Sentences with phrase «includes women film»

During the past ten years, AWFJ has also hosted screenings of films by and about women, presented and served on panels at film festivals and other events, expanded our membership base to include women film journalists in Canada and the UK, mentored young women film journalists and offered them publishing opportunities, forged alliances with other groups concerned about disparities pertaining to women and film and raised awareness within the industry and in the public arena about the need for change.

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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.
So, the studio's biggest question mark of the year will be November's Justice League, which will bring together several superheroes from that universe of films, including Wonder Woman as well as Batman and Superman.
The women included Gennette Cordova, 21, the college student; Ginger Lee, 24, a former pornographic film actress from Tennessee who exchanged over 100 e-mails with the congressman; and a Delaware high school student, 17, whose family said she exchanged five private messages with Mr. Weiner that did not include indecent or explicit material.
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.
The Writers Guild of America East is urging state lawmakers to expand New York's successful film and television tax credit program to include incentives for hiring women and people of color.
In a film dominated by men, she does her best to include the revealing glances of the women around them.
In Media and Entertainment, her focus is on various programs to provide women opportunities in film and onstage, including a $ 5M fund for women filmmakers and playwrights.
The Bearded Lady Project: Challenging the Face of Science shows how leading women paleontologists, including collaborator and the film's main subject, Ellen Currano, dealt with gender bias — intentional and unintentional — to achieve professional success.
During these studies, their heart rate variability and sexual functioning (specifically physiological arousal and overall sexual function, which includes domains like lubrication, pain, and satisfaction) were measured while the women watched a neutral film clip followed by an erotic one.
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.
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She appeared in a number of series, including the popular crime drama Cracker and such costume extravaganzas as Jane Eyre and Emma.Morton became known to an international film audience in 1997, when she won wide acclaim for her wrenching, fearless portrayal of a young woman driven to promiscuous behavior by the death of her mother in Carine Adler's Under the Skin.
And you're choosing to ignore all the female - centered dramas and comedies that have been SUCCESSFUL compared to budget: Lady Bird, Winter's Bone, Wild, Girls Trip, Trainwreck, Bridesmaids, Mean Girls, Clueless, Pitch Perfect, and on and on (not including the huge box office of the female - led action / sci - fi / Disney films like Frozen, Hunger Games, Gravity, Wonder Woman, etc).
Danes» other film credits include Matthew Vaughn's STARDUST opposite Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer; Lajos Koltai's EVENING, opposite Toni Collette, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Natasha Richardson, and Vanessa Redgrave; Thomas Bezucha's THE FAMILY STONE, opposite Diane Keaton and Sarah Jessica Parker; Jonathan Mostow's TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES, opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger and Nick Stahl; Stephen Daldry's Academy Award ® winning drama THE HOURS, opposite Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Allison Janney, Ed Harris, and Toni Collette; Jonathan Kaplan's BROKEDOWN PALACE, opposite Kate Beckinsale; Bille August's LES MISERABLES; Theresa Connelly's POLISH WEDDING; Francis Ford Coppola's THE RAINMAKER, opposite Danny DeVito and Matt Damon; Oliver Stone's U TURN, opposite Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, and Joaquin Phoenix; Michael Pressman's TO GILLIAN ON HER 37th BIRTHDAY, opposite Michelle Pfeiffer and Peter Gallagher; Jocelyn Moorhouse's HOW TO MAKE AN AMERICAN QUILT, opposite Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, and Ellen Burstyn; Billy Hopkins» I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU NOT, opposite Jude Law; Jodie Foster's HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, opposite Robert Downey Jr., Holly Hunter, and Anne Bancroft; and Gillian Armstrong's LITTLE WOMEN, opposite Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon, and Kirsten Dunst.
Plus, you now include Alliance of women, okay... and Online film & Television Association?
In this charming film, British actress Claire Bloom takes an insightful look at the art of Shakespearean acting with rich portrayals of many of Shakespeare's most memorable women including Portia, Rosalind, Imogen and Juliet.
