Sentences with phrase «new film about the women»

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The new film «Netizens» details the threats to life and livelihood women endure and what they're doing about it.

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 coNew 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 coNew 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 conew film that made her blood run cold.

A protest took place outside of a Northern Ireland university on Tuesday, which rejected screening a new film about «men and women moving out of homosexual practices and feelings».

Or consider the report by Caryn James in the New York Times on the recent Sundance Film Festival, in which she describes the film Care of the Spitfire Grill as «a manipulatively heartwarming story about a young woman just out of prison who finds spiritual redemption.»

This one was from Kate, who identified herself as an API member from New Hampshire, USA, and the woman about whom the article featured in the film for maybe a couple seconds is about.

Here my latest post, which comes also with a video where I give my oppinion about Miu Miu's new episode of their Women's Tales short film series.

Inspired by, but not adapted from, Roland Barthes, Claire Denis» new film about a single woman living alone in Paris is a sophisticated delight

So when The Hunger Games or Wonder Woman or Black Panther becomes an enormous hit, everybody is utterly shocked (except for those of us who've been clamoring for those films since childhood), and the entertainment journalists write articles about this surprising new development, and explain why it may never happen again.

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.

Hazanavicius has his fun with his smartarse New Wave pastiches, but the core of his film is about how a self - important goon treats a blameless young woman terribly, then gets away with it — having only a lifetime of adulation to look forward to.

This new film reminds me of «All About My Mother» or «Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown».

Flickering Myth's Tai Freligh caught up with Wonder Woman star Connie Nielsen this past week to discuss her role in her new film The Confessions, and also managed to slip in a few questions about her work in the DC Extended Universe, during which Connie shared a funny story about her first meeting with the -LSB-...]

The second of 2015's collaborations with her real - life director boyfriend Noah Baumbach, Mistress America was one of the best films at the Sundance Film Festival, an old - school screwball comedy about a young woman who befriends her dad's new girlfriend.

Stars Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Gugu Mbatha - Raw and Josh Gad together with director Bill Condon open up about the uniqueness of Belle as a Disney princess in the new «Beauty and the Beast» film, how important she is for 21st century women as a role model - industrious, learned and courageous as she is - and why Emma is the perfect choice for the role.

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.

At a press conference held prior to the screening of his new film Men, Women & Children, director Jason Reitman dispelled the notion that the film was about anything other than human connection in the digital age.

He'll drop names from Elia Kazan to Roger Corman, do a mean Hitchcock imitation (he appeared in the director's final film, «Family Plot») and talk about meeting Marilyn Monroe when she sat in on classes at Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio — and being stunned when she suddenly began crying as the two of them were passed by an older woman on a New York street in the early 1960s.

Asante's new film, A United Kingdom, is about the international scandal that erupted when Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana married a white woman in the 1940s, and is scheduled for a 2016 release.

