Sentences with phrase «make films about women»

Filmmaker Barbara Hammer is a pioneer in the field of lesbian films, known for touring the United States, Africa and Europe in the 1970s to make films about women and the lesbian experience, works that exploded traditional notions of female sexuality.

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.

It is exceptional that Ford has made a film about a woman that spends the bulk of the runtime sitting on her couch (or bed, or in the bath) reading a book, into one of the most compellingly «lean - in» films of the year.

I just made a film about women, with women protagonists... I decided that I'd made enough films about violent men, and I wanted to do a film with only women in the film, and so I did this story because my wife would only go to L.A. if we had to travel out of Copenhagen.

Kudos again to Vanderbilt for sticking to the story, and not making it a film about a woman trying to have a career and a family.

Not exact matches

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.

So let's say this movie is about a woman whose life was shaped by love of her father; the making of the film Mary Poppins (as well as the writing of the book) is about her coming to terms with the truth about personal love and death and all that.

If you ask for the reason of such an article, maybe you should know that there are plenty of supposed experts who would use such a film, made by filmmakers and promoted by promotional people, as «scientific evidence» to «educate» pregnant women and couples about the risks of medicalized birth.

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 women.

A documentary made about Okinawa showed a 100 year old villager with better fitness levels than an entire film crew less than half her age, a 96 year old martial artist who beat a 36 year old boxing champion (on national American television live) and even a 105 year old woman who easily killed poisonous snakes.

Pandy «PJ» Wallis is a writer whose novels about a young woman making her way in Manhattan have spawned a series of blockbuster films.

Like most Wilde plays, it has been made into film and for television numerous times, although this version isn't a strict adaptation, causing the name to be changed, rightfully, to use a part of the play's secondary title, «A Play About a Good Woman».

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.»

She is currently developing a feature film about women's fear of commitment, for which her short film, Loose Ends, is currently making festival rounds.

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.»

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.

Witherspoon noted, that now there's talk about «seeing a more dynamic woman on film» and explained «I think this is just the beginning, and we hope to continue that and even make it more diverse and make it more inclusive, make it more look like the world really looks.

At the same time, his daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz), a minor who just turned 17, is starting an affair with a sixty - something film director (John Malkovich) who is legendary for his skill and productivity but also notorious for making films about older men having affairs with much younger women and doing the same thing in real life.

During our discussion, we talked about how long she has to sit in the make - up chair to apply Okoye's tattoos, how she got inducted into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, her relationship with the other women in the film, comic book research, and what Wakanda thinks about the Winter Soldier.

During this 1 - on - 1 phone interview with Collider, actress and filmmaker Heather Graham talked about wanting to make a movie celebrating women and friendship, the biggest challenges in getting this film going, having her voice heard, as a female filmmaker, what she most enjoyed about playing Honey, putting together this cast, funny moments on set, what she enjoyed about the experience of directing, her hope to do it again, juggling three different writing projects, and doing the British TV series Bliss, from David Cross.

So I'll use this opportunity to sing the praises of something I'm much less surprised but no less disappointed didn't make our list: Gett: The Trial Of Viviane Amsalem, a thorny Israeli film about a married woman (Ronit Elkabetz, who also co-wrote and co-directed) attempting to secure a divorce against her prideful husband's wishes — a real uphill battle with Israeli law, which is fundamentally stacked against her.

Tehran Taboo This handsomely animated film, much of it set in the libertine underworld of Tehran, makes an unassailable point about the hardships of life in today's Iran, mostly involving sexual morality and the status of women.

Little Women» is a moving film about the making of a sensitive writer and the maturation of a small - town girl who transcends her milieu and at the same time retains its heritage.

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.

For a film about a woman who enjoys the the act of sex without actually being able to achieve orgasm, it's fittingly ironic how The Oh in Ohio manages to make us sense amusement without actually getting us to laugh out loud.

We honor these men for showing respect to and demonstrating appreciation for women who make films and for women who write about them.

Then again, he also says of Swept Away, «It's very fresh — they don't make films about slapping women anymore,» leading the viewer to wonder if he's really got his finger on the pulse.

The textured range of daughters, mothers, step - relatives, and friends rings vividly true — with Russell clearly invigorated to make a film so about women.

