Opening This Week
It’s a good thing the weather will be nice in the east cause there are slim pickings at the movies this weekend. I have no interest in the new Terminator and if I see Night at the Museum 2, and that’s a big if, it will be to see Amy Adams as Amelia Earhart. Personally, I can wait to get my Amelia fix until this fall when Mira Nair’s Amelia starring Hillary Swank opens.
Easy Virtue opens opens on the art house circuit starring Jessica Biel, Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas. I didn’t see a preview but with Firth and Scott Thomas in it, I could be convinced to plunk down some money.
Here’s the description from the press materials: The twenties have roared…the thirties have yet to swing. John Whittaker, a young Englishman, falls madly in love with Larita, a sexy and glamorous American woman, and they marry impetuously. However when the couple returns to the family home, his mother Mrs. Whittaker has an instant allergic reaction to her new daughter-in-law. Larita tries her best to fit in but fails to tiptoe through the minefield laid by her mother-in-law. Larita quickly realizes Mrs. Whittaker’s game and sees that she must fight back if she’s not going to lose John. A battle of wits ensues and sparks soon fly. Mrs. Whittaker manipulates every situation to undermine her, while Larita remains frustratingly calm and engineers sassy counter attacks. Before long, Mrs. Whittaker’s manipulation starts to work on John and Larita feels their love is in danger of slipping away. In a grand finale, where the secrets from Larita’s past are revealed, she finally makes a break for freedom from the suffocating house…..
Also opening- Kabei: Our Mother: The latest film from Yôji Yamada depicts the strong bond between a mother and her family during WWII. Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her two daughters with the support of Shigeru’s sister Hisako and Shigeru’s ex-student Yamazaki, but her husband does not return. WWII breaks out and casts dark shadows on the entire country, but Kayo still tries to keep her cheerful determination, and sustains the family with her love. This is an emotional drama of a mother and an eternal message for peace. (NY- Quad cinemas)
Films Currently in Theatres
Julia
American Violet
The Lemon Tree
Sunshine Cleaning
Duplicity
Pray the Devil Back to Hell- various screenings check website
Women Directed Films
Milton Glaser, directed by Wendy Keys (NY)
Sugar- directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck
On Star Trek
“…one gave birth, one was a mother, and one was a girlfriend.” Horrendous. Of course, women never do this….
And they’re all wearing high skirts. Hello! For someone who says that she grew up on Star Trek, you fail to mention that this lastest film, on the timeline, is BEFORE the original TV series. So, given that the TV series shows women in less than strong female roles during the time of 1960s Second Wave Feminism–skirt length and all–you are disgruntled that women are not shown in a way that would break the continuity of character that the series is originally built on? What are you expecting? Oh, wait, yeah–Battlestar Gallactica!
Hi Rich,
Your being a sexist jerk. Your ignorance and your misogyny are showing in your comment. There, now you can’t say no one told you.
Star Trek takes place in the FUTURE not in the past. Film is a creative medium, the Star Trek franchise had an opportunity to achieve greatness and it didn’t.
from the comments on the post about Star trek:
“Were the male characters depicted as the father, boyfriend, or at a birth?
I bet their characters were well developed, their roles were action packed, they were the leaders and the heroes.”
In my life and in my stories, women are more than furniture and accessories- we are leaders, teachers, hero’s, losers, champions, we are multi-faceted individuals-
unlike the female “characters” in Star Trek.
Очень познавательно. Спасибо.