We saw all kinds of mother - daughter relationships in 2017 — tender, fraught, hostile, sometimes all of the above — portrayed with a depth and complexity we don't get nearly enough of in relationships
between women in movies.
Not exact matches
The item got passed around from site to site, and a consensus began to form: The desperate not - quite - It Girl was Gretchen Mol, whose
movie roles were starting to dry up; the new target was Blake Lively, beginning to transition from TV to film; and
in the center of it all,
between two beautiful young
women whose careers he held
in the palm of his hands, was Harvey Weinstein.
we are happy here knowing our children grow up, eating big buckets of popcorn
in the
movies, drinking big sodas and believing a marriage should be
between a man and a
woman So What -.
In 1996, the
movie «Fire» highlights a forbidden relationship
between two married Indian
women.
One would need to avoid seeing a single poster for the
movie to not be able to figure where this is going: a sexual relationship
between Esti and Ronnie that happened way back when, which remains enough of an open secret
in the community that the sight of the two
women alone would start rumors.
His newest film sweeps the corners on the ages not covered by those two films, focusing on the unlikely friendship
between a college freshman (Lola Kirke) and a
woman hovering around 30 (Greta Gerwig)-- and
in doing so, Baumbach and Gerwig cook up what may be his flat - out funniest
movie of the past decade.
In a year where we had some pretty cool and unusual things happening in mainstream cinema (an animated «princess» movie where the most important relationship was between two sisters, a space thriller whose face was a middle - aged woman, a high - grossing action movie starring a young woman, a sci - fi blockbuster where 2/3 leads were NOT white men, a female buddy - cop movie), this just seems..
In a year where we had some pretty cool and unusual things happening
in mainstream cinema (an animated «princess» movie where the most important relationship was between two sisters, a space thriller whose face was a middle - aged woman, a high - grossing action movie starring a young woman, a sci - fi blockbuster where 2/3 leads were NOT white men, a female buddy - cop movie), this just seems..
in mainstream cinema (an animated «princess»
movie where the most important relationship was
between two sisters, a space thriller whose face was a middle - aged
woman, a high - grossing action
movie starring a young
woman, a sci - fi blockbuster where 2/3 leads were NOT white men, a female buddy - cop
movie), this just seems....
The
movie offers some surprises among its familiar trappings, and the vehicular stuntwork is top - notch — plus, you have to credit any
movie in which a playful car chase
between a man (Caine) and a
woman (Alexandra Stewart) can be categorized as foreplay.
With «Before Midnight,» writer - director Richard Linklater and actors Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy continue one of the most interesting projects
in film history: a
movie franchise based almost entirely on simple conversations
between a
woman and man.
It may have wallowed
in development hell for a while, but we reckon Wonder
Woman delivers «the hope - charged blast of purely likeable entertainment that superhero
movies might just need», and the chemistry bubbling
between Diana and Chris Pine's Steve Trevor is delicious.
A young
woman is caught
between life and death
in the
movie If I Stay.
The
movie follows the relationship
between two
women from widely different backgrounds, a 20 - year - old girl working at a department store and a rich wife trapped
in an unhappy marriage.
Kathryn Hahn turns
in a solid performance as the
woman in question, and Juno Temple shines as the sex worker she takes
in to her home, but while the
movie gets off to a strong start as the two ladies form their friendship, the latter half is so ugly
in its attempt to create conflict
between them that it leaves a bitter taste
in your mouth.
Apparently, Liam Neeson's favorite new thing that doesn't involve starring
in largely interchangeable action
movies is making public statements that somehow walk the line
between being supportive of
women in the entertainment industry while also being dismissive of the issues that he seems to support.
There is more chemistry and tenderness
between Penn and James Franco than
in hundreds of
movies about men and
women, which is a radical notion for an American film.