Among the high - profile premieres this year are «Antz,» the new Dreamworks animated film; James Ivory's «A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries,» with Kris Kristofferson playing a character inspired by novelist James Jones; «Dancing at Lughnasa,» starring Meryl Streep in the film of Brian Friel's celebrated play; John Waters» «Pecker,» with Edward Furlong as a fast - food worker whose photos are embraced by the New York art world; Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh in «The Theory of Flight,» about a work - release prisoner assigned to a woman with Lou Gehrig's disease; Ben Stiller as a drug - addicted TV writer in «Permanent Midnight»; Christina Ricci in «Desert Blue,» about slim prospects for a teenager in a town of 89 people; «The Imposters,» the new film by Stanley («Big Night») Tucci, starring Tucci and Oliver Platt as cruise - ship stowaways; «Rushmore,» with Jason Schwartzmann as a prep schooler who is a lousy student but hyperactive in campus activities; Cameron Diaz in «Very Bad Things,» about a bachelor party that ends in murder; Cate Blanchett as «Elizabeth,» the story of England's 16th century monarch, and «The Judas Kiss,» with FBI agent Emma Thompson on the trail of the kidnapper of a computer geninew Dreamworks animated film; James Ivory's «A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries,» with Kris Kristofferson playing a character inspired by novelist James Jones; «Dancing at Lughnasa,» starring Meryl Streep in the film of Brian Friel's celebrated play; John Waters» «Pecker,» with Edward Furlong as a fast - food worker whose photos are embraced by the New York art world; Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh in «The Theory of Flight,» about a work - release prisoner assigned to a woman with Lou Gehrig's disease; Ben Stiller as a drug - addicted TV writer in «Permanent Midnight»; Christina Ricci in «Desert Blue,» about slim prospects for a teenager in a town of 89 people; «The Imposters,» the new film by Stanley («Big Night») Tucci, starring Tucci and Oliver Platt as cruise - ship stowaways; «Rushmore,» with Jason Schwartzmann as a prep schooler who is a lousy student but hyperactive in campus activities; Cameron Diaz in «Very Bad Things,» about a bachelor party that ends in murder; Cate Blanchett as «Elizabeth,» the story of England's 16th century monarch, and «The Judas Kiss,» with FBI agent Emma Thompson on the trail of the kidnapper of a computer geniNew York art world; Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh in «The Theory of Flight,» about a work - release prisoner assigned to a woman with Lou Gehrig's disease; Ben Stiller as a drug - addicted TV writer in «Permanent Midnight»; Christina Ricci in «Desert Blue,» about slim prospects for a teenager in a town of 89 people; «The Imposters,» the new film by Stanley («Big Night») Tucci, starring Tucci and Oliver Platt as cruise - ship stowaways; «Rushmore,» with Jason Schwartzmann as a prep schooler who is a lousy student but hyperactive in campus activities; Cameron Diaz in «Very Bad Things,» about a bachelor party that ends in murder; Cate Blanchett as «Elizabeth,» the story of England's 16th century monarch, and «The Judas Kiss,» with FBI agent Emma Thompson on the trail of the kidnapper of a computer geninew film by Stanley («Big Night») Tucci, starring Tucci and Oliver Platt as cruise - ship stowaways; «Rushmore,» with Jason Schwartzmann as a prep schooler who is a lousy student but hyperactive in campus activities; Cameron Diaz in «Very Bad Things,» about a bachelor party that ends in murder; Cate Blanchett as «Elizabeth,» the story of England's 16th century monarch, and «The Judas Kiss,» with FBI agent Emma Thompson on the trail of the kidnapper of a computer genius.

It's been nearly 20 years since Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn and Diane Keaton starred in the comedy about three women striking back at their ex-husbands and getting what they deserve, and now the trio of actresses will reunited for a new feature film project at Netflix called Divanation.

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.

Julia Stiles stars as the title character in «Blue,» a new web series produced by the YouTube channel Wigs, which is described as «a digital channel producing high - end, original, scripted dramatic series and short films about the lives of women.»

The film's wittier bits indicate Anna's sense of situational irony, like when she misleads a woman at Kate's party by giving her morbidly incorrect details about her sitcom's new season.

Raw combines the body horror of cannibal films with a sexual coming - of - age story about a young woman attending veterinarian school, where a hazing ritual awakens all manner of new appetites.

4:00 pm — TCM — His Girl Friday This is a remake of a 1931 film called The Front Page about newspaper buddies who go after a major story — Hawks took it to a whole new level by turning one of the men into a woman, and setting reporters Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant as a former couple, now divorced who can't seem to stay apart, either personally or professionally.

At a roundtable interview, DeWitt discussed her research for the role, how playing a real - life person informed her approach to the character, what it was like meeting the real Sue Webb, what she enjoyed most about working with Renner, what she learned about journalists and their determination to get to the truth of their story, her new film «Men, Women & Children» directed by Jason Reitman, and her upcoming projects: Joe Swanberg's «Digging for Fire,» Sam Raimi's remake of «Poltergeist» with Sam Rockwell, and a small part in the TV mini-series «Olive Kitteridge.»

Her university thesis film, The Forest For The Trees (2003), is a cringe - comedy character study about a young woman, new in town, who's eager to make friends and completely indifferent to societal standards regarding personal boundaries.

