Sentences with phrase «by women in film»

PS - I wanted to check out the blogs written by the women in the film after I got done watching it, so I thought I'd include a list of links here to make it easy to find them if you're interested, too!

As AWFJ member Nell Minow puts it, «What's important about our EDA Awards is that we bring a unique perspective in honoring the wonderful work that's done by women in film and that we weigh in on sexism that arises from ongoing male dominance in the film industry, especially as it pertains to women's images on film.»

In the future, Rabin's hopes of his «manic pixie dream girl's» official downfall most likely will be a wish granted by the women in film, rather than the pixies.

Not exact matches

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of cWoman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of cwoman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

In the film Wonder Woman, a band led by the eponymous hero fight and win a battle at a place called No Man's Land.

In fact, Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins was the first woman to direct a superhero movie and the film ended up as the highest - grossing movie ever helmed by a woman (along with being last year's third - highest grossing film domesticaWoman director Patty Jenkins was the first woman to direct a superhero movie and the film ended up as the highest - grossing movie ever helmed by a woman (along with being last year's third - highest grossing film domesticawoman to direct a superhero movie and the film ended up as the highest - grossing movie ever helmed by a woman (along with being last year's third - highest grossing film domesticawoman (along with being last year's third - highest grossing film domestically).

Despite all the attention paid lately to the lack of gender diversity in the role, the portion of films directed by women declined last year, to just 7 %.

The film spans several decades, following Corinne from a young girl who half - heartedly proclaims herself to be saved by Jesus to a teenager who marries when she becomes pregnant to a woman ensconced in a deeply religious community after she and her husband come to believe that God has saved their baby.

According to a study from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, the number of women directing films may actually be declining, with the top 250 highest - grossing domestic films going from 7 percent in 2015 to 5 percent in 2016 being directed by wWomen in Television and Film, the number of women directing films may actually be declining, with the top 250 highest - grossing domestic films going from 7 percent in 2015 to 5 percent in 2016 being directed by wwomen directing films may actually be declining, with the top 250 highest - grossing domestic films going from 7 percent in 2015 to 5 percent in 2016 being directed by womenwomen.

Or consider the report by Caryn James in the New York Times on the recent Sundance Film Festival, in which she describes the film Care of the Spitfire Grill as «a manipulatively heartwarming story about a young woman just out of prison who finds spiritual redemption.»

The L.A. Times has just posted a lengthy expose outlining what several women say was pattern of inappropriate behavior by Franco, who also helped operate a film school called Studio 4, and would offer students the opportunity to star in some of Franco's own projects.

Apparently, this tart was created by a Polish pâtissier, at the times when Roger Vadim started to make a film...» And God created woman...» in St Tropez, starring who was at the time an unknown girl called Brigitte... The film crew loved this tart so much that they asked the pâtissier to make one (or several) every day... The film was a hit, the unknown girl became a world sex - symbol.....

The film follows the story of a young woman, Eilis Lacey, played by Academy Award - nominated Saoirse Ronan, who leaves Ireland in search of a better life.

In a film dominated by men, she does her best to include the revealing glances of the women around them.

Immigration detention is once more in the news and was debated in Parliament this week, this time because of a hunger strike by women held at Yarls» Wood, the detention centre where abuse by guards was filmed undercover for Channel 4 in 2015.

Screen icon Meryl Streep, who like countless performers has appeared in films produced or distributed by The Weinstein Company, called revelations that studio co-founder Harvey Weinstein had sexually harassed women for decade «disgraceful.»

A woman in Beavercreek, Ohio was arrested by police for allegedly filming herself while raping a child under 10 years...

Ziskin, a Hollywood film producer who died of metastatic breast cancer, was a co-founder of Stand Up To Cancer, an initiative founded in 2008 by nine women in the entertainment industry to accelerate groundbreaking research and bring new treatments to patients as quickly as possible.

Sri Reddy's semi-nude protest against the alleged sexual exploitation of women in the film industry by influential members outside the Movie Artistes Association (MAA), an apex body of the Telugu film industry.

Many women aspired to simple black sheath dresses similar to the black Givenchy dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in the film Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Co-written by Nick Hornby and Cheryl Strayed, and directed by Jean - Marc Vallée (of Dallas Buyers Club fame) this film is unflinching in it's portrayal of a woman wild and, ultimately, freed.

Keira «s film Laggies, about a woman stuck in permanent adolescence who lies to her fiance, was just given a release date of September 26, 2014 by its studio, A24.

Many blockbuster films have featured a down - on - her - luck lady, from Julia Roberts in «Pretty Woman» to Jennifer Lopez in «Maid in Manhattan,» who meets a wealthy individual by chance, wins him over with her charms, and lives happily ever after.

It may be interesting to watch the film «Zaritsas: Russian Women in New York» by filmmaker Elena Beloff, a Russian woman who has lived in New York for ten years.

Written by Being John Malkovich scribe Charlie Kaufman, Human Nature was the feature debut from acclaimed music - video director Michel Gondry and featured Arquette as a woman cursed with a coat of fur covering her body.As the decade progressed, audiences could see Arquette in projects ranging from the star - studded documentary Searching for Debra Winger to the sleeper family film Holes.

Perhaps in the early 1930s when the film is set, things were not so radically different for women than they were in the early, pre-suffragette 1890s when Oscar Wilde wrote his play — but, without wishing to suggest that the battle of the sexes is now definitely over, things have certainly moved on, and the film's preoccupations with womanly virtue and womanly repute is of more historical interest than contemporary relevance, leaving the distinct impression that this «updating» of Wilde has been done only by half measures.

