Flix Not To Miss: The Bling Ring & Spring Breakers
Young women turning to a life of crime for kicks – a popular subject in two recent films that make a great double bill. In theaters now, The Bling Ring is Sophia Coppola’s follow up to the spectacular Somewhere (2010). The Bling Ring tells the true story of a group of California teenagers who break into celebrity homes while...
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Two is Just Too Many Women for Spiderman to Deal With | Women and Hollywood http://t.co/x6dC59SlNO — Melissa Silverstein (@melsil) June 19, 2013 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js From the @NYWIFT list NYWIFT Members. – @annelabarba
READ MOREFlix Not to Miss: Fish Tank
Fish Tank written and directed by Andrea Arnold was a break out hit for one of its stars Michael Fassbender and it put Arnold on the map as a director when it won a BAFTA award for Outstanding British Film. Fish Tank stars Katie Jarvis (Mia) as a 15 year old girl living in a...
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Muckraking Journalist Filmmaker Laura Poitras: Ahead of Surveillance Scandal, Making War on Terror Doc with Assange: bit.ly/109X6fh — Laurens Grant (@LaurensGrant) June 11, 2013 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js From the @NYWIFT list Women-Driven Films –@annelabarba
READ MORELAFF Spotlights Female Editors
LA Film Festival Director Stephanie Allain We’re excited to read in a Variety article that the LA Film Festival will be spotlighting the achievements of women in the film industry: “Stephanie Allain, in her second year as the festival director, says the fest aims to celebrate the contributions of women each year, with 2013 featuring...
READ MOREAdvice to Beginning Female Filmmakers
The advice to young female filmmakers in this Film Courage video by filmmakers Elle Schneider and Lily Cade, is good advice to women in the industry in general: Be compatriots not competitors. Don’t get so wrapped up in “it’s a man’s world.” Don’t encourage the tokenism. More than one woman can be in the writer’s...
READ MOREFlix Not to Miss: ‘Take This Waltz’
I’ve been a fan of Sarah Polley as an actress from the early days of her career as Atom Egoyan’s muse in The Sweet Hereafter and Exotica, and later, in the lovely My Life Without Me by Isabel Coixet. I heard wonderful things about her first feature, Away From Her, so I was excited to see her sophomore effort, Take...
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If This Young Woman Was In My Fashion Magazines Growing Up, Maybe I’d Still Read Them bit.ly/13E2mVF #MissRep via @upworthy — Miss Representation (@RepresentPledge) June 5, 2013 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Ainee Fatima, the first hijabi to be featured in Seventeen magazine: From the @NYWIFT public list Women-Driven Films. Miss Representation is a documentary film and international campaign....
READ MOREAfter 50 Years, Will We Finally Get a Woman Doctor Who?
Helen Mirren wants to be the next Doc (we love this idea!). Big news this week for Doctor Who fans: the show’s lead actor is out the door. For those who don’t watch the British hit series, Slate’s XX factor breaks it down: The Doctor is basically immortal. In the biggest power grab in the history of...
READ MORECannes Can’t Seem to Get it Right With Women
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, director of Un Chateau En Italie (A Castle in Italy). Photo via Norde Claire. Never one to mince words, the Women and Hollywood blog held not only Cannes accountable this year but also many of the male attendees, who’s offhanded comments do nothing to raise the profile of women in the industry. This...
READ MOREClothes on Film
Goldie Hawn and Walter Matthau in Cactus Flower via Clothes on Film. We hope NYWIFT’s Designing Women Awards prompted a new interest in the hardworking women and men whose choices help bring characters to life with the flick of a scarf or a swish of a skirt. To keep your costume senses tingling until Designing Women 2014,...
READ MOREA Decline in Influence of Female Film Critics
Judith Crist became the first full-time female critic at any major newspaper when she joined The New York Herald Tribune as their film critic in 1963. She passed in 2012. (Source: Women in Hollywood) Last week the Alliance of Women Film Journalists and Variety posted articles on research conducted by the Center for the Study of Women in Film and Television’s Executive...
READ MOREMilitary Movie Pick: ‘Private Benjamin’ (1980)
If you’re in the mood for a lighthearted look at the military wrapped in pure 1980s camp, watch — or if you’re like me, re-watch — Private Benjamin. Co-written by Nancy Meyers, the film stars Goldie Hawn as a high-society widow (spoiler: the groom doesn’t make it through the wedding night) who chucks it all...
READ MOREFashionista on Designing Women & Dressing ‘The Americans’
Left: Jenny Gering, Lori Hicks, and Peg Schierholz (photo credit: Cindy Ord, Getty). Right: Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell in The Americans. Fashion news site Fashionista caught up with the design team behind FX’s popular spy drama at Thursday’s awards show: …a few of us have also gotten sucked into The Americans on FX — and not just because of the drama-filled...
READ MORETV Preview: Rebel Wilson’s ‘Super Fun Night’
Created by and starring Rebel Wilson, ABC’s upcoming sitcom Super Fun Night looks like a winner. Wilson plays one of three friends who spend their Friday nights “always together! always inside!” — until they’re motivated to take the party outside, diving into the craziness that is New York nightlife. — MICHELE DAGLE
READ MORE‘Brave’ Gets Disney-Princessfied
Photo via The Guardian. Oscar-winning ‘Brave’ Director/Writer Brenda Chapman is slamming Disney for sexualizing the animated film’s hero, Merida, for an upcoming toy line. With a cinched waist, low-cut gown, and sans bow and arrows, the once-realistic role model now looks like every other “perfect” princess in the Disney lineup. “I think it’s atrocious what...
READ MOREMother’s Day Movie: ‘Mermaids’ (1990)
An ode to complex mother-daughter relationships, Mermaids stars Cher as an offbeat, fun-loving mother to serious teen Winona Ryder and 9-year-old Christina Ricci. Cher recently celebrated her own amazing mother with Dear Mom, Love Cher on Lifetime. — MICHELE DAGLE
READ MOREFlix Not to Miss: ‘Eden’
Eden is a harrowing look at the sex trafficking industry here in the United States. Directed by Megan Griffiths, Eden won Griffiths the 2012 Chicken & Egg Emergent Narrative Director Award at SXSW Film Festival. Based on a true story, the film follows Eden (played by Jamie Chung), a young Asian teenager living in the United States lured...
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