Sentences with phrase «on women in film»

An open letter signed by 190 actors had called on women in the film industry to wear black and to «use our power as communicators and connectors to shift the way society sees and treats us.

In Black & White: The Women (published on Parallax View here) The first of two articles on women in film, this one stepping off from a review of Molly Haskell's From Reverence to Rape By Kathleen Murphy

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The film has not only put a long deserved spotlight on the team of African - American women who literally charted the course that would eventually put man on the moon, but it has also inspired many young women to pursue interests in STEM.

Parker faces renewed criticism after details of his 2001 trial on charges of raping a college classmate resurfaced earlier this week, and it was disclosed that the 18 - year - old woman who accused Parker and the film's co-writer, Jean Celestin, of raping her had committed suicide in 2012.

The woman claimed she was filming the incident in order to document the crime, but the prosecutor on the case said that she «got caught up in the likes.»

Among them: assertions that Hogan filed the lawsuit to hide racist comments made on video, that the woman who Hogan had sex with knew it was being filmed, and that Hogan participated in an FBI investigation and sting because he was being extorted.

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.

She has a keen understanding of her place in Hollywood, right now — as one of the breakout stars of a beloved sitcom; as the most fascinating character on Legion, one of current TV's most fascinating shows; as a high - profile woman in an industry currently under an enormous amount of scrutiny for how it treats women; and as an actress building a singularly astonishing resume of excellent, low - flying indie oddball films like Ingrid Goes West and Safety Not Guaranteed.

The film premiered in 2008 just before California voters were to vote on Proposition 8, the California ballot proposition stating that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid.

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.

Phoenix went on to point out how the Church has often painted Mary Magdelene as a prostitute — in fact, Pope Gregory claimed she was a prostitute in 591 — and said he hopes the film provides a different lens for people to view women in the Church.

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.»

On Thursday, «Donor Milk: The Documentary,» a film that explores the health benefits of donor milk for premature babies like Jayden through the stories of women who donate it, will be shown at the York Theatre in Elmhurst.

So if we can increase the percentage of women working behind the scenes on films, not only will women's voices be heard more, but we'll see a result on - screen in an increase in the percentage of female characters.

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Plot: The film set in post-WWII Germany and focuses on a warcrime trial of the former lover of a law student Michael Berg nearly a decade after his affair with the older woman ended.

Laptops are allowed in the Italian Parliament, where MPs have recently been filmed variously surfing scantily - clad young women, and, on another occasion, making bookings for an upcoming holiday.

In Media and Entertainment, her focus is on various programs to provide women opportunities in film and onstage, including a $ 5M fund for women filmmakers and playwrightIn Media and Entertainment, her focus is on various programs to provide women opportunities in film and onstage, including a $ 5M fund for women filmmakers and playwrightin film and onstage, including a $ 5M fund for women filmmakers and playwrights.

«He has previously described the Prime Minister as a dead woman walking who is on death row, and compared the Prime Minister to the living dead in a second - rate horror film.

A former politics lecturer is in hot water for being caught on film appearing to don an orange bra with a studded leather jacket, smoking a cigarette in his underwear, snorting white powder from a woman's breasts and allegedly making rude comments about the prime minister.

The researchers were able to demonstrate, for instance, that factors responsible for hypertrophy — enlargement of cardiac cells for instance in athletes and pregnant women — also led to a growth in volume in the cardiac cells that had been cultured on a film of eADF4 (κ16).

Building on her strong commitment to mentoring, Meyer will also use the fellowship to produce a short documentary film highlighting the work of women in coral reef research.

I did a film that's on YouTube of me reading hate mail with a woman playing the cello in the background.

This modern female icon is an exceptional combination of beauty and brains who became one of the most envied women on the planet when she married film star George Clooney in 2014 — but frankly, we think HE is the lucky one!

Kate Upton and Leslie Mann, stars of the upcoming film «The Other Woman» shopping together at Colette boutique in Paris on April 5, 2014

In the study, researchers filmed women walking for four minutes in heels and in flat shoes, then asked men and women to judge them based on attractiveness and femininitIn the study, researchers filmed women walking for four minutes in heels and in flat shoes, then asked men and women to judge them based on attractiveness and femininitin heels and in flat shoes, then asked men and women to judge them based on attractiveness and femininitin flat shoes, then asked men and women to judge them based on attractiveness and femininity.

The film, which hits theaters February 16, is a modern twist on a romantic comedy (boy and girl meet, fall in love, but then break up, and are suddenly reunited, ending up in that awkward stage where they have to debate whether to wave hello while taking out the trash), but it's also a particularly female spin on the coming of age story, the likes of which we're only beginning to see onscreen as more women carve out a place for themselves in writer's rooms and director's chairs.

