Sentences with phrase «of films about women»

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.

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.

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.

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

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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 cWoman 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 cwoman 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.

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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.

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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.