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Trailer Watch: A Family and a Nation Face Crises in Natalie Portman’s ‘A Tale of Love and Darkness’
Athena List 2016 Seeking Submissions of Scripts with Women in Leadership Roles
The Athena Film Festival team is seeking scripts for the 2016 edition of the Athena List. An integral part of the festival’s celebration of women and leadership, the Athena List is an annual...
Natalie Portman Insisted on Woman Director for Ruth Bader Ginsburg Biopic
Ruth Bader Ginsburg shed some light on the upcoming biopic about her in an interview with her former clerk, California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu, this past Saturday. Starring Natalie...
Natalie Portman on the “Vanity” of Women’s Movies (Bonus: Watch a Clip from Her Directorial Debut)
“I had wanted to direct for as long as I can remember,” recalled Natalie Portman in a Cannes interview to promote her first film, “A Tale of Love and Darkness.” But the Oscar-winning was...
Cannes Announces 2015 Lineup; 5 Women Directors to Compete; Natalie Portman Makes Filmmaking Debut
Unlike many other film festivals of its caliber, Cannes has never been a great place to see works by women. A new announcement of the current 2015 lineup reveals that continues to be the case at...
Producers of Jane Got a Gun Sue Lynne Ramsay
The saga of Jane Got a Gun and Lynne Ramsay continues and it’s not pretty. If you recall, Lynne Ramsay left the production right before the start of production. Reports were that Ramsay never got...
Natalie Portman Gives Some Real Talk About Feminist Portrayals in Hollywood
Natalie Portman, in an interview for Elle UK, gave some surprisingly blunt real talk about what Hollywood considers feminist portrayals of female characters. Portman has been outspoken about wanting...
Forbes Releases Hollywood’s Highest Paid Actresses List
Forbes recently released their annual highest paid actress list. The list is unfortunately, unsurprisingly very white and very young. And several of the actresses such as Angelina Jolie and Natalie...
Natalie Portman to Direct, Write and Star in A Tale of Love and Darkness
Natalie Portman just received a grant from the Jerusalem Film Fund to write, direct and star in an adaptation of Amos Oz’s memoir, A Tale of Love and Darkness. Taking place in the 1940s...
Today’s Disconnect – Do Actresses Have Clout or Not?
Last week when I was in LA I read the following two articles on the same day. NY Times: On Newsstands, Allure of the Film Actress Fades and the Hollywood Reporter: Revenge...
Details Emerge on Lynne Ramsay’s Exit
We’ve been talking a lot about Lynne Ramsay here at Women and Hollywood since her departure from Jane Got a Gun last week. Confirmed details are still scarce, but rumors and commentary have...
More Lynne Ramsay News
As expected, the initial reports of the Lynne Ramsay departure from Jane Got a Gun were very sketchy. More details are coming out, among them the important detail that Ramsay did not just NOT...
Natalie Portman to Team Up with Lynne Ramsay for Western
Natalie Portman was one of the people who was most excited about Patty Jenkins getting the gig to direct Thor 2. When that fell through one could imagine that she might still be interested in...
Natalie Portman Takes Her Oscar Win Out for a Test Run
While Natalie Portman might have been off our radar screen since last February when she won the best actress Oscar and disappeared to have her baby, yesterday we learned through the Hollywood...