"lone-scherfig" Articles & Blogs:
Indie Spirit Moments
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The last couple of weeks have been all Bigelow all the time, but since The Hurt Locker and the blue people weren’t up for any awards at this year’s Indie Spirits, it allowed other films to shine.
I was so psyched to see Gabby Sidibe (and Precious) wi...[Read on] |
Newsflash: Women can direct movies
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Lone Scherfig
The NY Times takes a look at some of the films generating buzz at Toronto and lo and behold women directors are really making a mark this season. In general, women directors have a higher presence at film festivals. Festivals try and ge...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: National Board of Review
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Carey Mulligan
The National Board of Review (NBR) handed out its awards for 2009 and Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air (which is opening in limited release today) took top honors. NBR is a mysterious group. Some film people, some folks not in the bus...[Read on] |
Girl-Powered Chicago Film Festival
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</object> The 45th Annual Chicago International Film Festival kicks off today, and this year, organize...[Read on] |
Interview with Lone Scherfig - Director of An Education
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Danish director Lone Scherfig is one of several women being mentioned this year for a potential best director nomination for her critically acclaimed film An Education. Here’s what I wrote earlier about the film. She took some time to answer some qu...[Read on] |
Women Making Movies
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The New York Times does it again! Just a couple short weeks after their girl-tastic issue of the NYT Magazine, yesterday they ran an article about the surprisingly large presence of female directors at this year’s Toronto Film Festival.
In additio...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: The BAFTA Long List
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Certain of the Oscar categories release long list before the final nominations but BAFTA (The British Academy of Film and Television Arts) has produced a long list in all its categories before whittling it down to the final five in each.
An Education (a...[Read on] |
Could a woman get nominated for best director this year?
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Another of the post-Cannes write ups include a supposition that 2009 might be a year where a woman could get a best director nod which would be the first since Sophia Coppola in 2003 for Lost in Translation. (H/T to Guy Lodge from In Contention for even...[Read on] |
An Education
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The second An Education opened at Sundance last January the buzz began. The buzz was most especially focused on the star making performance of a pretty unknown English actress Carey Mulligan. Sometimes the buzz blows over or gets overtaken by new buzz...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: The Independent Spirit Award Nominations
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Isn’t the indie world supposed to be better for women? Guess not that much better since women were virtually shut out of all the major awards categories for the Independent Spirit Awards which will be held in LA on Friday, March 5th.
Here are some of...[Read on] |
On the Women of 'Slumdog Millionaire,' by Vishakha N. Desai
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‘Seeing so many Indian faces on the stage of the Kodak Theater in Los
Angeles was in itself a sight to savor. But the more I watched, the
more uncomfortable I became about one particular element’A Friend Stopped By | Today 12:05 pm
Editor’...[Read on] |
We Couldn't Agree More, Justice Ginsburg
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by Amy Matsui, Senior Counsel, National Women's Law Center
So much attention has been paid recently to the fact that Justice Ginsburg is the lone woman seated on the Supreme Court. In a recent interview, Justice Ginsburg herself spoke about that exp...[Read on] |
Sexism Watch: Women missing on A.O. Scott’s list of great films
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This is just another reason why I have such trouble with the NY Times reviews. A.O. Scott put his subjective look at the “great” films from 2000 to now, and not surprisingly, only a lone female filmmaker (Claire Denis), and not one female centric ...[Read on] |
NCAA Women’s Soccer Final Four Determined
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The NCAA women’s soccer playoffs are coming to an end with just the last four teams standing after a somewhat predictable quarter final round. Stanford defeated Florida 5-0, Notre Dame and Ohio State both shut out their opponents, Oklahoma State and Geo...[Read on] |
Women at the Box Office – A look back and a look ahead
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While most Americans (and the world) are struggling financially, Hollywood had a great year. Box office revenue topped $10.6 billion, up 10 percent from 2008 (according to Hollywood.com) and many of the year end stories have talked about women both at...[Read on] |
Why are there so few ladies in late night comedy?
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Last Thursday, the Paley Center for Media and the Writer's Guild of America East hosted a panel on women in late night comedy writing. The five panelists and the moderator, all women (and all white), were or used to be writers for The Daily Show, The Colb...[Read on] |
New Research: Women fare better in the indie movie world
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File this under no shit sherlock, but new research from the Center for Study for Women in Television and Film at San Diego State shows that women are more represented on independent films that appear in film festivals than in the top grossing big budget f...[Read on] |
What happens when a women wants to buy a car?
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Women consumers influence 80% of all vehicles purchased in the United
States, and buy approximately 50% of all new and used cars and 40% of
all trucks sold in the US. And yet, according to Marketing2Women, 74% feel misunderstood by automotive marketers...[Read on] |
Battle of the Sexes: Fall Movie Battles to Come
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Fall is the time of year when you can catch the soon-to-be award-winning films on the big screen. Despite the strong list of Oscar worthy gems this fall you also have those fun genre movies we all like to enjoy in between. There will still be battles betw...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: The Writers Guild Nominations
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The Writers Guild Award is one of the strictest in the award season. Here’s how to qualify: (Feature films eligible for a Writers Guild Award were exhibited theatrically for at least one week in Los Angeles in 2009 and were written under the WGA’s M...[Read on] |
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