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Lynne Meadow Celebrates 40 Years as Artistic Director of Manhattan Theatre Club
Lynne Meadow has been a force of New York theatre for the last 40 years. She has taken the Manhattan Theatre Club from the Upper East Side to Broadway. She was the first women accepted into the...
Trailer Watch: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry Directed by Alison Klayman
Ai WeiWei: Never Sorry opened the Human Right Watch Film Festival in NY and will be in theatres on July 27th.
Happy 40th Birthday Title IX
This past weekend was the 40th anniversary of Title IX. This is a big deal. What most people don’t know is that Title IX is not an actual law — it is one section of the of the Educational...
Trailer Watch: Celeste and Jesse Forever — co-written by Rashida Jones
Looks adorable. Opens August 3.
Trailer Watch: Anna Karenina
My favorite book comes to the big screen again. This version opens November 9.
Trailer Watch: First Real Trailer For Breaking Dawn Part 2
Looks like Bella finally got some energy. I guess once she became a vampire it was ok for her to run outside and not fall over her own two feet. Becoming a vampire clearly makes you less clumsy. Film...
Trailer Watch: Two Days in New York — Written and Directed by Julie Delpy
This is Delpy’s follow-up to 2 Days in Paris. Opens August 10 in theatres.
Girls Season One Ends: Check Out This Interview with Lena Dunham
The first season of Girls came to a close last night. This pop culture tour de force has become the zeitgeist hit of the moment. I am beyond impressed with what they have accomplished. I am on the...
Barbra Streisand Raises Awareness of Women’s Heart Disease
Streisand held a huge fundraiser at her home last night to raise money for women’s heart disease. She has endowed the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center at Cedars-Sinai hospital in LA. Did you...
Trailer Watch: For a Good Time, Call…Written By Lauren Miller and Katie Anne Naylon
This was a big hit at Sundance. Could it be this year’s Bridesmaids? The film opens August 31. Yahoo! Video Player
Fasten Your Seatbelts: Political Animals is Coming
Folks it looks like this miniseries will kick some serious ass. Maybe it will be another pop culture force that will help bang the gong for Hillary Clinton in 2016. The miniseries premieres on July...
A Love Letter to All Trolls and Haters
From Clever Pie and Isabel Fay
Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister Jones Show Their Love for the Rom Com
I only wish I had liked their movie Lola Versus as much as I liked this. The film opens today. https://medium.com/media/953227e1b885b5b6ab457d50f491ecf2/href Facebook
New Clip From Beasts of the Southern Wild
I saw this film last night. I was totally and completely blown away. I can’t even articulate my reaction to it right now. One of the most interesting, different and without a doubt one of the best...
Trailer Watch: Shadow Dancer
Starring Andrea Riseborough a single mom running with the IRA. It premiered at Sundance and will open in the UK on August 25 and will open in the US in 2013. Description from imdb: “Set in 1990s...
Sarah Jessica Parker Hosting Dinner for Obama
And one grassroots supporter will get a paid trip to NYC and will have dinner with Parker, the President, the First Lady and probably a bunch of other high profile New Yorkers. Hope those people...
Jane Fonda Talks About Her Life on the Eve of the Release of Peace Love and Misunderstanding
I’m the lucky girl who gets to go to the premiere tonight. Here she is talking to CBS This Morning. The film opens on Friday.
Trailer Watch: Les Miserables
Not woman centric but the trailer features Anne Hathaway singing I Dreamed a Dream. This looks really great. Opens December 7. h/t The Playlist
Trailer Watch: Fast Girls
Just in time for the Olympics here come Fast Girls. Could this be a new Bend it Like Beckham? Opens in the UK on June 15.
Viola Davis Gets Honorary Degree from Providence College
Viola Davis received an honorary doctorate degree from Providence College. She also gave the commencement address. Great lines: Your authentic self is constantly trapped under the weight of the most...
See Jennifer Garner in Serena
This is the first short from WIGS a new You Tube channel created by Jon Avnet (Fried Green Tomatoes) and Rodrigo Garcia (Albert Nobbs). Here’s the description: WIGS is an innovative new YouTube...
Jane Lynch Gives The Commencement Address at Smith: Yes, And
One moment from the speech: You will have many opportunities to embrace what the world has for you. I can’t wait to see the ways in which you say “AND.” Remember that Smith Woman entitlement I...
Cannes Watch: Woman With a Camera
Here’s a video that interviews women about the lack of women directors in Cannes. It is created by Donna Don. Here’s why she made it: To draw attention to the appalling low number of female...
Cannes Trailer Watch: The Sapphires
The film premiered to wild applause in Cannes. The Weinstein Company has already snapped this Australian film up. It opens in Australia in August. The rest of the world TBD. Here’s the description...
