Sentences with phrase «film about a female»

Why can we see more films about females taking the higher road?

I'll show it to my children because it's a film about female friendship and lord knows there aren't enough of those, and I'll show it to significant others, because if they don't swoon a little as Frances dances to «Modern Love,» or beam at the final shot, then I won't be entirely sure it's going to work out.

Bravery in the face of adversity is also a key theme in first time director Nanfu Wang's startling documentary, «Hooligan Sparrow,» a film about female activism and dissent in China and the systematic sexual abuse of children.

Jeff Baena has taken as his inspiration Bocaccio's Decameron for his sly gem of a film about female frustration and empowerment, THE LITTLE HOURS.

It's a film about a female protagonist, written and directed by a woman.

Patricia Rozema's Into the Forest, another film about female empowerment, stars Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood as sisters struggling to survive the terrifying circumstances of a massive power outage.

This is a film about female gender roles made by a male director, who doesn't seem to know much about female gender roles, despite the script being written by a woman.

What's notable this year and in this fraught climate, he says, is a best - picture category that looks stacked with films about the female experience, from The Shape of Water and Three Billboards to I, Tonya and Lady Bird.

Why do all movies about male robots tend to focus on blowing stuff up, while films about female robots are always to a greater or lesser extent about sex?

A monumental film about the female erotic desire, with claims and counter-claims, conflicting angles, and moral or perhaps precisely immoral observations.

From working with Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain and Glenn Close to making a film about the female orgasm, Alex Prager creates unsettling, dream - like worlds.

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 color.

«If notable actors working across 25 top films in 2013 had made this change to their contracts, the proportion of balanced films (about half - female) would have jumped from 16 percent to 41 percent,» she says.

Lions Gate Entertainment (No. 54) has had box office success with two major franchises: The Twilight series (produced by Summit Entertainment, a Lions Gate subsidiary) and Hunger Games, which have much in common as they are both film adaptations of bestselling young adult book series, are fantastical (one is about vampires and the other about a futuristic dystopia), and are anchored by a dynamic young female character (portrayed by Kristen Stewart in Twilight, Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games).

In the end, he had to put on the only completely crueltyfree film he could find, a comedy about the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team, but I still managed to cry when they crossed the finishing line and wondered whether this transformation into a pathetic weepy female was permanent.

Another actress, Jessica Chastain, complained to Radio Times about the film industry's propensity to cast female action heroes not for their characters, but for their bodies.

The film must contain more than one female character; these female characters must have a conversation with one another; and that conversation must be about something other than a man.

but I can't believe that a certain female writer (initials «SG»), now with (the trash news - site) CNN, and a consultant to the film, hasn't been mentioned... That she's associated with this project (and we all know how hip deep she was in the lynching of Joe) gives us all we need to know about how it will be slanted...

Film House Chief Operating Officer Michael Haggerty has already been in the Syracuse area scouting locations for the film, which he says is «about a female astronaut who crash lands and is offered a smuggling job that will pay for her ship's repairs.»

The actress, who is serving as a jury panelist for the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, spoke publicly about her disappointment at the depiction of women in this year's films, saying, «I do hope that when we include more female storytellers, we will have more of the women that I recognize in my day - to - day life.

For a recent film called «Young Hearts,» female filmmaking duo ACAPULCO sat down to talk about love with regular attendees of a Berlin dance hall for senior citizens.

Director Tom Dey's film is yet another by - the - numbers romantic comedy where the same tired escapades ensue, including one character's climactic discovery of the other's secret (in this case, when Tripp finds out about Paula's career as a female Hitch), and their eventual reunion at the end.

Director Abel Ferrara applies his eccentric vision to the vampire genre with this cerebral «Art» film about graduate philosophy student Kathleen Conklin (Lili Taylor), who is bitten by an aggressive female vampire (Annabella Sciorra) and soon spirals into a nightmarish world of blood addiction and existential angst.

In 2008, Pixar announced that they were beginning work on a film called «Newt,» about a male and female blue - footed newt that were the last of their kind, paired up by scientists to save the species.

Some may disagree, but it's one of the better Bond films not just because of Craig, and a great female lead — but because it combines everything that is good about Bond in the first place without the need of just gadgets to progress what happens in the storyline.

That film truly was about female empowerment — about a woman using every inch of her body to achieve her goals while also having agency over her fate.

The female roles are (unfortunately) secondary to all other plot elements, but the film still warrants a viewing if but for the political uproar it brought about after exposing the chain gang system.

I was not solely thinking about Ebert's essay (he hasn't written a review that I have seen so far), but also Tod Browning's FREAKS which even has a bit of a similar ending, Sam Fuller's Naked Kiss which has the female lead «realize» a horrific situation at the and several modern films.