Inspired by the 1954 Universal Studios monster
movie classic Creature from the Black Lagoon, del Toro's take on the unique relationship between a mute woman (Sally Hawkins) and an amphibian man (Doug Jones) held captive in a research facility has dominated this awards season with a Best Picture win at the Critics» Choice Movie Awards, and a Best Director win for del Toro at the Golden Gl
movie classic Creature from the Black Lagoon, del Toro's take on the unique relationship
between a mute
woman (Sally Hawkins) and an amphibian man (Doug Jones) held captive
in a research facility has dominated this awards season with a Best Picture win at the Critics» Choice
Movie Awards, and a Best Director win for del Toro at the Golden Gl
Movie Awards, and a Best Director win for del Toro at the Golden Globes.
Award: The Assassin Least Sexy
Movie: 50 Shades of Grey (Runner - up: A LEGO Brickumentary) Best Tolkien Reference: The Martian Best Gag Involving a Hammer: Avengers: Age of Ultron Best Joke About Naming Your Fists «Cagney and Lacey»: Spy Best Celebrity Cameo: LeBron James, Trainwreck Best Imaginary Friend: Bing Bong, Inside Out Most Awkward Interplay
Between Real and Fictional Theme Parks: Tomorrowland (Runner - up: Jurassic World) Best Contact Lenses: Johnny Depp, Black Mass Best Eyeglasses: Sean Harris, Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation Best Glass Eye: Christian Bale, The Big Short Best Robot: Ava (Ex Machina) Worst Robot: Chappie (Chappie) The Cameron Crowe Award for a Soundtrack
in Search of a
Movie: Aloha Best Aerial Stunt: Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (Runner - up: Spectre) Worst Oven - Cleaning Method: The Visit Worst Misuse of a Juice Bottle: Sleeping with Other People Best
Movie About Journalism: Spotlight Worst
Movie About Journalism: Truth The Sudden Ubiquity Award: Domhnall Gleeson (Ex Machina, Brooklyn, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Revenant); Tom Hardy (Mad Max: Fury Road; Legend; The Revenant); Oscar Isaac (Ex Machina, Mojave, Star Wars: The Force Awakens) Best Dog - boy: Jack Bright, The Good Dinosaur Worst Dog - man: Channing Tatum, Jupiter Ascending Worst Implicit Historical Comparison: Moving the events of The Secret
in Their Eyes from Argentina's Dirty War to post-9 / 11 America Best Backward - Looking Reboot: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Worst Backward - Looking Reboot: Terminator Genisys Best Home
Movies: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Nicest Russian Spy: Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies Trends of the Year:
Women ruling comedy (Trainwreck, Spy); an overdue pushback against CGI (Mad Max: Fury Road, Star Wars: The Force Awakens); sneakily feminist themes
in summer sequels (Magic Mike XXL, Mad Max: Fury Road); spy spoofs (Spy, Kingsman: The Secret Service, The Man from U.N.C.L.E, the final third of Spectre)
At the film's recent press day, Mirren revealed her approach to the role, what it was like having the opportunity to improvise on set, acting opposite the renowned Puri and what the two share
in common, what she looks for
in a project, why the director is an important consideration, why she likes to alternate
between big
movies and smaller low budget films, her lifelong attraction to French culture, her latest film that she's currently shooting with director Simon Curtis entitled «
Woman in Gold,» and her upcoming biopic, «Trumbo,» with Bryan Cranston about blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.
A turgid adaptation of a French - language play by Peter Handke (the co-writer of some of Wenders» best
movies, including Wings Of Desire, though not that you can tell here), Anarjuez presents an impossibly vague dialogue
between a man and
woman in a garden outside of Paris.
Starring Michelle Williams, Matthias Schoenaerts, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Riley, Ruth Wilson, and Margot Robbie, directed by Saul Dibb («The Duchess «-RRB-, and scored by Alexandre Desplat (yep, this
movie is loaded with top - tier talent), the adaptation of Irene Nemirovsky «s novel details the love affair
between young French
woman Lucille and the German officer assigned to watch her
in Nazi - occupied France.
