Sentences with phrase «short film about a woman»

«FIRE MAY BE SUBTLE» Three leads, two male and one female, are being cast in this short film about a woman whose psyche suffers a major break after the death of her boyfriend.

There is a short film that inspired The Nancy Starling (the fictional movie within Their Finest), which is a short film about a woman played by Peggy Ashcroft, who goes to help rescue her husband from Dunkirk (Channel Incident, 1940).

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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.

She is currently developing a feature film about women's fear of commitment, for which her short film, Loose Ends, is currently making festival rounds.

by Walter Chaw Three short films about three women and the men who mistreat them, Rebecca Miller's DV triptych Personal Velocity: Three Portraits is a fine - looking film that plays a little like Catherine Breillat - lite — a series of iterations of Yeats's «Leda and the Swan» that suggest the evil that men do to women only makes women stronger.

Reviews female critics write about films with female directors and / or written by at least one woman are considerably shorter (average of 480 words).

The Bakery Girl of Monceau — The first of Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales is a short film about a law student (future director Barbet Schroeder, with voiceover narration by future director Bertrand Tavernier) who sees a pretty woman walk by every day, over-thinks a plan to ask her out, and ends up buying cookies every day waiting to run into the girl again.

The ultimate haptic heroine of the AFI FEST was the unnamed protagonist of Krotkaya (A Gentle Creature), the third narrative film of the Berlin - based Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitza.45 The Russian title is that of the original short story by Dostoyevsky (1876) about a meek young woman inexplicably committing suicide, but, in its country of production (France), the film is called Une Femme douce — like the 1969 adaptation of the same story by Robert Bresson directed.

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 SHORT VERSION: 20th Century Women is a film about Dorothea, a mother (Annette Bening) trying to raise her son (Lucas Jade Zumann) as a good man, even though his father (literally) is out of -LSB-...]

Going into Wang Bing's latest documentary, Mrs. Fang, I was too busy cracking jokes about how much shorter it is than his previous works (his breakthrough film, Tie xi qu: West of the Tracks, clocks in at nine hours; his recent masterpiece»Til Madness Do Us Part comes in at close to four) and had somehow failed to realize I'd be watching almost an hour and a half of a woman lying on her deathbed.

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.

Drawing on a collection of short stories of the same name by Hotaru Okamoto and Yuko Tone, Takahata's enchanting painterly animation about a 27 - year - old woman reflecting on her youth in the 1960s is a musing on time passing that's never saccharine or nostalgic but heavy with melancholy and realism, a novelty among fantasy - obsessed manga films.

You can check out the play - by - play of my reactions over at my Instagram (short video reviews and a highlighted story called Cloverfield Noob), but what really fascinated me about these films were the women.

Accompanied by the improvised short film, Metro 7 Bis by writer / director Dean Loxton about a woman's encounter with a handsome stranger in Paris, only to find their meeting was hardly by chance.

Known for her provocative books about women, society and sexuality (the film Secretary was based on one of her short stories), Gaitskill is turning her talents this time to the subject of family and surrogate motherhood.

Molyneux, the P. T. Barnum of video games, cued a short film — which should have been the first clue that we were about to be duped — showing the virtual boy interacting with a real woman.

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.

MoMA will screen Export's «TAP and TOUCH Cinema,» direct action of herself walking naked wearing a mini movie theater around her body; «A Perfect Couple or Fornication Changes Its Skin,» her sleek 80's short film about bodybuilding and advertising; and her feature - length film «Menschenfrauen» about a man who's dating four women at once.

Among the highlights will be the social practice artist Theaster Gates singing his own rendition of «God Bless America,» «The Battle Hymn of the Republic» and other traditional patriotic tunes; the filmmaker Arthur Jafa presenting his lauded short movie about racism, «Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death»; the artist Shirin Neshat showing films about violence against women; the composer David Lang performing and also speaking about «danger and honesty in both pop and classical music»; the poet Elizabeth Alexander reading her own work; and the artist Hank Willis Thomas presenting and discussing his film «A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else» (2014) on James Baldwin.

Mademoiselle Privé, the Saatchi Gallery exhibition about the life and legacy of Coco Chanel, includes a short film made by Karl Lagerfeld imagining an encounter between him and the woman who founded Chanel.

Experimental filmmaker and video artist Peggy Ahwesh (2000 Moving Image) was part of Creative Capital's first class of awardees with her work The Star Eaters, a short film about gambling, risk - taking and failure in one woman's trip through Atlantic City.