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Elizabeth Taylor — A True Hollywood Legend
In the world of icons in Hollywood Elizabeth Taylor stands on her own. It seems that everything that endures in Hollywood she did first. She got treated for alcoholism and drug addiction and spoke...
Fey on Gay
Must watch piece from the GLAAD Awards this weekend where Tina got an award.
Winter’s Bone Q and A
Here’s the Q and A from the Athena Film Festival with Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini and moderated by IndieWIRE’s Anne Thompson of Thompson on Hollywood. People are asking some great questions.
Jodie Foster and The Beaver
Last week Jodie Foster flew into Austin, Texas from Paris set of Gods of Carnage directed by Roman Polanski (don’t get me started) to attend the premiere of The Beaver, her latest directing...
International Women’s Film Festival in Germany Announces Lineup
The International Women’s Film Festival in Dortmund Germany has announced the eight films that will be in competition for International Feature Film Competition for Women Directors. The Oscar...
Trailer Watch: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Interview With Daphne Pinkerson, Director, Triangle: Remembering The Fire
Tonight, at 9pm EST, HBO will premiere a new doc Triangle: Remembering the Fire in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Fire which killed 146 people mostly all young immigrant women...
First Look: Sexed Up Wonder Woman
Here’s the first picture of Adrianne Palicki as the crime fighting Wonder Woman. The costume looks like a Halloween costume. A little too much for me.
Guest Post: Tales From a First-Time Director at the Oscars by Sara Nesson
The last time you heard from me (which was also the first) was after the Oscar Nominees Luncheon when I got to revel in my new friendship with Geoffrey Rush. Now, two weeks post Academy Awards, I am...
Interview with Doris Yeung, Director of Motherland
Motherland played Outfest in 2009. The film tells the story of the price of the American dream. It opens this weekend for a run in NYC at the Quad Cinema. Doris will be at the Quad Cinema for a Q and...
A Distribution Success Story: I Will Follow — Written and Directed by Ava DuVernay
I started seeing information about I Will Follow a little over a week ago on twitter. People were sending me tweets about the opening and then they forwarded a very positive review from Roger Ebert....
Guest Post: Desert Flower Review by Melissa Silvestri
Desert Flower is a deeply emotional drama (with light comedic moments) that tells the true story of Waris Dirie, a Somali woman who had undergone female genital mutilation at 3 years old, escaped her...
New Bridesmaids Trailer
This looks even better than the first one.
Interview with Sherry Hormann, Director of Desert Flower
Desert Flower opens this Friday in NY and LA. It stars Liya Kebede as Waris Dirie, a woman who escaped from Somalia and became a top fashion model and UN spokeswoman against female genital...
Drew Barrymore Gets New Directing Gig
I am so glad to read that Drew Barrymore has signed on to direct a new film. BUT I am none too pleased that this could be a redo of He’s Just Not That Into You (which was dreadful). Barrymore and...
Guest Post: No Line for the Ladies Room… But That’s Actually Awesome by Emily Dell
The porcelain is pristine in the ladies room at GDC — the Game Developer Conference, the largest conference of digital game designers in the world, held recently in San Francisco. At first it...
Tribeca Film Festival — Lineup Part 2
The Tribeca Film Festival announced the lineups for the Spotlight, CinemaMania Section and Special screenings yesterday. The CinemaMania section has eight films and none are directed by women....
Spend St. Patrick’s Day at This is Ireland in Los Angeles
One of the areas where women are lacking in visibility is in the area of conducting and composing. This Thursday, in honor of St. Patrick’s Day composer and conductor Eimear Noone has put together...
Sucker Punch Meets The Disney Princesses
I have no idea whether Sucker Punch will be worthy, but the the it definitely spices up the bland Disney Princesses h/t Movieline
25 Year Old Amanda Seyfried Told She Needs Botox
Amanda Seyfried underwhelmed at the box office this weekend with Red Riding Hood. It took in 14 million and came in third at the box office. Seyfried revealed in an interview with Elle Magazine that...
New Study from Quebec Finds Female Directors Face Tough Road Getting Films Made
A new study released last week by Anna Lupien and Francine Descarries, researchers at the Université du Québec à Montréal in partnership with the Réalisatrices équitables an association of...
The DGA Celebrates International Women’s Day with a Tribute to Kathryn Bigelow by Laura J. Shapiro
The DGA and its Women’s Steering Committee celebrated International Women’s Day on Tuesday night with a heartfelt tribute to director Kathryn Bigelow as part of their year long 75th Anniversary...
Red Riding Hood — Review
You have to give it to Catherine Hardwicke. She specializes in making movies for teenage girls. She seems to be able channel that teen angst and language better than anyone else. The problem is that...
Noticing Sexism
This just really annoyed me this morning. And it was at the top of a story about Catherine Hardwicke. Couldn’t it say say for your inner fan? Why does it have to be for fanboys only?
Jane Eyre — Review
The moment you see Jane running through the Moors breathless you are sucked into her world. Jane Eyre is played by Mia Wasikowska, in another stellar performance (The Kids Are All Right,) proving she...
Julie Taymor Exits Spider-Man Musical
Reports were confirmed last night that director Julie Taymor has departed the Spider-man musical which she had been working on for years. The visionary directory who rose to the stratosphere of her...
