Sentences with phrase «films by female directors»

-- ranking of the best films by female directors.

This September, TIFF welcomes 117 films by female directors.

With Joanna Hogg's third film, Exhibition, confirming her as among our best new filmmakers, we look back at some of the greatest British films by female directors.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with the Observer to be broadcast tonight on the Variety Live@Cannes internet TV show, Jacob said the festival set a tough precedent in picking four films by female directors in 2011, including Lynne Ramsay's We Need To Talk About Kevin.

Tangerine Entertainment produces narrative feature films by female directors, consults on various aspects of the filmmaking process, and works to create audience and community for work by women.

Though Unbroken made it in, the NBR threw a polite but very insulting bone to the other film by a female director who is on the rise, Ava DuVernay's powerful film Selma.

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.

Brenda Chapman, an animation writer - director with a storied career (Disney's The Lion King, DreamWorks» The Prince of Egypt), made headlines three years ago when she penned a New York Times op - ed addressing her painful experience being removed as the first female feature film director for Pixar's Brave, a mother - daughter fairytale she created, and replaced by a male colleague.

Join HUB seventeen and Rooftop Films for an evening of short films directed by female directors to celebrate our March month long celebration of women!

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.

There are no obvious hits in its lineup, though the studio has once again enlisted major or critically acclaimed directors, including Imitation Game helmer Morten Tyldum (for the sci - fi film Passengers), Paul Feig (for a female Ghostbusters reboot), Antoine Fuqua (a Magnificent Seven remake co-written by True Detective's Nic Pizzolatto), Ron Howard (Inferno), and Ang Lee (Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk).

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

Marvel's previous twenty films have all been helmed by male directors, including the upcoming Ant - Man and the Wasp, which features Marvel's first female lead, albeit still alongside a lead male hero.

TheWrap editor - in - chief Sharon Waxman moderates a panel featuring film executive Chaz Ebert, director Lucy Walker, producer Cassian Elwes, Creative Coalition CEO Robin Bronk, Swedish Film Institute CEO Anna Swerner and actress Dionne Audain participate in TheWrap and The Female Quotient's «Changing Hollywood: The Road to 50/50 by 2020» panel at The Girls Lounge in Cannes.

This would be the second female director hired by Marvel, who brought on creative duo Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Half Nelson) for the upcoming Captain Marvel, film which is set to be released in 2019.

This is no Basic Instinct or Single White Female or The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, but if you get a kick out of something like the Beyoncé versus Ali Larter film Obsessed or the J.Lo - starring Boy Next Door, then Unforgettable, helmed by first time feature director Denise Di Novi, provides a similar brand of campy ridiculousness.

The film became the top - grossing superhero origin movie of all time, along with the most profitable superhero movie to be helmed by a female director.

Reviews female critics write about films with female directors and / or written by at least one woman are considerably shorter (average of 480 words).

Last week at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, director Ted Melfi said by comparison that the average film crew is usually no more than 25 % female.

That rather sad fact, which is not uncommon, is one of the reasons that Johnson and Koch are proud that a festival run primarily by women regularly includes films with women directors — seven this year, including «Toni Erdmann» — along with features that focus on female characters such as «Jackie,» Kelly Reinhardt's «Certain Women» and Kelly Fremon Craig's coming - of - age comedy «The Edge of Seventeen.»

Tsui Hark, the producer, eventually took over as director, recasting the female lead, and the film was finally released four years after it began shooting, in a version disowned by Yim (though the film credits list him as the only director).

The concept will consist of seven short films, each of which will be led by a female director and a prominent female actor.

In the last few years we've seen quite a few films that center around a coming of age story with a female character, directed by a female director.

Female directors should fight film - industry sexism by making movies that appeal to as wide an audience as possible, Venice Film Festival jury president Annette Bening said Wednesday, the first day of a festival that has been criticized for a lack of...

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

• «Lady Bird» screenwriter and director Greta Gerwig's choice of a yellow gown by Rodarte designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy felt especially appropriate: The Mulleavys wrote and directed their first feature film in 2017, the Humboldt - set «Woodshock,» and have been major advocates for female filmmakers.

The movie is the latest exercise in comic noir by the writer / director Shane Black, and it shares a great many attributes with his terrific 2006 comeback film, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: the two mismatched detectives and their more practical female associate, the convoluted plot that features intersecting crime cases — even the hand maimed in an unfortunate encounter with a closed door.

The Palme d'Or winning film's two female leads, Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos, told The Daily Beast in an interview last week that director Abdellatif Kechiche demanded their «blind trust,» didn't know what he wanted from many scenes and then pushed them too hard with takes by the dozen — to the point where they wouldn't want to work with him again.

Some other notable films from female directors include the Telluride breakout «Lady Bird» by Greta Gerwig, a semi-autobiographical coming - of - age movie about women and female familial relationships; Brie Larson's magical realist directorial debut «Unicorn Store»; and «Battle of the Sexes,» a chronicling of the run - up to the landmark 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, directed by Valerie Faris and her husband, Jonathan Dayton.

