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The Tempest picked as NY Film Festival’s centerpiece
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The pedigree for The Tempest directed by Julie Taymor keeps growing. It will have its world premiere as the closing film at the Venice Film Festival in September, and now it has been tapped as the centerpiece film for this year’s NY Film Festival.
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Telluride Film Fest Lineup: Very Few Women Directors
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I’m getting back up to speed and decided to wade in on some fall film festivals news.
The Telluride Film Festival kicked off today and there are 24 films listed in the main lineup called “the show.” Of the 24 films announced guess how many are ...[Read on] |
New York Film Festival announces lineup with only two female directors (plus two in a group film)
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The New York Film Festival which is the centerpiece of NY’s fall film season announced its lineup today and only two women are on the docket with film’s of their own.
That’s 7.4%.
I took out the film Revolucion which has 10 directors (and two ar...[Read on] |
For Colored Girls – Review
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The actresses who star in the new film For Colored Girls have been saying on the press tour that the film is not just for colored girls. I find it crazy that women have to stand up and say that a film that stars some of our finest African American actr...[Read on] |
PBS to air film about women and bullfighting
| The amazing independent documentary program P.O.V. will be showing the film Ella Es El Matador (She Is The Matador) on September 1st. Check out more info on the movie here. I suspect that there will be graphic imagery, but it should definitely...[Read on] |
Why is it so strange that male critics like movies about women?
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I read this blog post yesterday What does this say about U.S. manhood: Male critics actually like ‘Eat Pray Love’ by Patrick Goldstein of the LA Times and it didn’t really get to me enough to blog about it. But while I was tossing and turning in...[Read on] |
Eclipse eclipses New Moon’s overnight numbers
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Even though this film seems to be coming in a bit under the radar screen it will have a big weekend and if you needed confirmation of that fact, the numbers from the midnight screenings are a good guidepost.
The film took in $30 million in midnight scr...[Read on] |
Women in Film to Honor Holly Hunter and Jennifer Aniston
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Women in Film will honor Jennifer Aniston, Holly Hunter, Catherine Hardwicke, Elizabeth Banks and Petra Korner at the 2009 Crystal + Lucy Awards in LA on June 12th. The event will be hosted by Chelsea Handler.
Aniston will receive the Crystal Awards fo...[Read on] |
Tangled and The Black Swan Kick Box Office Butt
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Tangled overtook Harry Potter at the box office this weekend on its second weekend out and is close to making $100 million in just two weeks.
On the one hand its great that a woman centric film (ok, a princess centric film) is doing so great but it wil...[Read on] |
Lunafest- A Women’s Film Festival Near You
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The folks who bring us the yummy lunabars are also the ones behind Lunafest - a traveling festival of films by and about women - that are happening in communities across the country.
They are looking for submissions for the next festival and the deadline...[Read on] |
We Want Sex(ual) Equality
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Sally Hawkins
Every time I read about this film I get so excited. We Want Sex is the true story about women from the Dagenham Ford plant who struck for pay equity in 1968 England. It was announced at Cannes with some fanfare.
The film stars Sally Ha...[Read on] |
The Special Relationship doesn’t do justice to Hillary Clinton
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Here’s a bit about something that’s been bothering me for a couple of days since I saw the film on HBO.
I remember being excited when they announced the cast for The Special Relationship, the third in the trilogy of Michael Sheen taking on Tony Bla...[Read on] |
Double Standard: SATC 2 v. Grown-ups
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Here’s what bothers me. The women of Sex and the City 2 get skewered for being not mature, and self-centered and out of touch and the thousand other things that were used to put down that film, but Grown-Ups a movie that celebrates the lack of male ...[Read on] |
Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris Opens the Cannes Film Festival
| Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and Owen Wilson. Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics.Glamour returns to the Croisette today as the 2011 Cannes Film Festival opens and film power brokers from across the globe arrive in droves. After a somewhat lackluster 2010, Thierry ...[Read on] |
Race and Film: The Release of Skin
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Sandra Laing and Sophie Okonedo
Interesting story out of England about how director Anthony Fabian is resorting to guerrilla type outreach tactics to raise awareness and get an audience to see his new film Skin starring Oscar nominated actress Sophie Oko...[Read on] |
Unanswered Questions Concerning the Mean Girls 2 Trailer
| We were not aware that a sequel to 2004 film Mean Girls was in the works. In fairness, we had not thought to check for one, as the conclusion of the ur–Mean Girls film, Mean Girls, did not leave us with very many unanswered questions. This new trail...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: Gotham Independent Film Nominations
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It has begun. The crazy awards season. We’re going to keep track of the women creatives (and films about women) on the way to the Oscars.
The good news. Two women directors are up for best feature. The Hurt Locker was expected, but Amreeka is a b...[Read on] |
Betty Thomas — $200 Million Director
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You know things are shifting a bit when Entertainment Weekly has a column that spotlights female directors at the box office the week after Kathryn Bigelow won at her Oscar.
They note in the that Betty Thomas (former actress on Hill Street Blues) who has...[Read on] |
Women’s Weekend Box Office Report June 25-27
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Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone crossed the $1 million dollar mark this past weekend and is now playing on 70 screens including some in the midwest near where the film takes place. The film cost $2 million and it looks promising for it to pay back it...[Read on] |
Women Directors Rock the Tribeca Film Fest
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The 10th Annual Tribeca Film Festival has finally screened it’s last flick, and as the dust settles, it’s time to look back and appreciate some of the female directors whose films were among the fest’s most exceptional work. Keep an eye ...[Read on] |
Hollywood Writers Report 2009
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It’s no surprise to know that women writers in Hollywood have a tough time getting gigs. It’s always great to have the statistics to back up all the anecdotes. So, here are the abysmal statistics from the 2009 Hollywood Writers Report report done ...[Read on] |
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is Rooney Mara
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Here she is folks, here she is world, here’s Lisbeth (borrowing from Sondheim’s Rose’s Turn)
Don’t know anything about her except that she’s the sister of Kate Mara (who’s an actress too), grew up in a family that owned the Pittsburgh Ste...[Read on] |
The Time Traveler’s Wife
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I have to preface my thoughts on this film by saying that my eyes exploded in a huge allergic reaction during the second half of the film. Weirdly, even though I could barely see I liked the second half better but for a epic type romance there was somet...[Read on] |
Amreeka - Now playing in NY and LA
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While I was away a new film from this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Amreeka, written and directed by Cherien Dabis opened in NY and LA. It will be rolling out to other cities over the next month. I was able to see the film last spring at the New Di...[Read on] |
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