"claudia-llosa" Articles & Blogs:
Another female director is nominated for an Oscar
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With all the hoopla over Kathryn Bigelow (as well the nomination for An Education as best picture) I missed another women directed film — The Milk of Sorrow directed by Claudia Llosa — which is up for the foreign film Oscar.
Not only is this film dir...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: The Long List of the Foreign Language Contenders
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The Academy released the 65 titles eligible for the best foreign film. Only SEVEN of the 65 are directed by women. Guess that things aren’t so much better outside the US for women directors.
Here are the women, the countries and their films:
Hunga...[Read on] |
Alice Munro Wins Man Booker International Prize
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Beating out lots of talented, towering literary figures including Mario Vargas Llosa, VS Naipaul, and Peter Carey, Munro was named the third recipient of the Man Booker International Prize.
This is what judge Jane Smiley said about Munro:
“Her work is...[Read on] |
Christy Turlington – 41 Years Young and Loving Life
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Also from our Liz, a new controversy in the HamptonsLiz Smith | Today 12:00 am
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Can you name "the big six&quo...[Read on] |
Interview with Wendy Jo Carlton – Director of Hannah Free
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Hannah Free, the new film starring Sharon Gless, written by Claudia Allen (adapted from her play) and directed by Wendy Jo Carlton will premiere on Sunday, June 28 as the closing night film for the Frameline LGBT Film Festival in San Francisco.
The film ...[Read on] |
Jill Clayburgh: Breaking Boundaries for Women On Screen
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I heard the sad news this morning about the passing of Jill Clayburgh from leukemia at 66.
I hadn’t thought about Clayburgh in a while not since the cancellation of the under appreciated Dirty Sexy Money, but upon hearing the news I was immediate...[Read on] |
Guess Gets Seductive, Even More So Than Usual
| Clockwise from top left: Shantel VanSanten, Maurice Marciano with Alyssa Miller and party host Vanessa Hudgens, Mark Sailing, Louise Roe, and Solange Knowles. From PatrickMcMullan.com.
The new Guess fragrance, Seductive.
On a serendipitous Hollywood eveni...[Read on] |
Fall 2010 TV Season – Shows Created by Women
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The fall lineups have been set (including some mid-season shows) so it’s time to see how women creatives have fared.
Here’s what we have been able to find out (research assistance from Stephanie Rosenfeld)
Fox – Five new shows- no female creators
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Gender Bias in Theatre — Digging a Little Deeper
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Last week I attended the release of an economic study done by Princeton undergrad Emily Glassberg Sands entitled Opening the Curtain of Playwright Gender: An Integrated Economic Analysis of Discrimination in American Theatre.
Usually an undergraduate the...[Read on] |
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