Set in WWII - era, Japanese - occupied Shanghai and Hong Kong, Ang Lee's 2007 film Lust, Caution is a suspenseful erotic thriller about the sacrifices one woman makes for the survival of her country.

And while most screenwriters or directors would make that the entire premise of their film, Holofcener proves once again why her films feature some of the most satisfying and well drawn observations about men and women and how they relate.

by Walter Chaw Three short films about three women and the men who mistreat them, Rebecca Miller's DV triptych Personal Velocity: Three Portraits is a fine - looking film that plays a little like Catherine Breillat - lite — a series of iterations of Yeats's «Leda and the Swan» that suggest the evil that men do to women only makes women stronger.

Since Hollywood refuses to make clever, engaging films about strong 50 - something women, leave it to Chile to give us a movie to celebrate.

Also on this podcast you'll also hear Karina Longworth talking about the Golden Age of Hollywood, Slate culture writer Aisha Harris (host of the show Represent) on the importance of representation of women and people of color in Hollywood and film awards, actor Paul Scheer on some of the worst movies ever made (which he talks about on his own podcast that he co-hosts with his wife, actress June Diane Raphael, and their pal and fellow actor, Jason Mantzoukas.

There's a lot about this film that makes me think Richard Curtis is a misogynist hiding in plain sight, and it's not just that the women in Tim's family randomly don't share the gift of time travel the men have.

squanders an interesting opening on a generic action finale there's nothing offensively terrible about it.This is a low - budget (8 million dollars) original sci - fi concept starring two women and multiple people of color, there's credit to be given to Scott Free Productions, 20th Century Fox, and Scott for producing a movie that seemed to approach film - making exactly the way it should be done with diversity.

But with its flat presentation and dearth of any riveting moments, the film plays more like an after - school special about the pitfalls of teen decision - making than it does a documentary about young women struggling to make something more of their lives.

Although Morgan squanders an interesting opening on a generic action finale there's nothing offensively terrible about it.This is a low - budget (8 million dollars) original sci - fi concept starring two women and multiple people of color, there's credit to be given to Scott Free Productions, 20th Century Fox, and Scott for producing a movie that seemed to approach film - making exactly the way it should be done with diversity.

It was one of those rare times when a major film studio — United Artists, in this case — allowed him to make pretty much anything he wanted, even a sophisticated and very personal British movie about an openly gay Jewish doctor sharing his lover with a woman.

One of the best films to premiere last year, Western is probably also the best film since Claire Denis's Beau Travail to be made by a woman about men (indeed, about men who are without women, most of the time).

Selected by Chile to represent the country in the Best Foreign Language category at the Oscars, this moving, funny, very human film about a middle - aged woman and the obstacles that prevent a full and rich love life has a terrific shot at making the final five nominees.

The film makes solid points about the feminist case against firearms, then scrutinises these a little more closely, and backs its agenda up with its roles for women — Alison Pill's opposition turncoat is another case in point.

The Criterion debut of the film features a new video interviews with Ballhaus and the original featurette «Outsiders» featuring new interviews with actors Margit Carstensen, Eva Mattes, Katrin Schaake, and Hanna Schygulla, plus a new interview with film scholar Jane Shattuc about director Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the film, and the 1992 documentary Role Play: Women on Fassbinder, originally made for German TV and featuring interviews with Carstensen, Schygulla, and actors Irm Hermann and Rosel Zech.

The film isn't about the central issue at stake; it's simply a character - study of one woman going through life who decides to make a specific choice when faced with a difficult situation.

Lynch talked about his excitement to make a film starring a badass woman and «strong female character» which he said shouldn't even be a term any more as a female ought just to be allowed to be a «strong character.»

I like Suffragette just fine but in no way does its topic (women's voting rights) make it a better film about women than say Carol or Brooklyn or even less high profile pictures like Grandma or I'll See You In My Dreams or Mustang you know?

He went on to say that the film industry was, «so clueless about women, we made a movie called What Women Want and it starred Mel Gibson.&rwomen, we made a movie called What Women Want and it starred Mel Gibson.&rWomen Want and it starred Mel Gibson.»

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.