To be honest, I'm surprised more women in film don't do the same; the fact is, the roles just aren't out there -LSB-...]
Not exact matches
Certainly that difference doesn't work for everyone, the
film pointed out
in its profile of two other
women.
Two years previously, he arranged and paid for, with what I guess counts as bohemian chivalry, a
woman he impregnated to get an abortion (then illegal) from a competent doctor, and
in the
film we see him
do the same for Jean.
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.
What people don't realize is that the
women in these
films have a family... and I wonder if I was a father of one of these
women how I would feel knowing my daughter is
doing this... I'm sure I would feel just like any other father would... very an - «gry... and up - «set that this ind - «ustry still exist's.
Baroness Kidron's 2013 documentary
film InRealLife,
in which she interviews several teenage porn users, offers a chilling insight into the entrenched depth of their engagement with porn and what it's
doing to their views of relationships,
women and the world.
We're sitting
in the pub post Star Wars, discussing the
film in minute detail as we are wont to do... AND THE WOMAN FROM THE NEXT TABLE TURNS TO US AND SAYS «OH HI, I»M ROSE FROM THE FILM AND I»VE LOVED LISTENING TO YOUR CONVERSATION FOR THE LAST HOUR.&ra
film in minute detail as we are wont to
do... AND THE
WOMAN FROM THE NEXT TABLE TURNS TO US AND SAYS «OH HI, I»M ROSE FROM THE
FILM AND I»VE LOVED LISTENING TO YOUR CONVERSATION FOR THE LAST HOUR.&ra
FILM AND I»VE LOVED LISTENING TO YOUR CONVERSATION FOR THE LAST HOUR.»
While the media and the
film industry would have
women believe this tends to occur spontaneously
in one big gush just before a
woman goes into labor, the reality is that it usually doesn't happen until she's well into contractions.
If they were trying to empower
women with that
film - which is the claim - there are better ways to
do so,
in my opinion.
In a
film dominated by men, she
does her best to include the revealing glances of the
women around them.
Former London fire authority chairman Brian Coleman has been fined after admitting he
did assault a
woman in north London as she
filmed him parking illegally.
The garbled science
in this
film makes fusion power even more problematic, and the beautiful but ineffectual physicist Dr. Lily Sinclair (Rachel Weisz) doesn't exactly help the cause of
women in science.
I
did a
film that's on YouTube of me reading hate mail with a
woman playing the cello
in the background.
«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.
Salma doesn't seem to have a
film to promote this year, but she attended the CFF to speak about her industry experience during the festival's «
Women in Motion» panel.
Taken
in 1982, I love that this image is not the young Audrey Hepburn
done up for her
films, but the everyday
woman walking street style with her lifelong friend - that is what I wanted to capture with the project.
Sadly, much of the
film goes
in circles as Jack floats between
woman, his apartment, and the increasingly shallow conversations with Benedetto that don't even have the decency to pretend to be layered.
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.
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.
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.»
«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.
If you don't believe
in this stuff, then the
film is exploiting a young
woman with mental issues.
Many
films in which characters are pregnant look exactly like what has been
done to achieve this effect: an extremely thin actress has been fitted with a fake baby belly, which
does not offer an accurate depiction of what happens to a
woman's body when she's pregnant.
But the
film does confront the fact that particularly for
women, pursuing desire
in middle age is a fraught path.
The young
woman (Emma Bellomy) asking the question (as she
did in the first
film) has long stringy hair, but her face is hidden
in the shadows.
Indeed, the non-Marvel
films in these franchises that have
done best more recently are the ones that stood out from the crowd, like Wonder
Woman (which rejected the dark tone of other DC movies), Logan (which felt like a grown - up standalone
film), and Deadpool (which loudly razzed the idea of being linked to X-Men movies).
Perhaps because it promotes traditional values - respect
women, crime doesn't pay, family comes first - the
film shines
in those rare scenes when it plays with received wisdom.
Though he engages
in an inappropriate relationship, the
film doesn't portray Kirstin as a child but as an experienced
woman.
Though it didn't bother me
in this
film, it is an annoying result that revisionism is only capable of giving us anachronistic
women in the hands of the wrong writers.
In this spoof of adventure films, a trio of women prisoners must escape confinement in order to stop the Satan - worshipping Dr. Syn Do from world dominatio
In this spoof of adventure
films, a trio of
women prisoners must escape confinement
in order to stop the Satan - worshipping Dr. Syn Do from world dominatio
in order to stop the Satan - worshipping Dr. Syn
Do from world domination.
