"women-make-movies" Articles & Blogs:
Sexism Watch: Yahoo’s 100 Movies to See Before You Die
 |
Yahoo just published a list compiled by its movie staff of the 100 movies you must see before you die.
ONLY ONE IS DIRECTED BY A WOMAN- Fast Times at Ridgemont High by Amy Heckerling.
Here’s the description of how they came up with the list:
Many mov...[Read on] |
New hosts for At the Movies- Another couple of guys
 |
Fired critics Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz
What’s wrong with these pictures?
One of the remaining movie review shows which peaked years ago when it starred Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert is At the Movies. Before last season they replaced Ebert and Sisk...[Read on] |
Women & Hollywood in the News
|
Women & Hollywood has been in the news twice this weekend. Thought I’d share:
From Ann Hornaday at the Washington Post:
Women & Film: With female characters, why does Hollywood fear that the stronger they are, the harder they fail?
This state of af...[Read on] |
Guess What? Women buy more movie tickets than men
 |
You know that whole conversation about how women don’t go to the movies and are not a film market? You know that conversation that we hear over and over as the big reason why we are inundated with crappy boy films week in and week out.
Well thanks to...[Read on] |
[Video] Are their male and female jobs? Guess who?.
| Did you know that in kids' movies, men can outnumber women five to one? And that the most common job description for women in those movies involves wearing a tiara ruling a kingdom?
Princess' aside, Geena Davis noticed what she thought was a trend a few ...[Read on] |
Women Make Movies plays in SF
|
Here’s a great opportunity for all of you in the Bay Area to see these great movies on the big screen. Usually the only way to see Women Make Movies films is at a festival or if it gets picked up for TV. But this week at the Roxie in SF, these fil...[Read on] |
If Women Like It, It Must Be Stupid
 |
That is the title of the accompanying piece that talks to best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert in this week’s Entertainment Weekly which has Julia Roberts and Eat Pray Love on the cover.
That sentence is literally the bain of my existence. Many ti...[Read on] |
April Movies Spring Open With 'Queen to Play'
 |
(WOMENSENEWS)--April has already sprung some great movies so let's catch up.
read more
...[Read on] |
Women & Hollywood: New Movies Alert
 |
Lisa Cholodenko
Just read about two new movies where two sets of women play lovers.
Annette Bening and Julianne Moore star as partners and mothers in Kids. The film is about their kids’ search for their sperm donor (played by Mark Ruffalo) altering ...[Read on] |
Girl With Dragons & Fires & Hornets, Oh My
 |
Ima gotta admit–I think the world was a better place before this series of books and movies came out. OK, maybe I should limit it to the movies since I haven't read the books, and obviously that means just the first two since the hornet one is yet t...[Read on] |
Memo to Hollywood: Women go to movies
 |
We talk about this issue on this site all the time, but I love it when a woman in Hollywood gets down and dirty about how Hollywood treats women.
I love it even more when that woman is Nia Vardalos the keeper of one of the highest grossing romantic comed...[Read on] |
The voice of a studio head- Amy Pascal talks to The Wrap
 |
It’s not very often that you get to hear, really hear, a studio chief’s take on the business. Sharon Waxman, founder and editor-in-chief of The Wrap got Amy Pascal to answer some questions and talk about the state of the movies. It’s also good...[Read on] |
Made in Dagenham trailer
| I can’t embed this trailer on the site because it is exclusive to Times of London, but I had to share because this is a really cool movie.
This trailer so reminded me of Norma Rae and the awesome strong female women who we saw regularly in the movies i...[Read on] |
Summit signs Bill Condon to direct 4th film in the Twilight saga
 |
I can’t say I am surprised, but I have to say I am dismayed. Summit has signed Bill Condon — who I believe is a very talented director and I have seen all his movies — to direct the 4th film in the Twilight saga – Breaking Dawn. There is a p...[Read on] |
Women at the Box Office: August 13-15
 |
The dynamic of the weekend was set up as adversarial all week.
Will the girls beat the boys? Will the boys punch the girls? No wonder we are still so fucked up about gender at the movies. If we didn’t set the movies up as an us vs. them dynamic...[Read on] |
The Elle Power List – 2010
 |
For the second year in a row, Elle Magazine asked Nikki Finke to put together a list of the most powerful women in Hollywood.
Personally, I liked the days when the list was 1-100 and it was straightforward. The list seems to have lost its bite (if it ...[Read on] |
Sexism and Masculinity in Disney Movies
|
It’s not only the girls who are screwed up by the Disney movies with their princesses galore and pink sterotypes, it’s the boys who get it too.
Here’s a great video that pulls back the curtain on why these films screw with boys too.
Way to go Sa...[Read on] |
You Give Me One Dollar, I’ll Earn You $44
 |
Sometimes I don’t know how Forbes comes up with all these lists that they run. Here is their latest. Actresses who provide the biggest bang for the buck.
The woman who provides the biggest bang for the buck is Naomi Watts. She doesn’t star in b...[Read on] |
Vote for the Best Films of the Decade
|
Creative Screenwriting has put together a poll for the best films of the decade. Here’s your chance to vote for some women. Voting ends Friday.
Well, it’s been a great decade for films, be it big (The Dark Knight) or small (Slumdog Millionaire).
...[Read on] |
Where's Cinderella?
| "Me and Caroline (her sister who is 2 and more into Elmo aka "Mel Mo") like Areil best". So I stood there looking at these plastic toys never having seen any of the movies (I wasn't a deprived kid, we just played more than we sat in front of a...[Read on] |
Women Matter at the Box Office
|
The LA Times takes a look at the summer season so far. Things started off very hot (Star Trek) but have cooled off considerably. Here’s what they’ve learned:
Women make a difference
Female ticket buyers made up nearly half of the audience for th...[Read on] |
Iron Man 2 does well with women
 |
I am not surprised that Iron Man 2 has been luring in the ladies. And I really don’t understand why Hollywood is surprised either. Robert Downey Jr. is one of the actors who women like. Here’s a guy who had been down a bunch of times but has man...[Read on] |
Where we are as women (in Film)
|
There must be something in the water because over the last week there have been several substantive pieces and one panel (which I will blog about later) discussing women and film. These discussions are not new, they happen all the time, but having two p...[Read on] |
Cannes news about women directors
 |
The good news is that as the Cannes Film Festival has started the press is still asking questions about why there are no women in competition.
Here are some pieces that I found that address the topic.
Jury President Tim Burton in an interview with the N...[Read on] |
Anticipation Grows for Julie & Julia
 |
This summer as usual is full of big action packed blockbusters AND for the second year in a row (and the last 3 out of 4 years) a Meryl Streep flick. I still wish we would get over the whole counterprogramming and fluke discussion. The thing I love mo...[Read on] |
|
|
