Sentences with phrase «powerful films about women»

The list is also missing several directors that have only made a single best - picture nominee so far, including people like Denis Villeneuve, Alfonso Cuarón, and Jean - Marc Vallée — all of whom have also made powerful films about women.

Not exact matches

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.

And while only a few saw it, those who did catch Andrei Zyvagintsev «s «Elena» fell head over heels in love with it; a powerful and gripping Russian film about an elderly woman trying to secure an inheritance for her son.

At a time when Hollywood couldn't be more sensitive about the sexual abuse meted out by powerful men, this is a film about the very worst sexual violence against women, with McDormand playing a grieving and furiously angry mother still mourning her pretty daughter, who was raped and murdered by an unknown attacker.

We believe that by learning more about how women are faring in the independent film world, and by opening our own data at Sundance Institute for this study, we gain powerful insights into ways to positively affect progress.

One gets the feeling that the filmmakers were excited to open this film on the heels of a Hillary Clinton victory... a story about a powerful woman, laser - focused on her mission to push through gun - control legislation.

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.

A film about a transgender woman dealing with the death of an old boyfriend is not only relevant but powerful.

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.

Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, 2017), because it's the most powerful popular feminist statement in mainstream cinema thus far, inspiring countless young women and girls to dare to succeed; because Patty Jenkins more than deserved it after languishing in the wilderness of episodic television after her masterful film Monster (2003), when any male director would have gone on to direct four of five features on the strength of that one film; because it's about damned time that a female comic book feature got made; because Jenkins still had to fight to get a fair payday to direct WW 2 — enduring months of fight - to - the - death negotiations to get a directorial fee comparable to that of Zack Snyder or J.J. Abrams for the sequel; and finally because she's better than either of those two directors, who are overrated hacks with little or no vision at all.

A specific activity that really demonstrates this approach is the close viewing of the film «Pigeon,» a powerful 11 - minute piece about one woman's decision to save a Jewish stranger during the Holocaust.

Bring a blanket and gather in the amphitheater near Wangechi Mutu's sculpture Water Woman to watch a selection of films about powerful women and girls living near and under the water.