Unsurprisingly, Persepolis has attracted the wrath of the Iranian government, but more captivating than the film's depictions of cultural repression (a scene where Marji, out to buy a black market Iron Maiden album, is beset by weasel - bodied female Guardians of the Revolution because she wears a jean jacket and «punk» sneakers is but one well - handled example) are its more understated portraits of Iran's intellectual elite, at once removed from the proletariat it so pompously champions and sadly delusional about the real threat of the fanatic trajectory of the revolution.

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.

What's most stunning about the anecdotes recounted by Dick's interviewees is how alike they are, and if his film doesn't delve quite deeply enough into the type of culture that breeds such conduct (specifically, the way in which the army projects strength as a masculine trait, thereby subconsciously disparaging female victimhood as an undesirable weakness), its spartan use of graphics and statistics conveys arguments with little grandstanding.

But here's Twilight Time to revive that memory: Ms. Kelly plays the female lead in the film adaptation of the Off Broadway show The Fantasticks, a movie about a carnival and a scheme two get two «bickering» neighbors» kids married off to one another.

The festival programme continues until Sunday 20 November with a number of other film and documentary premieres, including Driving with Selvi, the story of a former child bride, who escapes her violent marriage and becomes South India's first female taxi driver and The Innocents a compelling French drama about a young doctor becoming the sole hope for an isolated convent.

In an interview with BBC's The One Show, Oscar winner and new raider of tombs Alicia Vikander talked about how excited she was to be playing a badass female character and how exciting it is «To see female characters in these kinds of films... It's definitely a big change happening.»

The film by talented director Pedro Almodóvar is about a predominantly female family and how they deal with situations that unfold.

A film about a male teacher getting it on with his female student ought to touch a nerve in the era of #MeToo.

It is a must - see film for anyone curious about the origin of Wonder Woman's origin story, starring Luke Evans as Professor Marston, the man who created the iconic female hero.

Towne prepped what would have been a big - budget endeavor by helming the smaller - scale drama «Personal Best,» about female track - and - field athletes, but in order to be allowed to complete the film, Towne had to give Warner Bros. the rights to his beloved «Greystoke» script.

While sexual harrassment exposed depressing truths about the state of women in the industry, it was also a banner year for female - led films.

As we all know, Marvel has had quite a flogging in the press about its treatment of its female characters: Not only is there no stand - alone female superhero film yet, but our daughters also have no female superhero action figures.

ABOUT THE AWFJ and EDA AWARDS The Alliance of Women Film Journalists, Inc. (AWFJ), a not - for - profit corporation, is an international association of leading professional female movie critics, reporters and feature writers working in print, broadcast and online media, dedicated to supporting film work by and about women — both in front of and behind the cameras — through intra-group promotional activities, outreach programs and by presenting the annual AWFJ EDA Awards in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (the best and worst) by and about women in the moABOUT THE AWFJ and EDA AWARDS The Alliance of Women Film Journalists, Inc. (AWFJ), a not - for - profit corporation, is an international association of leading professional female movie critics, reporters and feature writers working in print, broadcast and online media, dedicated to supporting film work by and about women — both in front of and behind the cameras — through intra-group promotional activities, outreach programs and by presenting the annual AWFJ EDA Awards in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (the best and worst) by and about women in the moabout women — both in front of and behind the cameras — through intra-group promotional activities, outreach programs and by presenting the annual AWFJ EDA Awards in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (the best and worst) by and about women in the moabout women in the movies.

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.

We're also fans of several films about difficult young women, including Carrie Pilby about a female Holden Caulfield, Nelly about the Quebecois novelist Nelly Arcand, and Toni Erdmann.

This will more than likely go into depth about the one of the more exciting aspects of the film, the all - female military regiment who serve as special forces for Wakanda known as the Dora Milaje.

There were so many films made by minorities (females, people of color, LGBTQ + people, people with disabilities, etc) about minorities.

Specifically, she recalls how, on the same day a «tough adult female friend» confronted Kramer about his actions against Dushku, a stunt on the film's set went «wrong,» putting the child actress in the hospital with broken ribs.

They weren't catching the wave of excitement Selma's mere presence brought to audiences — not because history was about to be made with the first black female director in the Oscar race, but because Selma was such a very good film, such a moving film, such a sensual, breathtaking, wholly original work that no one really knew what to do with it.

By the time we meet one of Miss Peregrine's colleagues in the form of a dowdy Judi Dench, the film creates more questions than it answers about these women, such as the disparity in their age, and why, exactly is their kind always female?

The much - discussed film about the late Apple co-founder may have found its female lead in Natalie Portman, according to trade reports.

What's even more uncanny, both films were about male stubbornness and inability to compromise, with the seemingly weaker female characters as the carriers of compassion and grace.