A report released this month by USC Annenberg's Inclusion Initiative, however, is less encouraging — women made up only 4.3 % of all directors of the 1,100 top films released from 2007 - 17, a ratio of 22 males to each female director.

The film was developed, written, and initially directed by Brenda Chapman, the first female director of a Pixar feature, but she was removed and replaced by Pixar with Mark Andrews.

While Barbera has broken an 11 - year run of male Venice jury heads by appointing Annette Bening as this year's president, the number of female film - makers at this year's festival is less impressive, with just one — the Chinese director Vivian Qu — appearing in competition.

Three of the movies from female filmmakers of color that made our «Best Films About Women in 2014» list — Amma Asante's Belle, Gina Prince - Bythewood's Beyond the Lights, and Ava DuVernay's Selma — are happily among the 17 films helmed by female directors to crack the top 250 list.

With «Alien: Covenant,» director Ridley Scott returns to the form that so impelled and captivated audiences in the original 1979 film: a crew in trouble, an alpha no nonsense female lead (this time Daniels played by Katherine Waterston) and plenty of blood curdling aliens popping up everywhere.

FEMALE PRISONER SCORPION: BEAST STABLE • Newly filmed appreciation by critic Kat Ellinger • Shunya Ito: Directing Meiko Kaji, an archive interview with the director • Unchained Melody, a new visual essay by Tom Mes on the career of Meiko Kaji • Original Theatrical Trailer and Teaser

FEMALE PRISONER SCORPION: # 701's GRUDGE SONG • Newly filmed appreciation by filmmaker Kazuyoshi Kumakiri (Kichiku: Banquet of the Beasts) • Yasuharu Hasebe: Finishing the Series, an archive interview with the director • Japanese cinema critic Jasper Sharp looks over the career of Yasuharu Hasebe • They Call Her Scorpion, a new visual essay by Tom Mes on the film series • Original Theatrical Trailer

FEMALE PRISONER # 701: SCORPION • Newly filmed appreciation by filmmaker Gareth Evans (The Raid) • Shunya Ito: Birth of an Outlaw, an archive interview with the director • Scorpion Old and New, a new interview with assistant director Yutaka Kohira • Theatrical Trailers for all four films in the series

This, combined with the women's march last week in which the female members of the jury were joined on the red carpet to recognize that only 82 women have ever walked the red carpet as directors of an in competition film compared to 1,645 men, underlined that while two of the three female directors in competition (out of 21) won prizes but the Palme still eludes a solo win by a woman filmmaker.

Shelton is one of the few female directors who is able to keep creating films after her debut, and it's a reminder as to why supporting films created by women are so important.

Critics» Week also announced 10 short films in competition, three of them helmed by female directors.

Naomi Kawase) Cast: Makiko Watanabe, Hideo Sakaki, Jun Murakami, Tetta Sugimoto, Miyuki Matsuda The sole female director to have won the Palme d'Or, Jane Campion might be heading the jury this year, but once again, the festival looks like it could be very thin on the ground when it comes to films directed by women.

As previously reported, the weekend of March 9 marked the first time in recent memory, and possibly ever, that films by African - American directors have claimed the No. 1 and No. 2 spots on the same weekend, with Coogler's «Black Panther» again topping the box office, while Ava DuVernay's adaptation «A Wrinkle in Time,» which boasts a black female protagonist in Storm Reid as young heroine Meg Murry, opened in the second - place spot.

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.

So, now that Telluride has made an effort to include female directors and has a few female - driven films headlining, you are seeing the very kind of pushback that will limit choices by year's end.

«Wadjda» Given that it was made by a female director in an environment as hostile to both women and film as Saudi Arabia (where women can't drive, and cinemas have been closed for decades), it's genuinely staggering that «Wadjda» — which made its U.S. debut at Tribeca on its way to a full release from Sony Pictures Classics — turned out as brilliantly as it did.

At a time when women make up 50.8 % of the U.S. population, just 4.2 % of the 100 top - grossing American films are made by female directors; and that statistic hasn't changed over the last decade.

Ostensibly both a remake of the Southern Gothic erotic thriller by Don Siegel from 1971 and also an adaptation of Thomas P. Cullinan's 1966 novel «A Painted Devil», Coppola (who also wrote the screenplay and won the Best Director Award at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival) smartly and slowly unravels her tale via the female gaze in a film that, if one is patient with it, slowly pulls you under its sunlit and fainéant spell.

The obscure films / directors mentioned by some of these male geekers shows their inability to consider that most working class female movie goers will never get the opportunity to see Claire Denis or Anges Joui -LRB-(sic) whoever that is) at their local multiplex.

Tither - Kaplan, who has starred in several films directed by Franco, told the LA Times that the actor - director had engaged in an «abuse of power» on the set of his films, alleging that during one sex scene Franco removed protective plastic guards covering the genitalia of female actors while simulating oral sex with them.