Sentences with phrase «films about women in»

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.

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.

Director Ali Asgari's film about women in strict societies who fight for their right to have children unconventionally

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 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.

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.

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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.

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«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.

Culture of Thailand - history, people, clothing, traditions, women, beliefs, food, customs, family Sa - Th This page is a collection of still photos and information 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 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.

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 dWoman, a film about a trans woman who faces transphobia while mourning her lover's dwoman 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.

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