Rarely are female leads given anything of substance to
do in action
films, so I applaud Besson for writing this role for a
woman.
Your complaint not only casts your commanding officer
in a bad light, but also may involve him; the
film says «25 percent of
women didn't report an incident — because their commander was their rapist.»
To its credit, the
film doesn't sugarcoat its
women too monstrously, and it lets real conflicts and opinions occasionally creep
in.
In this film, Skogland, as Kathryn Bigelow does in «The Hurt Locker,» demolishes the notion that women can't direct actio
In this
film, Skogland, as Kathryn Bigelow
does in «The Hurt Locker,» demolishes the notion that women can't direct actio
in «The Hurt Locker,» demolishes the notion that
women can't direct action.
In one of the more clever twists, Enter the Dragon's sex slave scene tosses in a different spin — making the women into men — funny, and done with more subtlety than most other films would have show
In one of the more clever twists, Enter the Dragon's sex slave scene tosses
in a different spin — making the women into men — funny, and done with more subtlety than most other films would have show
in a different spin — making the
women into men — funny, and
done with more subtlety than most other
films would have shown.
Refn has described the
film as «beyond feminist», yet this is a movie
in which things are
done to
women's bodies (there's a scene
in which Fanning's character is deep throated with a knife) and which parades naked
women around to be defined by their beauty.
Although we've seen the struggle for individualism and personal power
done many times before, particularly
in independent
films, Real
Women Have Curves never seems to lack for freshness despite it all.
We don't get a whole lot of the comedy
in the trailer, which makes the
film seem like a fairly straightforward drama about a
woman's spiritual battles.
Although there have been many
films about pregnancy and the fears involved
in having a baby, there are angles here not often taken before
in comedy, including what goes through a man's mind when having sex with a pregnant
woman («I don't want that to be the first thing the baby sees», etc.) that is funny (because it probably actually
does go through a man's mind).
Iannotta doesn't have a feature
film to his name yet, but he's got a credit that isn't just handed to any man or
woman with a movie camera — his documentary short, My Big Red Purse, was selected to play at last month's South by Southwest
Film Festival, beating out hundreds of competitors
in the process.
Philip Glass (The Illusionist, Undertow) coats the
film with his usual whimsical style, and though the
film might be deemed as too slight
in its subject matter to merit such heavy - handed compositions, the music is actually completely
in keeping with the tragic allusions underneath, with motifs based on magic (wizard hats, old cats, strands of hair, and gold stars tie
in to the coven - like relationship of the
women) as well as Biblical references (Sheba is short for Bathsheba, the Old Testament
woman seduced; Barbara's last name is Covett, and covet she most certainly
does).
They include an alternate opening of Carol
doing an voice exercise with an annoyingly - voiced
woman interviewing her
in a bookstore, more of and on Dani and Moe's rocky marriage, a scene featuring an accomplished female voiceover artist (played by Melissa Disney), and a number of additional clips from the convincing fake reality dating TV show woven throughout the
film,
Joachim Trier's Thelma has often been compared to Brian de Palma's Carrie, and although the
films differ
in many ways, both of them
do focus on a young
woman oppressed by the adults
in her life, and without any friends.
The chatter of this strange assortment of upper - middle class Brits might work better
in the theater, since the action takes place
in real time set wholly
in an extensively furnished London home (actually
filmed in a West London studio), with the
women doing most of the talk and much of the witty liftings.
His newest
film sweeps the corners on the ages not covered by those two
films, focusing on the unlikely friendship between a college freshman (Lola Kirke) and a
woman hovering around 30 (Greta Gerwig)-- and
in doing so, Baumbach and Gerwig cook up what may be his flat - out funniest movie of the past decade.
At the same time, his daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz), a minor who just turned 17, is starting an affair with a sixty - something
film director (John Malkovich) who is legendary for his skill and productivity but also notorious for making
films about older men having affairs with much younger
women and
doing the same thing
in real life.
During this 1 - on - 1 phone interview with Collider, actress and filmmaker Heather Graham talked about wanting to make a movie celebrating
women and friendship, the biggest challenges
in getting this
film going, having her voice heard, as a female filmmaker, what she most enjoyed about playing Honey, putting together this cast, funny moments on set, what she enjoyed about the experience of directing, her hope to
do it again, juggling three different writing projects, and
doing the British TV series Bliss, from David Cross.
In both
films, the
women have the power and the wisdom, while the men mostly don't.