Sentences with phrase «woman in the film who»

Feminism, now a dirty word, was such a force to be reckoned with that you didn't dare depict a woman in a film who didn't have, at the very least, her own identity.

Determined to clear their names, the band of men runs from federal agent Charisa Sosa (Jessica Biel)-- the one woman in the film who provides a minor love interest for Face — while seeking help from CIA Agent Lynch (Patrick Wilson).

Cannes Film Festival 2018 Jury Chair Cate Blanchett and Palme d'Or - winning director Agnes Varda stood among 82 women in film who gathered on the red carpet at the Lumière Theater to protest the 71 year old festival's exceptionally poor record on inclusion of women in all areas of festival programming, and demand greater equality for women in the film industry.

And with the woman in the film who «raises» them, the young puppies are subjected to threatening behavior by humans at a very young age, a dangerous precedent.

Not exact matches

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.

In a panel discussion following a Saturday screening of the film in New York, Sarkeesian — a San Francisco entrepreneur who with her team of four creates the video series Feminist Frequency — addressed possible responses to the online abuse women face from gamers, ex-boyfriends and other venomous sourceIn a panel discussion following a Saturday screening of the film in New York, Sarkeesian — a San Francisco entrepreneur who with her team of four creates the video series Feminist Frequency — addressed possible responses to the online abuse women face from gamers, ex-boyfriends and other venomous sourcein New York, Sarkeesian — a San Francisco entrepreneur who with her team of four creates the video series Feminist Frequency — addressed possible responses to the online abuse women face from gamers, ex-boyfriends and other venomous sources.

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.

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.

But with one exception the women in the film come off relatively well: The cause of divorce and related relational meltdowns seems to be mainly narcissistic men (and so we feel for the women who make the mistake of trying to humor them).

Terence Malick's latest film features an American (Ben Affleck) who falls in love with a French woman and a priest (Javier Bardem) who undergoes a crisis of faith.

The film spans several decades, following Corinne from a young girl who half - heartedly proclaims herself to be saved by Jesus to a teenager who marries when she becomes pregnant to a woman ensconced in a deeply religious community after she and her husband come to believe that God has saved their baby.

Cheryl Boone Isaacs, who is the president Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a black woman, has struggled to enforce a change in diversity in film.

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.»

Neil's ability to spread unease manifests itself also in his destruction of the second woman who loves him in the film, Jane.

The L.A. Times has just posted a lengthy expose outlining what several women say was pattern of inappropriate behavior by Franco, who also helped operate a film school called Studio 4, and would offer students the opportunity to star in some of Franco's own projects.

Apparently, this tart was created by a Polish pâtissier, at the times when Roger Vadim started to make a film...» And God created woman...» in St Tropez, starring who was at the time an unknown girl called Brigitte... The film crew loved this tart so much that they asked the pâtissier to make one (or several) every day... The film was a hit, the unknown girl became a world sex - symbol.....

Home Delivery — This film documents the lives of three women in New York, who for very different reasons have decided to go up against social trends and take the birth of their children into their own handsâ $ ¦ and homes.

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.

Many of the women who appear in the film discuss issues that, while not gone entirely, were more widespread 30 years ago — the denial of assisted reproduction to lesbians or single women; the lack of legal recognition for non-biological parents; creating then - untested contracts between a known donor and a female couple; a mother being denied entrance to the hospital where her partner has just given birth to their severely premature child.

This one was from Kate, who identified herself as an API member from New Hampshire, USA, and the woman about whom the article featured in the film for maybe a couple seconds is about.

The film follows the story of a young woman, Eilis Lacey, played by Academy Award - nominated Saoirse Ronan, who leaves Ireland in search of a better life.

Federal prosecutors investigating President Trump's personal attorney, Michael D. Cohen, are seeking records related to two women who received payments in 2016 after alleging affairs with Trump years before — adult - film star Stormy Daniels and ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal — according to two people familiar with the matter.

Lawmakers want to create $ 5 million in new tax credits for TV and film directors and producers who work in New York — but only if they're minorities or women.

«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.

Screen icon Meryl Streep, who like countless performers has appeared in films produced or distributed by The Weinstein Company, called revelations that studio co-founder Harvey Weinstein had sexually harassed women for decade «disgraceful.»

Schneiderman has been a vocal proponent of the #MeToo movement, bringing legal action in New York against film producer Harvey Weinstein, who has been accused of sexually assaulting women.

Ziskin, a Hollywood film producer who died of metastatic breast cancer, was a co-founder of Stand Up To Cancer, an initiative founded in 2008 by nine women in the entertainment industry to accelerate groundbreaking research and bring new treatments to patients as quickly as possible.

«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.

Every time I said yes, amazing people who believed in me and who've had a bigger vision of what I could do in this world stepped forward — from my mom who went vegan with me after my fourth recurrence of bone cancer, to the yoga teachers who insisted I could become a yoga teacher too, to the talented woman who designed my website, to the director who brought together the crew for this film and made an idea a reality.

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.

When researchers asked women to watch either an erotic film, a sports video, or a «neutral» video of a train, and then perform a series of unpleasant acts (like drinking out of a cup with a bug in it), they found that those who'd watched the sexual acts rated the tasks as less disgusting — and were also able to complete more of them.

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!

Model and «Houghton Girl» Chloe Norgaard is one of nine women who star in a poignant short film about body positivity ups and downs.

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.

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.

It may be interesting to watch the film «Zaritsas: Russian Women in New York» by filmmaker Elena Beloff, a Russian woman who has lived in New York for ten years.

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.

Other than Graham, who doesn't really have much to do here, there's a surprising lack of women in the movie, which might make this as much of a guys» film as «Old School.»

The film is framed by a letter that Caroline, afflicted with a mortal case of Scarlet Fever, is writing to her young «uns in 1775, a communication that tells the story of a woman who despite her beauty and charm is not particularly liked by her new husband.

Set in an unnamed South American country, the film centers around Paulina Escobar (Weaver), a woman who, 15 years earlier, was tortured and raped by the since - deposed governmental regime.

Set in 1943, as London felt the regular bombings from Hitler and the Allied ships were often bombarded by German U-boats, the film covers the work of the men and women who toiled in the top secret estate of Bletchley Park.

Intense psychodrama in this Italian film about a woman who recall her past abuse by a pedophilia father.

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.

«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.

Oscar Isaac is predictably reliable in a smaller role, but it is really the women who get to show off throughout the film.

Much of the film is as strange and oddly beautiful as one of Arbus» own photographs, bold in its attempt to find new ways of cracking the biopic chestnut and sensitive in its portrayal of a 1950s woman who, like so many of her contemporaries, finds herself imprisoned in a «Good Housekeeping» nightmare.

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.

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.

The film chronicles a woman's erotic journey from birth to age 50, recounted over 8 chapters by Joe, a self - diagnosed nymphomaniac, to Seligman, a bachelor who finds her beaten body in an alleyway and tends to her wounds.