The Orchard has unveiled an official US trailer for Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier's new film Thelma, about a young woman who moves to Oslo and begins to fall in love with another woman, discovering that she also has fantastic, terrifying «super» powers.

«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.

Now that era and time have been re-created in Battle of the Sexes, a terrific new film that isn't just about that infamous match but also equal rights and pay for women as well as the sexual identity crisis King was going through at the time.

I would overhear hushed conversations on the bus about Republican relatives who won't stop gloating; directors would introduce their films, even the most purportedly apolitical, with sly allusions to the new President; a woman even struck up a conversation with me before a screening to complain about the film industry's closed - minded attitude towards her particular brand of libertarianism (I didn't have much to add).

The 26 - year - old actress plays a woman caught up in a passionate lesbian love affair in new film «Sunshine Clearing» and is excited about reaching a new fan base,...

In Mike Cahill's new film, I Origins, there's a scene where atheist scientist Ian (Michael Pitt) is told by an Indian woman of faith about a pujari friend who admitted that if science were to ever invalidate his beliefs, he would accept that reality.

About a third of the way into Duck Butter, Miguel Arteta's latest film — co-written by its star, Alia Shawkat — Naima (Shawkat) tells her new love interest Sergio (a woman, despite the male - sounding name, played by Laia Costa) that she once hooked up with a man who had been her pen pal.

Taylor Schilling (Netflix's «Orange Is the New Black») turns out to be the film's secret weapon, proving herself to be a nimble reactionary performer, and as Emily, the actress makes her a smart woman who knows the night spent with Kurt and Charlotte is about to get weird and yet she's curious enough to see it through.

Suffragette, the new film about the battle for women's rights in England, isn't a definitive history of the movement.

10:00 pm — TCM — His Girl Friday This is a remake of the 1931 film The Front Page about newspaper buddies who go after a major story — Howard Hawks takes it to a whole new level by turning one of the men into a woman, and setting reporters Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant as a former couple, now divorced who can't seem to stay apart, either personally or professionally.

In 2006, Sian Heder, a writer for «Orange Is The New Black,» wrote and directed the short film, «Mother,» about a woman who hires a stranger to babysit her toddler.

«What I like about our festival awards is that we get to watch new films by talented but relatively unknown women filmmakers and we know that our recognition of them will help them be seen by the wider audiences they deserve.

Well, it's just one of the astonishing facts revealed in SUFFRAGETTE, a new film about the early struggle of women to win the right to vote.

In Fiction Factory's brand - new interview feature THE WOMAN IS DANGEROUS, filmmaker Vanessa Wanger Hope talks passionately about her grandparents — Hollywood star Joan Bennett and producer Walter Wanger — and the pair's collaboration with director Fritz Lang on no less than four films: MAN HUNT (1941), THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (1944), SCARLET STREET (1945) and SECRET BEYOND THE DOOR (1947), the latter two produced by Diana Productions, a company founded and run by the star / producer / director trio.

Though Marvel's Black Panther is about the ascension of a new Wakandan king, the film is also largely about the powerful women around T'Challa who are running the show.

Reitman's new film, Men, Women & Children (read Matt's review here), is a dark, dramatic tale of human relationships in the internet age, and while the technology angle is the hook, the film isn't really about that at all.

An article in today's New York Times Sunday Styles section got me thinking about the indie - film phenomenon of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl: a young woman who's beautiful and quirky and perfect in the eyes of the lovestruck, mixed - up guy who falls for her.

His new film is «Crimson Peak,» a Gothic romance about a young American woman (Mia Wasikowska) who marries a mysterious Brit (Tom Hiddleston) and moves to his imposing mansion in the English countryside.

It screens here as part of a series about female filmmakers during the New Hollywood era with Marguerite Paris's short All Women Are Equal (1972), which was among the first films to focus on a trans woman.

Their foray into feature film culminated with «A Woman's Case» (1969), an experimental though narrative film about bohemian lifestyle and art that was heavily influenced by European modernist filmmaking and new wave cinema.

The TV set plays Thomas's moving film about her mother, «Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman,» offering a back story that gives the initially silly pair of shining Crocs a new emotional heft.