Director Ali Asgari's
film about women in strict societies who fight for their right to have children unconventionally
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.
There is a disproportionate number of
films about women in the lineup, which seems to indicate that the film that will benefit most from that would be Lady Bird.
Not exact matches
Cameron also spoke
about the lack of older
women in action
films, compared to older men, as an incentive to include Hamilton
in his latest «Terminator»
film.
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 c
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 c
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.
A week after The New York Times and The New Yorker ran back - to - back reports cataloguing Harvey Weinstein's alleged serial sexual harassment of
women in Hollywood, actress Selma Blair saw a story on HuffPost
about writer and director James Toback's new
film that made her blood run cold.
All the statistics
about attendees indicate that horror
films are still solid date movies» and,
in an American society where an ever - increasing percentage of young men and
women are staying unmarried longer and having children later, the appeal of thrills that entertain without forcing one to think too hard is expanded to a larger market.
After determining that I was not just another moralist who wanted to influence
film content, but someone who was genuinely interested
in film, Shurlock relaxed and asked me a question that was very much on his mind: «We are trying to determine what to do
about a picture
in which director Sidney Lumet wants to include a shot of a
woman's bare breasts.
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.»
During the Q & A following the
film, one
woman in the Sundance crowd commented, «I'm against all the recent wars that America has been involved
in; so I admit I had a preconceived opinion
about what I was watching.
The day after Lisa Belkin's initial NY Times post she followed up with
About that orgasmic birth... and went into a little more detail about the responses she received, the film and one of the women featured in the
About that orgasmic birth... and went into a little more detail
about the responses she received, the film and one of the women featured in the
about the responses she received, the
film and one of the
women featured
in the
film.
This one was from Kate, who identified herself as an API member from New Hampshire, USA, and the
woman about whom the article featured
in the
film for maybe a couple seconds is
about.
This fall, we held a screening of the documentary
film «No Mas Bebes»
about the forced sterilization of Chicana
women at County USC+LAC Hospital
in the 1970s.
A former politics lecturer is
in hot water for being caught on
film appearing to don an orange bra with a studded leather jacket, smoking a cigarette
in his underwear, snorting white powder from a
woman's breasts and allegedly making rude comments
about the prime minister.
In response, Katko said he never endorsed Trump and was convinced that Trump should step down from his campaign after audio leaked last month in which Trump, before filming «Access Hollywood» in 2005, made lewd comments about wome
In response, Katko said he never endorsed Trump and was convinced that Trump should step down from his campaign after audio leaked last month
in which Trump, before filming «Access Hollywood» in 2005, made lewd comments about wome
in which Trump, before
filming «Access Hollywood»
in 2005, made lewd comments about wome
in 2005, made lewd comments
about women.
«Secondly, don't believe everything that you read
about movie stars because some of the
women who've had kids
in their late 40s, such as
film stars, have used donor eggs, but they don't tell you that
in the article because it's their own private business,» warns Prof Ledger.
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.
Salma doesn't seem to have a
film to promote this year, but she attended the CFF to speak
about her industry experience during the festival's «
Women in Motion» panel.
Model and «Houghton Girl» Chloe Norgaard is one of nine
women who star
in a poignant short
film about body positivity ups and downs.
Despite not knowing much
about the
film industry, I always appreciate the chance to learn from inspirational and creative
women in other fields.
Pandy «PJ» Wallis is a writer whose novels
about a young
woman making her way
in Manhattan have spawned a series of blockbuster
films.
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.
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about Korean
films released
in the 1960s
Along with another early silent - screen actress, Mae Marsh, Clifford would turn up
in about every other Ford
film, usually playing pioneer
women.
Preaching to the Choir seeds adequately
in the very fertile genre of black
films about redemption, but don't expect performances on the level of last year's Diary of a Mad Black
Woman or The Preacher's Wife.
The feature, Actors
in Search of a Story, applauds the entire cast of the
film (right down to the
woman who plays Harold's psychologist for
about two minutes of screen time), Building the Team profiles director Marc Forster and some of his crew, and Words on a Page focuses on budding young screenwriter Zach Helm.