Sneak Preview: Interview with Susanne Bier
Here’s a brief snippet of my interview with Susanne Bier, Academy Award winning director of In a Better World. The film opens here in the US on April 1. The full interview will be up in a week...
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Gabourey Sidibe
Gabourey Sidibe’s new film Yelling to the Sky had its world premiere last month in Berlin. This month it premieres stateside as SXSW. When doing press for the film in Berlin, Sidibe talked about...
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Michelle Rodriguez
I love how this woman is able to talk about the roles women play in Hollywood because she doesn’t play them. She entered into the business in Girlfight and has been the action go to girl since...
Tribeca Film Festival Competition Lineup- 2011
The 10th anniversary of the Tribeca Film Festival will take place next month starting April 20th. They have started rolling out the lineup. Here are the women directed films from the World Narrative...
Recent Media Pieces
Here are some cool pieces that I was interviewed for: Oscar Watch: The Most Powerful Women Of The 2011 Academy Awards — ForbesWoman Pre-Oscar Radio piece from Uptown radio Feminism, Film and...
Thelma and Louise and What Could Have Been
When you spend so much time online one thing that suffers is off line reading. So, I am perpetually playing catch up to things that can’t be read online. One of the pieces I just caught up with is...
Happy 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day
Here’s to hoping there is a time when women are treated equally. When we don’t have to fight twice as hard for half the pie. For girls to be able to go to school without regard for being...
Are We Equals?
With Daniel Craig- voice over by Dame Judi Dench. Directed by Sam Taylor-Wood. AWESOME
Check Out Tina Brown’s First Newsweek Cover
Bold move. The first female Newsweek editor puts a woman (Hillary Clinton) on her first cover. Tomorrow is the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day and in honor of that, Newsweek has a...
Opening Night at the Athena Film Festival
Pepsico’s WIN (Women’s Inspiration Network) was one of the sponsors of the Athena Film Festival. They took some great footage and edited together short pieces throughout the weekend. Here’s the...
The Girls on Film Presents The Town
It’s not like Hollywood is pulling the wool over anyone’s eyes when it comes to the gender disparity. But these young men and women have taken it to a whole different level. I got turned onto to...
Catherine Hardwicke Walked Away From New Moon
They has been much speculation as to whether Catherine Hardwicke was fired or walked away from the Twilight sequel, New Moon. But nobody ever heard from Catherine Hardwicke what actually happened. In...
Emily Blunt Does Not Want To Be The Girlfriend in a Comic Book Film
I could not love this young woman anymore. Everything I’ve seen her in has been fantastic. If you haven’t seen her debut in My Summer of Love you are missing something. She’s been on the junket...
The Culture Wars Are Back: Mike Huckabee Slams Natalie Portman For Being Single and Pregnant
The steam is coming out of my ears. It’s like deja vu. Twenty years ago we had Dan Quayle going after Candice Bergen on Murphy Brown and now we have Mike Huckabee going after...
Julie Taymor Talks About The Struggle With Spiderman
Julie Taymor has been in NY working non-stop on trying to get the Spiderman Musical to a place where it can finally open. The knives have been out for some time for many reasons. One, this is the...
Three Vie for Next Female Franchise
Variety reported yesterday that three Oscar nominated young actresses Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin and Jennifer Lawrence are all in the race to play the lead in The Hunger Games based on the...
More Good News on Bridesmaids
This film is shaping up to be the one of the movies I am most looking forward to seeing this year. Now I know that it is a movie about a wedding, and I have said that I would be perfectly fine with...
Angelina Jolie in Afghanistan
Bravo for her to keep raising awareness about the plight of refugees. It’s heartening that not everyone in the world knows who she is and that she could care less. At the end of the piece the...
Guest Post: Premiering Yelling to the Sky at the Berlin Film Festival by Victoria Mahoney
The freakiest thing about indie filmmakers is that we are bred and conditioned for harsh news. We wake up to 32,000 “nos” a day, and self-preservation protects us from the ambush of let down. We...
Applications Now Open for Women in Film Finishing Fund
Hey lady filmmakers- if your film is ready to go but you can’t raise that last bit to finish it, you should apply to the Women in Film Finishing Fund sponsored by Netflix. You could get a grant of...
Trailer Watch: Miral
The updated trailer — film will open in the US this spring
The Dirty Little Secret in Hollywood
There is a power disparity in Hollywood. A big one. The men have got it. It is never more evident when one of the most high profile people exhibits behavior that makes the whole country and society...
Guest Post: Whither the Feminist Comedy Fan? by Emilie Spiegel
Last week’s 30 Rock raised a lot of questions about the messy and complicated relationship between feminism and comedy. As Rebecca Traister at Salon notes, it’s laudable to see a major network...
Actress Rosamund Pike Talks About Women (in Film) and Ambition
This is from the launch of the Bird’s Eye View Film Festival. The festival is in London from March 8–17.
Tilda a No Go at HBO
This is the second Diane Keaton project that has not made it to series at HBO. First was the Marti Noxon pilot script where she was to play a “Gloria Steinem” like magazine editor who starts a...