Sentences with phrase «movies about women»

Do you think the recent spate of books and movies about women's friendship romanticize the relationship as we used to romanticize men — women relationships?

Do you think the recent spate of books and movies about women's friendship romanticize the relationship as we used to romanticize men - women relationships?

History teaches us that movies about women and made by women aren't allowed to fail.

I don't buy into the philosophy that only women should make movies about women or women's issues, or that only members of a given minority group should be allowed to make movies about that same minori...

That film was not one of my favorites because I am uncomfortable with movies about women where empowerment is all there is to it.

Not only are women capable of knocking out opponents in the ring, but movies about women boxers can also win Best Picture — as Million Dollar Baby did.

Greene includes the interaction as if to ask: Should men even make movies about women?

Most movies about women hanging out inevitably turn to singing into hairbrushes.

But movies about women have a funny way of disappearing from the Best Picture race, because the tastes we're dealing with across - the - board tend to be male.

Even movies that have a female main character are often difficult to get made, but, as Cate Blanchett, who won the best actress award for «Blue Jasmine,» said pointedly during her acceptance speech, people do go to see movies about women.

While it's true that nobody wants to see Nicole Kidman pout her way through a brain - dead remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers or Jodie Foster turning vigilante, people will show up for good movies about women who kill with bows, arrows and grit.

In case you've been wondering why it's so difficult to get movies about women made you don't have to look any further than 2014's 67th Cannes Film Festival.

When the film premiered at Sundance this year, Gerwig made a revealing comment about why it's important to advocate that women write movies about women, saying, «I did go to a women's college, so I'm going to quote Virginia Woolf, who said that «Only women know what women are like when they're alone.»

But if they don't — if any of these powerful movies about women get snubbed for best picture, or the women that anchor them get left out of the best - actress race in favor of films that won't make a dent in any other category (I see you, Victoria & Abdul)-- it might be time for a serious intervention.

And all of a sudden, we have women making movies about women who basically weren't acknowledged within pop culture prior to the last three years.

Movies about women upending the patriarchy are mushrooming, and they account for some of the year's best.

That's quite a revealing pattern that hopefully should go a long way toward debunking the persistent, pervasive and downright pesky Hollywood myth that movies about women are somehow a risk.

«It is incumbent on women producers to make movies about women for a variety of reasons.

Go to the Cannes Film Festival if you want to see movies about women as people rather than women as mattresses, eye - candy or ego - propper - uppers.

I don't know that the studios are yet on board with the idea that we can make movies about women.

Why not also blame male filmgoers, for not being interested in movies about women?

I guess the Twilight movies and «Fifty Shades of Grey» are about a woman but are these the «movies about women» you want leading your ROI charge?

It didn't look at * movies about women *.

Part of the problem — a * BIG * part of the problem — with getting movies made about women, which is what MaryAnn has been saying she's desperate for for something like a decade now is that when a brilliantly - written, brilliantly - produced movie about women is made and gets very strong reviews, women don't go and see it.

This is a good movie about women and the workplace, it has an excellent cast, and it's funny too.

Perfect is a trashy movie about women jumping up and down in leotards, but it's also more (and less) than that, a look at the wages of the free press.

No, this is a movie about women over a certain age made specifically for... women over a certain age.

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.

Filmmaker Sean Durkin, whose most significant credit was the art house movie about a woman escaping a cult, «Martha Marcy May Marlene,» is reportedly set to direct.

«Nobody Walks» is a movie about a woman who listens but doesn't hear.

It's a film that disdains the hysterical screeching of Divine Secrets of the Ya - Ya Sisterhood in favour of pleasant understatement and measured response — the rare movie about women that respects them while offering some genuinely funny moments based on character rather than absurd situations.

«My Happy Family»: We'll have a longer review on this beautiful film in a few days, but this movie about a woman trying to divorce her family is like if «Krisha» spiked the punch at «My Big Fat Greek Wedding.»

Breaking In (May 11): Gabrielle Union's movie about a woman hell - bent on revenge after her daughter is captured has the summer's best tagline: «Payback is a mother.»

The First Wives Club was a major success story for so many reasons: an original mainstream comedy, a movie about women over 50, a movie that recognized the comedic potential of actresses like Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, and Goldie Hawn... with every year that goes by, the movie seems more and more like a miracle.

He said, «I would say it's a movie about a woman who returns home and every time she drinks, a monster attacks South Korea.»

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.

It's a movie about a woman and her dog, about the love that can happen between a human being and an animal.

Now here is a movie about a woman who is beautiful, sunny, good and pure, and inspires a remarkable array of creeps to fall in love with her.

TV's still very very bad for women writers; when violence = commitment; a movie about women as people and

This Best Picture winner is way more than just a movie about a woman who falls in love with a fish creature.

Worth nothing: this is also yet another movie about a woman choosing between two brothers (Sabrina being the first)-- Hollywood!

And it was clear from the trailer that Three Billboards was a movie about a woman fed up with the world's injustice in general and her own town's specifically; McDonagh had been working on the screenplay for years, but its arrival seemed perfectly timed for the end of 2017.

A war movie about a woman and her dog appeared to be a concept that's equal parts adorable and heartbreaking.

But «Barbara» is also a movie about a woman making the kind of hard choices that nearly anyone should be able to recognize.

So it turns out that the Oscars did nominate a movie about a woman who spins out an elaborate fantasy out of the things she glimpses as a commuter train goes by the same spot every day.

In the era of #MeToo and #Time's Up, it hardly seems like the moment for a movie about a woman who does the sexual bidding of a powerful rich dude.

The Women Film Critics Circle has chosen Lady Bird as the Best Movie About Women of 2017, also rewarding the film with their Best Movie By a Woman and Best Woman Storyteller screenwriting award.

Best Actor Eddie Redmayne (The Danish Girl) Best Actress Carey Mulligan (Suffragette) Best Movie about Women...

CHANG: A victory for «The Salesman» looks extremely possible, even though I'm still very much rooting for «Toni Erdmann» — and I hasten to add that an award for a female - directed movie about a woman being slowly worn down by sexist, conformist workplace culture is hardly an apolitical choice.

This is that rare American specimen, a strong movie about women.