She appeared in a number of series, including the popular crime drama Cracker and such costume extravaganzas as Jane Eyre and Emma.Morton became known to an international film audience in 1997, when she won wide acclaim for her wrenching, fearless portrayal of a young woman driven to promiscuous behavior by the death of her mother in Carine Adler's Under the Skin.

These difficulties are exaggerated in the film adaptation, A Good Woman, written by Howard Himelstein and directed by Mike Barker.

The film is framed by a letter that Caroline, afflicted with a mortal case of Scarlet Fever, is writing to her young «uns in 1775, a communication that tells the story of a woman who despite her beauty and charm is not particularly liked by her new husband.

Set in an unnamed South American country, the film centers around Paulina Escobar (Weaver), a woman who, 15 years earlier, was tortured and raped by the since - deposed governmental regime.

They've taken one of the most glamorous actresses of the modern era — a woman whose looks have been abstracted into hubba - hubba caricature in most films, and on awards shows — and ironically restored her earthliness by having her play a creature not of this earth.

Set in 1943, as London felt the regular bombings from Hitler and the Allied ships were often bombarded by German U-boats, the film covers the work of the men and women who toiled in the top secret estate of Bletchley Park.

Intense psychodrama in this Italian film about a woman who recall her past abuse by a pedophilia father.

Inspired by, but not adapted from, Roland Barthes, Claire Denis» new film about a single woman living alone in Paris is a sophisticated delight

Two years later, he could be seen in another high - profile, politically tinged thriller, this time opposite Denzel Washington in director Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate.In 2005 he made his directorial and screenwriting debut with Everything Is Illuminated, and appeared in the critically acclaimed, Golden Globe - winning HBO movie Lackawanna Blues, a life - affirming film about a selfless black woman (played by S. Epatha Merkerson) in 1950s segregated New York who provides a home and a guiding hand to the youths who come to live at her boarding house.

The film's most memorable moments belong to Streep's sometimes awkwardly sympathetic character as she enters yet another boardroom populated by men or, later in the story, when she emerges from the Supreme Court to find a sea of upturned faces of young women there to cheer her on.

The film chronicles a woman's erotic journey from birth to age 50, recounted over 8 chapters by Joe, a self - diagnosed nymphomaniac, to Seligman, a bachelor who finds her beaten body in an alleyway and tends to her wounds.

While the film touches upon its various political and cultural issues (In addition to the give - and - take relationships between reporters and politicians, there's a lot about the overt and subtle sexism that Kat receives as the first and, at the time, only woman serving a newspaper publisher), the film plays mostly and best as a race - against - the - clock thriller of sorts, in which the obstacles are as imposing as the might of the U.S. government and as low - key as deadlines or being beaten to a story by a rival papeIn addition to the give - and - take relationships between reporters and politicians, there's a lot about the overt and subtle sexism that Kat receives as the first and, at the time, only woman serving a newspaper publisher), the film plays mostly and best as a race - against - the - clock thriller of sorts, in which the obstacles are as imposing as the might of the U.S. government and as low - key as deadlines or being beaten to a story by a rival papein which the obstacles are as imposing as the might of the U.S. government and as low - key as deadlines or being beaten to a story by a rival paper.

As interpreted by Jessie Buckley, who once played Miranda in Jeremy Herrin's 2014 film «The Tempest,» she brings fire and fury into her role as a woman determined to break the chain of her snobbish and repressive mother, willing to take her bond with Pascal wherever it leads and damn the possibility that she could be one of his victims.

Whereas in «Deliverance», the person of perceived lower class asserts his dominance by violating Bobby («squeal like a pig») in the woods, therefore transforming class struggle into class warfare: Gina (Kiele Sanchez), a Georgian just like the hicks in the Boorman film, intimidates Cliff and Cydney when the country woman processes a goat into food, where she violates the animal (that Nick, played by Timothy Olyphant, had slain) with her hands for its innards.

Directed by Aleksander Bach, Friend will co-star alongside Zachary Quinto, Hannah Ware, and Ciarán Hinds in this film about an assassin who teams up with a woman to help her find her father, and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry.

This devastating film is buoyed by Dequenne's bravura willingness to go all out; she's a baby - faced kid when the camera focuses full on and an exceptionally beautiful young woman in profile.

The film, based on the novel by Gayle Forman, is an almost deliberate confirmation of Alison Bechdel's claim that women in film are so often shown only in relation to men.

Instead of asinine comments on how impossible it would be to have a woman in combat (nevermind that she arrived in the final battle independent of the other fighters and so could not have been prevented from joining by the other men), it might have crossed your mind to mention how pretentious it was for the heroin of the film (which is what she is) to be directly compared to such a major historical figure.

I am frustrated by the lack of modern - or future - set films without strong female characters, but I'm aware that, historically speaking, women haven't been given much training in warfare or an equal share of about anything.

Directed by Catherine Hardwicke, the woman who scored with another film portrayal of troubled youth in Thirteen, the look and sounds of the 1970s are accurately recreated, even if some of the costumes look like they are more suited for Halloween than the actual mid-1970s.

Inspired by the resonant memoir from Carolyn Briggs (who also wrote the screenplay) the film is an exquisite study of one woman's internal struggle with the primary love relationships in her life.

Disney's adaptation of A Wrinkle In Time will mark the first time black women have helmed a $ 100 million (# 72 million) film, with Gugu joined by Storm Reid and Oprah Winfrey.

The Homesman is written, directed and produced by Tommy Lee Jones, who also leads the film as a claim - jumping rascal of a man saved from a hanging by a pioneer woman (Hilary Swank) who has a unique request in return.

Inspired by real events, Mulligan plays Maud, a working wife and mother who is recruited by the women's suffragette movement in the U.K. Meryl Streep plays Emmeline Pankhurst, the leader of the women's rebellion and the film also co-stars Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson and Anne - Marie Duff.