Sentences with phrase «feminist films about»

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So perhaps Ms. Peeters» film can tell us some things about us as well — it does not hesitate, after all, to move its camera from the harassing men onto the various soft - porn advertisements that also haunt the streets of Brussels, and ask the old - fashioned feminist question, one which Ms. Brown's magazine actively mocked and undermined, «How can we be respected when images like this are displayed and circulated?»

Whilst Jane Campion has a tradition of making films about women in a men's world, I felt this film failed to be a hard hitting feminist discourse, mainly because the story was so ordinary.

Given the recent flood of sexual abuse allegations and the continued struggle for equality between the sexes, now really feels like the right time for a film about Gloria Steinem, a galvanizing figure in the feminist movement.

Suggesting a period piece version of a film noir saga as envisioned by Stanley Kubrick, this twisted feminist drama is rooted in contentious racial - and gender - warfare issues, employing a meticulous formalism to recount its cutthroat story about Katherine's at - any - cost attempts to attain liberation.

Their film is zippy and funny but also layered with a let's - all - get - along message that feels more relevant and engaged than your average kids» movie (including feminist gags about not calling women animals «cute»).

Writer / director Volpe goes more into detail about the inspiring, humorous and powerful film, its symbolism and why she considers herself a feminist.

In her review of the film for the BFI, my good friend and collaborator Sophie Mayer astutely links Stories We Tell to the feminist classic Daughter Rite (1978) by Michelle Citron, and what I love about this connection is the fact that it perfectly crystallizes how experimental and powerful Polley's examination of female identity — both hers and that of her elusive mother — is.

The film makes solid points about the feminist case against firearms, then scrutinises these a little more closely, and backs its agenda up with its roles for women — Alison Pill's opposition turncoat is another case in point.

Writer and director Joss Whedon has always described himself as a feminist, which is fair enough considering he created Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but in May he was forced to deactivate his Twitter account after being deluged by complaints about Black Widow's role in his film.

While it's clear that Olive loves Bill (she wouldn't have so much sex with him, live with him, or bear his children if she didn't), the focus of the film is the love between the women, and it is so refreshing — and so true to the spirit of these early feminists — that the film has this perspective, despite it ostensibly being about «the Creator of Wonder Woman.»

Production designer Alice Normington has worked on various projects set in the Victorian era — a TV movie adaptation of Great Expectations, among others — and stepped into the Edwardian era with great enthusiasm on Sarah Gavron's Suffragette, a film about the early feminist movement in London.

Hollywood, beset by scandal in 2017, wouldn't mind backing a movie about the power of the free press as a sideswipe at an unpopular president, much less a movie about the power of the free press that might be the most feminist film Spielberg has ever made.

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Just because a film fails the test, doesn't mean it's a bad film, it doesn't mean it would be improved if it followed the formula — it doesn't even mean a film can't be feminist if it doesn't «pass the test», but it's about a larger trend that is problematic when you look at a group of movies.

Susan G. Cole is a playwright, broadcaster, feminist commentator and the Books and Entertainment editor at NOW Magazine, where she writes about film.

With all its buzz about being a «feminist film» and the ridiculous drama brought about by a wannabe men's activist espousing the film's brain - washing agenda, sounds like some of those music - loving Pitch Perfect fans may just mosy over to Mad Max next weekend for another dose of kick - ass women.

Sarah Gavron's Sufragette, is set in the early 20th century film about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement in the UK, stars Carey Mulligan, Meryl Streep, Helena Bonham Carter and Natalie Press.

As an activist group supporting feminist progress in the film industry, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ.org), a nonprofit professional association of women who write about film and the movie industry, keeps tabs on films made by and about women throughout each year, conducting what might be considered a very informal study of feminist film production.

Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, 2017), because it's the most powerful popular feminist statement in mainstream cinema thus far, inspiring countless young women and girls to dare to succeed; because Patty Jenkins more than deserved it after languishing in the wilderness of episodic television after her masterful film Monster (2003), when any male director would have gone on to direct four of five features on the strength of that one film; because it's about damned time that a female comic book feature got made; because Jenkins still had to fight to get a fair payday to direct WW 2 — enduring months of fight - to - the - death negotiations to get a directorial fee comparable to that of Zack Snyder or J.J. Abrams for the sequel; and finally because she's better than either of those two directors, who are overrated hacks with little or no vision at all.

About Blog Radical Feminists Unite is a group of women in Toronto who get together on a regular basis to discuss feminism and to hold potlucks and film screenings.

We spoke to a versatile feminist artist and experimental filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson about her works and her source of inspirations, and made it as a short film.

Burns and Steiner have selected two short videos to be screened with Community Action Center: Kajsa Dahlberg's Female Fist (2006), a film shot with the lens cap left on the camera while Dahlberg interviewed Copenhagen's queer feminist community about the possibility of making a porn film in the lesbian activist scene there, and Paul Mpagi Sepuya's Subject - Object Proof no. 3 (Nico, smelling)(2009), which explores the relationships and negotiations between artist, sitter / subject, and viewer.

In a statement about feminism and labor, she weaves quilts from 16 mm feminist documentary film reels that were deaccessioned from the Fashion Institute of Technology.

About Blog Radical Feminists Unite is a group of women in Toronto who get together on a regular basis to discuss feminism and to hold potlucks and film screenings.

Los Angeles, CA About Blog AfterEllen.com works the lesbian / bi pop culture beat with a fun, feminist perspective on film, television, music, books, and sports.

Even though just about any movie is an opportunity to learn about something (even the feminist politics of Frozen), I promise you won't find a film that strikes the balance between education and entertainment as much as this does.

About Blog Radical Feminists Unite is a group of women in Toronto who get together on a regular basis to discuss feminism and to hold potlucks and film screenings.