There's Blue is the Warmest Colour — which seems to be the only kind
of film about women the status quo can get behind.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Much like the success
of last year's Warner Bros.
film Wonder
Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of c
Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a
woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of c
woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories
about characters
of color.
After more than three dozen
women have come forward to accuse Hollywood
film producer Harvey Weinstein
of sexual assault and harassment, George Clooney and Matt Damon have spoken out
about the powerful Miramax head who helped launch their careers.
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.
All the statistics
about attendees indicate that horror
films are still solid date movies» and, in an American society where an ever - increasing percentage
of young men and
women are staying unmarried longer and having children later, the appeal
of thrills that entertain without forcing one to think too hard is expanded to a larger market.
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.
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».
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.
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.»
As an example, look at this documentary
about men who spend large sums to meet Ukranian
women and bring them back to the U.S. or Australia: http://lovemethedocumentary.com/ The attitude
of the
film makers is very evident.
The day after Lisa Belkin's initial NY Times post she followed up with
About that orgasmic birth... and went into a little more detail about the responses she received, the film and one of the women featured in the
About that orgasmic birth... and went into a little more detail
about the responses she received, the film and one of the women featured in the
about the responses she received, the
film and one
of the
women featured in the
film.
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.
This fall, we held a screening
of the documentary
film «No Mas Bebes»
about the forced sterilization
of Chicana
women at County USC+LAC Hospital in the 1970s.
This
film is all
about empowering
women to realize the tremendous and natural capabilities
of their own bodies without intervention.
It's a
film about a young
woman whose life gets gradually and brutally torn apart for lack
of stable housing.
It is a
film about an old
woman with severe dementia trying to recover from the loss
of her husband.
Schneiderman had been outspoken
about Harvey Weinstein, the
film mogul who became the face
of the #MeToo movement after a series
of women accused him
of sexually assaulting them.
«Secondly, don't believe everything that you read
about movie stars because some
of the
women who've had kids in their late 40s, such as
film stars, have used donor eggs, but they don't tell you that in the article because it's their own private business,» warns Prof Ledger.
Its buzzed -
about oral sex scene almost landed it an NC - 17 rating — until Gosling protested, arguing that if the
film had shown a
woman performing oral sex on a man (instead
of the other way around), it wouldn't have been deemed scandalous.
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.
Model and «Houghton Girl» Chloe Norgaard is one
of nine
women who star in a poignant short
film about body positivity ups and downs.
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.
Pandy «PJ» Wallis is a writer whose novels
about a young
woman making her way in Manhattan have spawned a series
of blockbuster
films.
Keira «s
film Laggies,
about a
woman stuck in permanent adolescence who lies to her fiance, was just given a release date
of September 26, 2014 by its studio, A24.
The icon could be joining the cast
of Little
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Preaching to the Choir seeds adequately in the very fertile genre
of black
films about redemption, but don't expect performances on the level
of last year's Diary
of a Mad Black
Woman or The Preacher's Wife.
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.
The feature, Actors in Search
of a Story, applauds the entire cast
of the
film (right down to the
woman who plays Harold's psychologist for
about two minutes
of screen time), Building the Team profiles director Marc Forster and some
of his crew, and Words on a Page focuses on budding young screenwriter Zach Helm.
1996's The Darien Gap followed — a feature - length effort
about a young man (Lyn Voss, portraying himself) whose persistent dreams
of filming the great Patagonian sloth prevent him from sustaining a relationship with the
woman he loves (Sandi Carroll).
Director Ron Howard brings his usual light touch to the proceedings and manages to hold the viewer's interest even through the narrative's oddly action - packed final third (ie once the truth
about Hannah's character is revealed, the
film becomes more
of a thriller than a cute little romantic comedy and there's even a chase sequence as the army attempts to capture the mermaid /
woman).
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».
When you hear «pre-code
women's prison
film» you may have an impression based other
films, such as «Ladies They Talk
About» (1933), but this one is refreshing in its portrayal
of the inmates.
«Clean» might be a
film in code
about the most infamous
of all rock - and - roll widows, but I hope not, since Allison Anders» «Sugar Town» had already done a fine job
of eviscerating (again, in code) this
woman, who nevertheless, love her or hate her, arguably served the important and underrated function
of muse for the troubled drug - addled musician.
For Tully, Theron gained 50 pounds: she looks pregnant — the baby, Marlo's third, is born shortly into the
film — and then she looks like a
woman who has just given birth and is too exhausted, mentally and physically, what with a newborn and two grade - schoolers to take care
of, to do a damn thing
about «getting into shape.»
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.
I mean, all
of our
women here walk around barefoot, like the rednecks we all are, so if this
film is
about going barefoot, then it must be
about my sweet home.
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.
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.»
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.
That
film truly was
about female empowerment —
about a
woman using every inch
of her body to achieve her goals while also having agency over her fate.
Under the Shadow is a chilling
film about the horrors
of war, the suppression
of women under the guise
of religion, superstition, and the supernatural.
While the
film touches upon its various political and cultural issues (In addition to the give - and - take relationships between reporters and politicians, there's a lot
about the overt and subtle sexism that Kat receives as the first and, at the time, only
woman serving a newspaper publisher), the
film plays mostly and best as a race - against - the - clock thriller
of sorts, in which the obstacles are as imposing as the might
of the U.S. government and as low - key as deadlines or being beaten to a story by a rival paper.
When Tommy's misogyny is on display during a scene
of filming — laughing
about a
woman getting beat up and sent to the hospital, despite being told over multiple takes not to — «The Disaster Artist» doesn't question what's underneath it.