2017 was a landmark year for superhero cinema, with amazing films including The LEGO Batman Movie, Logan, Wonder Woman, Spider - Man: Homecoming, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
The British Irons has an extraordinary legacy of film, television, and theatre performances including: THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT»S WOMAN, in which he starred opposite Meryl Streep; THE MISSION; and David Cronenberg's DEAD RINGERS.
Nearly all of the women in the film turn out terrific performances, including Kelly Preston (From Dusk Till Dawn) as Cruise's sassy former fiancee Avery, and Bonnie Hunt (Jumanji, Only You) as Zellweger's well - meaning sister Laurel.
In addition to her work on film, Huston accumulated an impressive roster of television credits during the 1980s and»90s, including her powerful performances as frontier woman Clara Allen in the 1989 miniseries Lonesome Dove and the beleaguered mother of an autistic child in the two - part Family Pictures (1993).
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.
But I'm sticking with my feeeling that «ÄúThe Hurt Locker «Äù will pull this one out — that for a variety of reasons, including the simple fact that she made the better movie, Kathryn Bigelow will become the first woman to ever win the DGA feature film award.
In fact, eight of the ten movies I included in my top ten of the festival were led by a female performance, five of the ten films were directed by women.
Major highlights making their world premieres include Shawn Levy's all - star ensemble drama «This Is Where I Leave You,» starring Jane Fonda, Jason Bateman and Tina Fey; Michael R. Roskam's «The Drop,» which features James Gandolfini's final performance; Liv Ullman's film adaptation of the famed play «Miss Julie,» starring Jessica Chastain; David Gordon Green's latest indie drama «Manglehorn,» featuring Al Pacino; the musical «The Last 5 Years,» starring Anna Kendrick; Noah Baumbach's latest «While We're Young,» starring Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts and Amanda Seyfried; and Jason Reitman's «Men, Women & Children,» starring Adam Sandler.
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).
They include an alternate opening of Carol doing an voice exercise with an annoyingly - voiced woman interviewing her in a bookstore, more of and on Dani and Moe's rocky marriage, a scene featuring an accomplished female voiceover artist (played by Melissa Disney), and a number of additional clips from the convincing fake reality dating TV show woven throughout the film,
Top ten films might include Wonder Woman or Blade Runner 2049.
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.
The film does its best and goes out of its way to include almost every character from properties Warner Bros. owns — Lord Voldemort from Harry Potter, Eye of Sauron from Lord of the Rings, and even The Flash, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern make appearances.
INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Bordertown (R for sexuality, nudity, profanity, and violence, including a brutal rape) Jennifer Lopez stars in this fact - based thriller about an American journalist who goes undercover to investigate the murders of hundreds of women near U.S. - owned factories located in a Mexican town just across the border.
Some of these movies include «Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping,» a comedy film starring Andy Samberg, which is now in theaters and the longevity of which at the box office remains to be seen; «Central Intelligence,» another comedy which stars Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson and which will be released on June 17; and «The Shallows,» a movie about a woman trying to escape a shark which stars Blake Lively.
Beyond Winslet, women hardly factor at all (including a wasted Teresa Palmer), which easily aligns Triple 9 with Hillcoat's previous films like Lawless (2012), The Road (2009) and The Proposition (2005).
Participant's more than 80 films, including Spotlight, Contagion, Lincoln, The Help, He Named Me Malala, The Look of Silence, CITIZENFOUR, Food, Inc. and An Inconvenient Truth, have collectively earned 56 Academy Award ® nominations and 12 wins, including Best Picture for Spotlight and Best Foreign Language Film for A Fantastic Woman.
The supporting cast is equally impressive including actress Lauren Bacall and Anne Heche as a scheming woman whose connection to Anna and Sean remains a well - guarded mystery for most of the film, but favorite character actors like Peter Stormare and Ted Levine are underused.