When you hear «pre-code
women's prison
film» you may have an impression based other
films, such as «Ladies They Talk
About» (1933), but this one is refreshing
in its portrayal of the inmates.
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
«Clean» might be a
film in code
about the most infamous of all rock - and - roll widows, but I hope not, since Allison Anders» «Sugar Town» had already done a fine job of eviscerating (again,
in code) this
woman, who nevertheless, love her or hate her, arguably served the important and underrated function of muse for the troubled drug - addled musician.
If nobody had been so adamant
about making this
film «
about» Diane Arbus, it would be a perfect story
about how an uncommon
woman, living
in the lap of luxury and perfection, discovers her own capability to see beyond the shape of things and boredom that privilege means.
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.
His fourth
film under his 20 - year ban is «an artful, surprising and thrillingly intelligent story
about a few
women trying to make a difference, forging bonds of solidarity
in quiet defiance of the repressive, small - minded men
in their rural village,» writes L.A. Times critic Justin Chang, who also finds «its insights casually profound.»
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 pape
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 pape
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 paper.
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.
Notwithstanding the
women's role
in the
film — Bank's awkward, yet resonantly true rant
about her third - trimester «hell» towards the end is the best part — this
film is
about the «Dudes.»
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.
Jolie's directorial debut was the little - seen «
In the Land of Blood and Honey,» a
film that traded epic sweep for a more intimate but no less brutal story,
about a
woman's sexual subjugation during the Bosnia - Serbia conflict.
In addition to Slater (who also executive produced), Cameron Diaz is on hand as Kyle's bride Laura, a controlling, passive - aggressive
woman who drops the passive hyphenate
about halfway through the
film.
Enough Said is a unique
film in that it isn't
about the man having to overcome his foibles
in order to be worthy of the
woman he wants, it's
about a
woman who must look within and come to terms on whether she can accept someone else into her life who has a set of flaws that someone she regards highly finds unacceptable.
The 2018 Academy Award nominations also include another transgender entry
in the Best Foreign Language
Film category with the Chilean / German co-production, A Fantastic
Woman, a film about a trans woman who faces transphobia while mourning her lover's d
Woman, a
film about a trans
woman who faces transphobia while mourning her lover's d
woman who faces transphobia while mourning her lover's death.
Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for
women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories
about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them
in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories
about women.»
She will next be seen
in the Semi Chellas - helmed
film American
Woman, a
film about the
women who cared for Patty Hearst.
In 2011, a
film was released called Pariah,
about a young, African American
woman who is quietly but assuredly embracing her sexuality.
We don't get a whole lot of the comedy
in the trailer, which makes the
film seem like a fairly straightforward drama
about a
woman's spiritual battles.
It's maybe not the movie for audiences who absolutely insist on a plot — The Guardian,
in a 4/5 review, calls it «a
film about nothing specific» — but if you're willing to just give yourself over to the experience, 20th Century
Women looks like a warmhearted dramedy.
Although the
film is a bit on the preachy side
in an obvious way, it's difficult not to feel good
about the
women coming to terms with their own bodies and feeling proud of who they are.
Although there have been many
films about pregnancy and the fears involved
in having a baby, there are angles here not often taken before
in comedy, including what goes through a man's mind when having sex with a pregnant
woman («I don't want that to be the first thing the baby sees», etc.) that is funny (because it probably actually does go through a man's mind).
The
film runs for a taut 83 minutes, and part of what's impressive
about it is how economically,
in a wholly unobtrusive way, it sets up the conflict between the two leading characters, an executive and a
woman roughly half her age.
In Olivier Assayas's English - language film Personal Shopper, Stewart's haunted look comes mesmerizingly into its own in a story about a young woman hoping to communicate with the beyon
In Olivier Assayas's English - language
film Personal Shopper, Stewart's haunted look comes mesmerizingly into its own
in a story about a young woman hoping to communicate with the beyon
in a story
about a young
woman hoping to communicate with the beyond.