3D
Movie (Paul Sharits, 1975/2015) 88:88 (Isiah Medina, 2015) About 11 Minutes (Madison Brookshire, 2015) La academia de las musas (L'accademia delle muse / Academy of the Muses, José Luis Guerín, 2015) Actua 1 (Philippe Garrel, 1968/2015) Balikbayan # 1 Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III (Kidlat Tahimik, 2015) Bella e perduta (Lost and Beautiful, Pietro Marcello, 2015) Blackhat (Michael Mann, 2015) Boi Neon (Neon Bull, Gabriel Mascaro, 2015) Branco Sai, Preto Fica (White Out, Black
In, Adirley Queirós, 2014) La calle de la amargura (Bleak Street, Arturo Ripstein, 2015) Chevalier (Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2015) Color Correction (Margaret Honda, 2015) Comoara (The Treasure, Corneliu Porumboiu, 2015) Cosmos (Andrzej Żuławski, 2015) Engram of Returning (Daïchi Saïto, 2015) The Exquisite Corpus (Peter Tscherkassky, 2015) Field Niggas (Khalik Allah, 2014) The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson, 2015) Fort Buchanan (Benjamin Crotty, 2014) Garoto (Kid, Julio Bressane, 2015) Greetings to the Ancestors (Ben Russell, 2015) Happy Hour (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2015) Hua li shang ban zu (Office, Johnnie To, 2015) I, Dalio (Mark Rappaport, 2015) Iec Long (João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata, 2015)
In Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman, 2015) Invention (Mark Lewis, 2015) Ji - geum - eun - mat - go - geu - ddae - neun - teul - li - da (Right Now, Wrong Then, Hong Sang - soo, 2015) Juke: Passages from the Films of Spencer Williams (Thom Andersen, 2015) Losing Ground (Kathleen Collins, 1982/2015) Lost Landscapes of Los Angeles (Rick Prelinger, 2015) Mercuriales (Virgil Vernier, 2014) As Mil e uma Noites (Arabian Nights, Miguel Gomes, 2015) Minotauro (Minotaur, Nicolás Pereda, 2015) Na ri xia wu (Afternoon, Tsai Ming - liang, 2015) Navigator (Björn Kämmerer, 2015) Nie yin niang (The Assassin, Hou Hsiao - hsien, 2015) No Home
Movie (Chantal Akerman, 2015) Noite Sem Distância (Night Without Distance, Lois Patiño, 2015) L'Ombre des femmes (
In the Shadow of
Women, Philippe Garrel, 2015) Le paradis (Paradise, Alain Cavalier, 2014) Park Lanes (Kevin Jerome Everson, 2015) A Poem Is a Naked Person (Les Blank, 1974/2015) Queen of Earth (Alex Ross Perry, 2015) Rak ti Khon Kaen (Cemetery of Splendour, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2015) The Royal Road (Jenni Olson, 2015) Sangue del mio sangue (Blood of My Blood, Marco Bellochio, 2015) Secteur IX B (Sector IX B, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, 2015) Sin Dios ni Santa María (Neither God Nor Santa Maria, Samuel M. Delgado and Helena Girón, 2015) The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (Ben Rivers, 2015) Snakeskin (Daniel Hui, 2014) Something
Between Us (Jodie Mack, 2015) The Thoughts That Once We Had (Thom Andersen, 2015) Traces / Legacy (Scott Stark, 2015) Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse (My Golden Days, Arnaud Desplechin, 2015) The Two Sights (Katherine McInnis, 2015) Un etaj mai jos (One Floor Below, Radu Muntean, 2015) Visita ou Memórias e Confissões (Visit or Memories and Confessions, Manoel de Oliveira, 1982/2015) Western (Bill Ross and Turner Ross, 2015)
Falling somewhere on the quality scale
between The
Woman in Black and The
Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death (as far as similar
movies from this decade go), Winchester is not really worth paying the full ticket price to see it on the big screen.
In the first half of the movie, King organizes a boycott of a major tennis tournament over the disparity in prize money between men and women, and helps found the Virginia Slims Circuit, a series of tennis tournaments that eventually became the Women's Tennis Association, a principal organizing body of the spor
In the first half of the
movie, King organizes a boycott of a major tennis tournament over the disparity
in prize money between men and women, and helps found the Virginia Slims Circuit, a series of tennis tournaments that eventually became the Women's Tennis Association, a principal organizing body of the spor
in prize money
between men and
women, and helps found the Virginia Slims Circuit, a series of tennis tournaments that eventually became the Women's Tennis Association, a principal organizing body of the s
women, and helps found the Virginia Slims Circuit, a series of tennis tournaments that eventually became the
Women's Tennis Association, a principal organizing body of the s
Women's Tennis Association, a principal organizing body of the sport.
