Sentences with phrase «many films about women»

Renée Zellweger is the charming modern heroine of this film about a woman deciding which man is right for her, her flirtatious boss Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) or her awkward and handsome family friend, Mark Darcy (Colin Firth).

So when I saw a preview for a film about a woman who finds a dog and he becomes her constant companion I knew I had to see it: Darling Companion.

I think Scorsese was an inspired choice for a film about a woman's independence, because the proceedings avoid being weepy treacle, and are instead quite gritty, like most of his «typical» films.

Intense psychodrama in this Italian film about a woman who recall her past abuse by a pedophilia father.

So, again, films about women can succeed or fail, just as films about men can succeed or fail.

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.

She will next be seen in the Semi Chellas - helmed film American Woman, a film about the women who cared for Patty Hearst.

Greta Gerwig, Julianne Moore and Ethan Hawke star in Rebecca Miller's witty, invigorating film about a woman's attempt to become pregnant

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

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.

Corinealdi is in a film about a woman.

It's so rare to see a film about a woman, written by a woman and directed by a woman do so well during the awards season.

Andie Redwine was honored with The Hoosier Award for her work on «Paradise Recovered,» a film about a woman from a cloistered religious sect forced to view her community from a new perspective, which was partially shot in southern Indiana.

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.

It was clearly sexism that got her the assignment: hire a woman to deal with a film about women.

«FIRE MAY BE SUBTLE» Three leads, two male and one female, are being cast in this short film about a woman whose psyche suffers a major break after the death of her boyfriend.

«It's a film about a woman who refuses to take any... anymore,» he said.

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.

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 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?

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.

-- «Maborosi» (1995): Japanese director Kore - eda Hirokazu's film about a woman dealing with her husband's suicide is a small film with large impact.

So I can't criticize the Cannes film fest for not having more films BY women when there are so many films ABOUT women.

Perhaps some of these directors wanted to make more films about women, and were shut down by studios — but the industry power wielded by many of them suggests that if they had really tried to make more films about women, they would have succeeded.

There's Blue is the Warmest Colour — which seems to be the only kind of film about women the status quo can get behind.

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.

The list is also missing several directors that have only made a single best - picture nominee so far, including people like Denis Villeneuve, Alfonso Cuarón, and Jean - Marc Vallée — all of whom have also made powerful films about women.

«Two Days, One Night,» Dec. 24 Oscar and 2014 New York Film Critics Circle winner Marion Cotillard stars in this Belgian film about a woman who will lose her job if she fails to convince her colleagues to turn down bonuses they all accepted despite knowing she'd be dismissed.

There is a short film that inspired The Nancy Starling (the fictional movie within Their Finest), which is a short film about a woman played by Peggy Ashcroft, who goes to help rescue her husband from Dunkirk (Channel Incident, 1940).

Blue Jasmine Woody Allen's ode to the wreckage of the 1 % is a film about a woman who was the wife of a Wall Street tycoon, a Bernie Madoff type.

And you could even lump The Post in with the cadre of films about women striking back at the patriarchy through Kay Graham's willful choice to ignore the advice of her (male) lawyers and board members and publish the Pentagon Papers.

Sebastián Lelio has made a name for himself as a director not just of films about women but of films about women on the edge.

Of the three current films about women («Moonlight and Valentino» and «How to Make an American Quilt» are the others), this is the least introspective but the most fun.

Yet isn't it funny that a man feels compelled to pose such a question while he is actually directing a film about women?

That's a heartening message to see demonstrated in a film about a woman finding her voice and independence.

I mean, I can't remember the last time I saw a film about a woman who steps into a kiddie park in her hometown and causes a giant reptilian monster to emerge in South Korea.

In fact, I am not sure any of the peripheral names can break through — it is going to depend on Emma Thompson, a wholly beloved and reliable actress, starring a film about the woman who created Mary Poppins.

Films by women, films about women, world cinema and in particularly Asian cinema.

Paul Verhoeven's reputation as a master of provocation was certainly burnished by this French film about a woman — Isabelle Huppert, earning her first Oscar nomination with a performance that's equal parts scary and seductive — who survives a rape in her own home and then spends the rest of the film setting a leisurely trap for her unseen attacker.

It's not a film about women — it's a film about friendship; and a funny and beautiful one at that.

In addition to the films about women this summer, there is a smattering of movies whose casts include women in equal or near - equal roles.

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

In her corner: Reese does her best dramatic work in a very fine moving film about a woman who has let her life slip away But... enthusiasm does nt seem to be there for the film

An incredible, chilling film about a woman who has been kidnapped and locked in a room away from human interaction.

McDonagh also used his stage time to frame the film within the current political climate: «Our film is a hopeful one in lots of ways, but it's also an angry one, and as we've seen this year, sometimes anger is the only way to get people to listen and to change,» He added, «What I'm most proud of, especially in this Time's Up year, is it is a film about a woman who refuses to take any more shit.»

A while back, Amy Schumer was supposed to be starring in a movie called Barbie, a film about a woman who doesn't fit into the world of Barbies.

The fellowship will allow Rahmanian to continue working on a dramatic feature - length film about a woman stranded in the desert with two small children, tentatively titled Snow.

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.

Although Gilbert and Gubar concentrate their analysis on representations of madwomen and monster - women found in classical literature (much of which pre-dates the emergence of popular film), we submit that literature is a foundational antecedent to popular culture writ large, and thus provides fertile ground for exploring the origins of female madwomen and monsters and how they function as a narrative strategy in popular films about women lawyers.

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.