The film begins with the first female hominoid, treads through the egalitarian neolithic era, past the ancient age of literacy, and into the roots of the patriarchy: a world that values men on a higher level than women because of the need for physical strength in agriculture and military force.

Just at the comfort of fingertips a cub or a sugar momma could find somebody to spend a good time with The celebrities popular and famous women in the film industry have set the precedence for the ordinary ladies to take on the dating of cubs.

Many blockbuster films have featured a down - on - her - luck lady, from Julia Roberts in «Pretty Woman» to Jennifer Lopez in «Maid in Manhattan,» who meets a wealthy individual by chance, wins him over with her charms, and lives happily ever after.

Features and news on arts, music, film, books and entertainment in Japan and overseas, as well as listings for concerts, film, art, stage, events and Dating in Japan is not the same for foreign men and women.

Stars will be invited to carry red fans at Spains most prestigious cinema awards ceremony in Madrid on Saturday evening as part of the MasMujeres (More Women) campaign highlighting the inequality in the Spanish film.

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've never actually seen «Lady Windermere's Fan» performed, on stage or on film, but I'll guess that, given its numerous adaptations over the years, that it is generally delivered in a much funnier and respectable fashion than it is in A Good Woman.

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.

The use of the chador in Under the Shadow is one example of how the film successfully manages to be both a serious reflection on the position of women in Iran and an intensely creepy horror film.

Perhaps in the early 1930s when the film is set, things were not so radically different for women than they were in the early, pre-suffragette 1890s when Oscar Wilde wrote his play — but, without wishing to suggest that the battle of the sexes is now definitely over, things have certainly moved on, and the film's preoccupations with womanly virtue and womanly repute is of more historical interest than contemporary relevance, leaving the distinct impression that this «updating» of Wilde has been done only by half measures.

They've taken one of the most glamorous actresses of the modern era — a woman whose looks have been abstracted into hubba - hubba caricature in most films, and on awards shows — and ironically restored her earthliness by having her play a creature not of this earth.

Although not known for enjoying interviews, Clifford was keenly interested in film history and made appearances in two documentaries on the subject: the 1984 Ulster Television program A Seat in the Stars: The Cinema and Ireland and historian Anthony Slide's ground - breaking The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors.

It was also excellent marketing that drew in all the WOMEN who love space and rockets, who devour science fiction, who flocked to all the Star Wars and Star Trek films when they were growing up, who fought hard to be part of NASA's astronaut program, and on and on.

Then there's a piece of seemingly useless dating advice — «all the best woman have been waitresses,» his dad says with a wink — which the film quietly, slyly and repeatedly goes on to suggest may in fact have been wise beyond measure.

Kang goes on to write, «[Director and writer Martin] McDonagh says he created Mildred in part as a corrective: He was «conscious» that his previous films, «In Bruges» and «Seven Psychopaths,» were bereft of meaty roles for women.&raquin part as a corrective: He was «conscious» that his previous films, «In Bruges» and «Seven Psychopaths,» were bereft of meaty roles for women.&raquIn Bruges» and «Seven Psychopaths,» were bereft of meaty roles for women.»

Washington also turned in powerful performances in a number of other films, such as Mississippi Masala (1991), as a man in love with an Indian woman; Philadelphia (1993), as a slightly homophobic lawyer who takes on the cause of an AIDS - stricken litigator (Tom Hanks); and Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), as a 1940s private detective, Easy Rawlins.

Set at the end of the 19th century, the film stars Kodi Smit - McPhee as Jay Cavendish, a 16 - year - old boy on a journey across the American frontier in search of the woman he loves (Caren Pistorius).

The film's most memorable moments belong to Streep's sometimes awkwardly sympathetic character as she enters yet another boardroom populated by men or, later in the story, when she emerges from the Supreme Court to find a sea of upturned faces of young women there to cheer her on.

He takes on women in a new way in this film, all the characters have a natural and profound depth.

The fun in this concept was already congealed on the page and the film's forced antics are painful and embarrassing to women, Latins, everyone.

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In that film, a young woman on the verge of entering a permanent union found herself in circumstances that allowed her a brief escape that could also have been an epiphanIn that film, a young woman on the verge of entering a permanent union found herself in circumstances that allowed her a brief escape that could also have been an epiphanin circumstances that allowed her a brief escape that could also have been an epiphany.

After the painfully one - sided sexual adventure of the first film, in which she met Christian and was brutally exposed to his odd habits, and after Christian's even nastier control - freakishness in the ill - conceived «50 Shades Darker,» Ana is at last able to demand to hold the reins from time to time — a narrative turn that manages to frame their marriage as an empowering structure for women: now enclosed in the gilded cage of their union, Ana can pull on the rope that Christian had tied around her neck.