Last year there were rumors that
in addition to everything else awesome about the
movie, it was supposed to include a romance
between two
women of the Dora Milaje, Danai Gurira's Okoye and Florence Kasumba's Ayo.
But I suppose Hallström felt that with all the other types of warm fuzzies he covers — mother - daughter, grandmother - grandson, friend - friend — he might as well drop
in good ol' man -
woman cuddlies
between glamorous
movie stars.
It's a shame Battle of the Sexes wasn't a bigger hit, because this
movie chronicling the 1973 match
between superstar and
women's sports pioneer Billie Jean King and 55 - year - old former tennis legend Bobby Riggs is so sensationally entertaining, and so culturally relevant for this exact moment
in history, watching it proves to be a continuous joy even if viewers know exactly how the pair's story comes to an end.
A few days ago we got our first look at Chris Pine as Steve Trevor
in Warner's upcoming Wonder
Woman movie, which — judging by his clothing — appeared to confirm that the story
between Steve and Diana would take place
in the past.
Here, the
movie is dripping with sexual tension
between the two female leads, as Sook - hee cares for Hideko, finding herself
in a position where she sees every vulnerability, every detail, every inch of this
woman's character.
In fact, there's barely a line between sex and death in the movie, which tells the story of a strange young woman who has been repressing feelings both sexual and violent and comes to an awakening soon after she turns 1
In fact, there's barely a line
between sex and death
in the movie, which tells the story of a strange young woman who has been repressing feelings both sexual and violent and comes to an awakening soon after she turns 1
in the
movie, which tells the story of a strange young
woman who has been repressing feelings both sexual and violent and comes to an awakening soon after she turns 18.
Beginning amid the decadent glamour of China
in the 1930s and ending
in the 1980s
in Hong Kong, this brilliant novel, which formed the basis for the award - winning
movie, is the passionate story of an opera student who falls
in love with his best friend, and the beautiful
woman who comes
between them.
«As
in a
movie poster, using quick, hectic brushstrokes, Jacqueline de Jong sought to create a dramatic sketch of a situation, to capture the literally sensational of the criminal moment, with image and typography
in shreds, concentrated into the classic mythical constellation of man and
woman or trench coat and hat, coloured with the signs of fear — wide open eyes, the hand clutching the forbidden, blood on the knife blade, flame spewing from the barrel of the revolver, a last kiss
between monster and victim.»
In Cindy Sherman's famed Untitled Film Stills series, most of the 69 photographs depict the artist as a archetypal character known from the movies: a housewife, a femme fatale, a working girl, and everything in between — all evoking the ways the cinema has the tendency to objectify wome
In Cindy Sherman's famed Untitled Film Stills series, most of the 69 photographs depict the artist as a archetypal character known from the
movies: a housewife, a femme fatale, a working girl, and everything
in between — all evoking the ways the cinema has the tendency to objectify wome
in between — all evoking the ways the cinema has the tendency to objectify
women.
In a footnote, Judge Brooks found such reasoning reminiscent of the «reasoning» used to determine if a woman is a witch in the movie «Monty Python and the Holy Grail,» and even quoted the film's hilarious exchange between peasants getting ready to burn an innocent woman suspected of witchcraft, and the «learned» knight who corrects the
In a footnote, Judge Brooks found such reasoning reminiscent of the «reasoning» used to determine if a
woman is a witch
in the movie «Monty Python and the Holy Grail,» and even quoted the film's hilarious exchange between peasants getting ready to burn an innocent woman suspected of witchcraft, and the «learned» knight who corrects the
in the
movie «Monty Python and the Holy Grail,» and even quoted the film's hilarious exchange
between peasants getting ready to burn an innocent
woman suspected of witchcraft, and the «learned» knight who corrects them.