And this year promises further films, including female - fronted blockbusters such as Wonder Woman, Beauty and the Beast, Alien: Covenant and Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
The disc is packed with extras, including some deleted scenes that add very little, a blooper reel and a featurette detailing how Wonder Woman fits in with Batman and Superman as a DC flagship character that are all fairly throwaway, but there are a few neat production featurettes that detail how director Patty Jenkins approached making what could have been a potential disaster given the negativity towards the DCEU's previous movies, and also interesting effects details about the lighting, costumes and the chosen colour palette that may not sound like much but actually prove to be quite enlightening about the whole filming process.
The five films includings includes re-mastered editions of «Rain or Shine» (1930), and four early collaborations with his legendary leading lady Barbara Stanwyck: «Ladies of Leisure» (1930), «The Miracle Woman» (1931), «Forbidden» (1932) and «The Bitter Tea of General Yen» (1933).
Their film is zippy and funny but also layered with a let's - all - get - along message that feels more relevant and engaged than your average kids» movie (including feminist gags about not calling women animals «cute»).
An enduring champion of the motion picture arts, Audi nurtures new and established voices through its support of AFI FEST and beyond, including the Audi Fellowship for Women at the AFI Conservatory, a new full - tuition scholarship investing in the future of female directors in film and television.
The film features a fierce group of Wakandan women, including Nakia (Academy Award ® winner Lupita Nyong» o), a War Dog and Wakandan spy; Shuri (Letitia Wright), T'Challa's little sister and tech wizard; and the Dora Milaje, the all - female Wakandan Special Forces led by Okoye (Danai Gurira).
You could call it a propaganda piece, an uplifting film about sacrifice and duty in the face of war that celebrates the service of Britain's men in war and the endurance of the women (including Celia Johnson as Coward's wife) left behind.
The decision to wear black was orchestrated by powerful British women in film and yesterday, a group of actresses from the UK and Ireland, including Saoirse Ronan, who pledged their support for the new UK Justice and Equality Fund in an open letter published in The Observer.
Etheria Film Night screens an annual showcase of the best new horror, science fiction, fantasy, action, dark comedy, and thriller films directed by women for an audience including producers, managers, show runners, distributors, and genre fans.
To meet this challenge, Women In Film and Sundance Institute have come together with over 50 Hollywood leaders and influencers, including studio heads, agency partners, senior network executives, and talent and guild representatives, to further gender parity at every level in film, TV, and media.
Our team — comprised of associates, contributors, editors, graphic artists, web techs, and interns — collaborate on daily content aimed at bringing attention to films made by womenincluding small «indies» and foreign language films — and thereby celebrating their accomplishments in the entertainment industry.
In 2017, the HFPA had a chance to nominate a number of great directors, including Bigelow (Detroit), Dee Rees (Mudbound), Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman) and, arguably the biggest snub of all, Greta Gerwig, who saw her Lady Bird screenplay and film get nominated... but not her work directing it.
The trailer for the John Curran - directed film stars Jason Clarke as Kennedy and Kate Mara as Kopechne as well as a roster of actors portraying all the WASPy figures involved in the event including Bruce Dern as the senator's domineering father Joseph Kennedy, Ed Helms as Joe Gargan, Jim Gaffigan as DA Paul Markham, and Olivia Thirlby as one of the «boiler room girls,» a group of single women who worked Bobby Kennedy's 1968 Presidential campaign, which ended with his assassination.
But it is Muriel's deft combination of high modernism and leftist critique — bearing out Gilles Deleuze's comment that Resnais and Straub - Huillet are the most political filmmakers — that has influenced so many subsequent films, including Michael Haneke's Caché and, most extensively, Jean - Luc Godard's 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, which JLG called a «partner» to the Resnais, and which features a poster of Muriel as homage, also condemns a criminal war (Vietnam), and similarly parallels a portrait of a woman with that of a city under urban renovation.
«We wanted to offer all options for The Woman, so as well as making a great steelbook edition, we also put out an «entry level» DVD and Blu - ray, both of which contained the same extras (including two new commentaries and a new digital transfer of the film), so people don't feel cheated if they «only» buy the DVD.»
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