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Submissions open for first-ever Tucker Center Film Festival
Calling all filmmakers. If you’re an aspiring Steven Spielberg (or better yet Kathryn Bigel0w) then you’ll want to know about the first-ever Tucker Center Film Festival.
Presented with University of Minnesota Athletics, the festival will take place ...more
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Women’s stories dominate Venice Film Festival
Michelle Williams in Meek's Cutoff
In a very interesting piece in Variety writer Justin Chang says that it is the Year of the Woman at the Venice Film Festival. He starts off talking about the stark sexuality that he has seen in some movies. Films ...more
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The London Film Festival Announces Its Lineup
The fall festivals are finalizing their lineups and what has become clear to me as I track the films and the presence of women directors is that the festivals usually have a core list of films that go from festival to festival as they make their runs to...more
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Women’s Summer Box Office Recap
The weather is changing here in NYC, the kids are getting ready to go back to school and the fall film festivals are upon us, so before too much time passes let’s take a look at how women fared this summer at the box office.
We all know that in gener...more
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Telluride Film Fest Lineup: Very Few Women Directors
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 ...more
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Trailer: Black Swan
Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis star as competing ballerinas. This film looks at little like The Turning Point meets Single White Female.
Why do women always have to try and kill their competition?
Still, it looks good. One of the better trailers I...more
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Interview with Kiran Deol – Director of Woman Rebel
There’s been a twitter conversation this morning about how few shows on HBO have women leads. While they might not be great with series about women, they have done a number of fantastic and interesting documentaries about women.
That continues tonigh...more
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is Rooney Mara
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...more
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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...more
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Saturday Reading: What if "The Expendables" Were Women
From FlavorWire
The Expendables opens today, and if you didn’t know already, it’s an action movie that features a leather bag brimming with bundled cash, a helpless woman with an accent, and lots of bad-ass dudes dressed in black running around kill...more
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Eat Pray Love
Elizabeth Gilbert was miserable. She crashed out of her marriage, careened into another relationship way too quickly and was just overwhelmed and seriously fucked up. She needed a change — not just a haircut or new clothes — a fundamental change...more
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Jennifer Aniston is not destructive to our society
A big Friday fuck you to Bill O’Reilly for calling Jennifer Aniston destructive to our society and diminishing the role of dads when making comments in promotion of her new film The Switch.
The film is about a woman who decides to get pregnant with a...more
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Frances McDormand Takes on a New Role – Producer
Actress Frances McDormand can add an new title to her resume – producer now that she has optioned two books.
The first is the Pulitzer Prize winning book Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. She purchased the book before it won the Pulitzer. Jan...more
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Women in Prison- Healthcare and Childbirth
Pop culture observers have seen the semi-popular movie Changeling featuring world mega-star Angelina Jolie and directed by world mega-icon Clint Eastwood. The plot of the film chronicles the true life story of a woman who’s son was kidnapped and replac...more
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Bill O'Reilly Is (Still) An Asshole
I know its never good to take to heart the words of a bigot- so I won't . Yet I can't help sharing this clip: a despicable piece within which O'Reilly claims Jennifer Aniston's honest words on single parenthood, are "destructive to society".
Watch are...more
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Halle Berry Gets Back to Work (and Covers Vogue)
Halle Berry hasn’t been in a movie in several years, hasn’t done an interview in over three, yet she could not resist the call that came in to be on the cover of September’s Vogue.
Halle is the first woman of color to be on the cover of a Septemb...more
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