Sentences with phrase «great films about women»

Not exact matches

1996's The Darien Gap followed — a feature - length effort about a young man (Lyn Voss, portraying himself) whose persistent dreams of filming the great Patagonian sloth prevent him from sustaining a relationship with the woman he loves (Sandi Carroll).

This is not to say Jennifer Westfeldt isn't still a remarkable triple threat who creates great films for and about women.

Transactions between the living and the dead are the fabric of the film, which begins conventionally, as a melodrama about two Great War poilus wrangling over the same woman.

As she tells me, Wonder Woman has something in common with that film in that it is a great story about the human dilemma.

The film opens on the island of Themyscira, a paradise island created by the god Zeus and hidden from the real world by a protective shield, and the film stays there for a while as we follow Diana from curious little girl to fully trained warrior princess but once Steve Trevor's fighter plane crashes there and Diana realises there is a war being fought in world she does not know of that is not too far away then we swiftly get brought into London in 1918 and this shift from fantasy into a «real world» scenario gives the film a greater sense of depth, and when combined with characters that you actually care about then Wonder Woman is head and shoulders above all of the other DCEU movies on the strength of that alone.

She also triggers the film's best in - joke, not about the Marvel mythos but about the competition, when Thor comments, «I think it's great there is an elite force of women warriors.

While Kore - eda's vision for this story about a woman's trauma was assuredly original, Roger was particularly excited about the obvious influence from Yasujiro Ozu, a filmmaker that Roger called «one of the four or five greatest film directors of all time.»

La Strada — The great Giulietta Masina stars in this Federico Fellini film about a young woman sold off by her family to be the wife of a traveling strongman, played by a dubbed - into - Italian Anthony Quinn.

At the film's recent press day, Tatum, Bomer, Manganiello, Nash, Rodriguez, Stephen «tWitch» Boss, Jada Pinkett Smith, Amber Heard, Andie MacDowell, Donald Glover, Jacobs and Carolin talked about their favorite moment from the shoot, how the first film inspired the sequel, the decision to cast Pinkett - Smith in a role originally written for a guy, why the male camaraderie was so important to the film, how they fit all the dance routines into the movie, the amazing finale with 900 extras, what they've learned about what women want, and why this is a great date movie.

But Telluride, and Venice before it, offers up so many great roles for women — so many brilliantly told films about real and imaginary women: a gay rising tennis star, a cleaning lady who falls in love with a monster, an aging movie star, a bratty teenager, a young Cambodian girl, and on and on it goes.

A great film about greatness, the story of the horse and the no less brave woman who had faith in him.

This week, Neil Calloway looks at why so many great films were cut by women... You may not have noticed in among all news reports about Jackie Chan being awarded one, but last week Anne V. Coates was given an Honorary Oscar.

Great art it's not — but it's frisky, in charge of itself, and about as keenly felt a vision of this S&M power game we could realistically have expected to see... The film's single biggest asset is Johnson, who has worked hard with Marcel and Taylor - Johnson to perform a three - woman salvage job on the character of Anastasia.

In execution and theme, it reminds a great deal of Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin, another film that is confounding and uncomfortable and essentially about the ugliness of the world in general but especially if you're a woman.

When most people think of Johnny Cash, they think of a gruff man dressed in black that sang about prison life and hard knocks, but after seeing the film, he s transformed into a man of great passion, both for music and for his woman.

What is most exciting about Truth and Carol is that they demonstrate how great films can be when women are given more to do than prop up, turn on, or bitch at the male characters.

2008 was a great year both for films helmed by women and films about women at the Sundance film festival.

And yet the fact remains that I saw a great deal of movies this year and loved very few of them, in part because so many of the prestige pictures («Boyhood,» «Birdman») left me cold, and in part because it was such an excruciatingly paltry year for films about girls and women.

We're very excited for Angela Robinson's upcoming film about the story behind the greatest female icon in comics, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, which arrives in theaters next week from Annapurna Pictures!