cineplex tentpole.)

The story of a troubled British woman who goes to Japan in pursuit of a rare film clip from the 1937 Nanking massacre finds herself on the wrong side of the Japanese yazuka.