Kristen Wiig Says Goodbye to SNL After Seven Years
She can now be a full time moviestar. NBC.com Video Widget
Trailer Watch: Won’t Back Down
This is my kind of movie. It stars Maggie Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, and Holly Hunter. Look for it in Theatres September 28. Yahoo! Video Player
Trailer Watch: Forbidden Voices — Directed by Barbara Miller
An incredibly moving story of three women bloggers fighting to keep telling the truth. As First Lady Michelle Obama says: “courage can actually be contagious.” This film opened in Switzerland...
Funny or Die: Don’t You Want Your Dad in Your Vagina?
These people at Funny or Die are really doing a great job of keeping this issue in focus and making sure we see how absurd it is. This one stars Kate Beckinsale, Judy Greer,...
Trailer Watch: Beast of the Southern Wild
This is the film that won the top narrative prize at Sundance. It stars newcomer Quvenzhané Wallis. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a trailer quite like this. I am looking forward to this one. It...
Video Watch: Shit Girls Say About the Show Girls
Produced by Rex (Rachael Mason, Kerry McGuire, Stephanie Bencin). Girls just got renewed for a second season. h/t Laura Shields
Trailer Watch: Peace Love and Misunderstanding
Jane Fonda as a hippie in Woodstock. Film is on opens and is available on VOD on June 8. Yahoo! Video Player
Trailer Watch: The Perfect Family Directed by Anne Renton
Film Opens May 4 Yahoo! Video Player
Trailer Watch: Hope Springs Starring Meryl Streep
What do you think about this one. It opens in the slot in August where movies targeted at women like Julie & Julia and The Help have been quite successful. It’s directed by the same guy who did...
Trailer Watch: Romeo & Juliet in Yiddish Directed by Eve Annenberg
Synopsis: Eve Annenberg’s gritty, funny new feature stars predominantly non-actor twenty somethings who grew up speaking Yiddish as a first language in Brooklyn. This is possibly the first...
Trailer Watch: Brave
Looks like this will be Pixar’s one shot at a film about a girl because they released the list of the next couple of movies and NONE are about women and NONE are directed by women. We’ve got the...
Trailer Watch: Virginia
Opens May 18.
Must Watch Video: Funny or Die Dudes Go All Feminist
https://medium.com/media/a6273705bdf8a1cc59284e6b14f33baa/href Facebook h/t Anna Vanvalin
There is Hope for the Future: Tavi Gevinson’s TedxTeen Talk
Tavi embraces feminism and is way smarter than most people about pop culture at the rip old age of 15. Her advice- just be Stevie Nicks. Check out her magazine — Rookie for teen girls.
Ashley Judd Continues the Conversation on the Misogynistic Media
Here’s what she said: I think it’s the objectification of girls and women and the hypersexualization of our society that invites the criticism. We are anesthetized to it. She wants us all to...
Tribeca Trailer Watch: Billy Bates — Directed by Jennifer De Lia
Trailer Watch: First Position — Directed by Bess Kargman
This looks terrific. It will hit theatres on May 4th. Also look for it on demand. First Position
Tribeca Trailer Watch: Wagner’s Dream Directed By Susan Froemke
The film will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday, April 25, followed by its worldwide theatrical release on May 7 — a one-day ticketed event as part of The Met: Live in...
Trailer Watch: Sparkle
Watching this made me sad about Whitney Houston all over again. Opens August 10. Yahoo! Video Player
Trailer Watch: Nurse Jackie — Season Four
Nurse Jackie returns for its fourth season on April 8 at 9pm on Showtime. Edie Falco’s got a new haircut and she’s drug free. The show is created by Liz Bixius and Linda Wallem This is gonna...
Trailer Watch: Breaking Dawn Part 2 Teaser
The saga will conclude next Thanksgiving. Looks like Bella’s going to have some fun in this one.
Teaser Trailer: The Host
This is from Stephenie Meyer the writer of the Twilight saga. It stars Saoirse Ronan and will open March 29, 2013. Here’s the description on Deadline: Saoirse Ronan stars as Melanie Stryder, one of...
Season Two of The Killing Returns April 1
Mad Men, Game of Thrones and now The Killing all returning within the next two weeks. Awesome. As the tag line says, The Killing is just the beginning. Can’t wait to see what Veena Sud and company...
Exclusive: Mad Men — Set Me Free
In this remix musical, the women of Mad Men get together to sing the 1966 Diana Ross hit, Keep Me Hanging On. A metaphor for both the rigid gender roles of the time and the much anticipated season of...
Trailer Watch: New Snow White and the Huntsman Trailer
It’s all about Charlize vs Kristen. https://medium.com/media/44c117fa08eaff6d962dabbeeb3e0bfb/href
A Pick Me Up for A Cloudy Day: Bernadette Peters Sings Mama Rose on Smash
NBC.com Video Widget
Producer Watch: Nina Jacobson at the Premiere of The Hunger Games
Nina Jacobson has been around Hollywood for a while. She’s one of a handful of women to run a studio having run Buena Vista Studios at Disney until 2006. She’s about to come on everyone’s...