Jenny Halper

Jenny Halper is the film editor of Spare Change News, a Cambridge bi-monthly dedicated to empowering the homeless. She's written for the Boston Phoenix, Boston Now, NewEnglandFilm.com, amNewYork, Beliefnet, Cinema Confidential, Park Slope Reader, and Knit Simple Magazine, among others, and has served as a film critic/entertainment reporter for Track Entertainment and ClickFlicks.net. Her fiction has appeared in journals including Smokelong Quarterly and New England Fiction Meeting House, and has been a finalist for prizes from Glimmer Train and the Sonora Review. A graduate of Northwestern University, she'is currently earning an MFA at Emerson College.

Articles by Jenny Halper

Top Ten 2012 - Jenny Halper

Les Miserables
Argo
Rust and Bone
Skyfall
Looper
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Deep Blue Sea
Compliance
Hysteria
Ginger and Rosa

General Archives, Women on Film

AWFJ Women On Film - Anne Heche on Cedar Rapids, Comedy and Being A Redhead - Jenny Halper interviews

When Miguel Arteta’s broadly, sweetly funny Cedar Rapids opens Friday, Anne Heche, who stars as the sole woman in a group of misbehaving insurance agents, might finally get her nationwide due as the gifted comedian she’s technically been for the last fifteen years.

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AWFJ Women On Film - Juliette Lewis On Movies and Music - Jenny Halper interviews

The most striking thing about actress and rocker Juliette Lewis is that she’s so wonderfully herself, whether she’s calling an audience her own “band of misfits” or describing her affinity for empathy – a trait that shows up in all her onscreen work. Read the rest of this entry »

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AWFJ Women On Film - Anthony Edwards on Jogging, Filmmaking and Philanthropy - Jenny Halper interviews

Upon finishing his eight year starring stint on television’s popular ER series, Anthony Edwards took his wife and children on a trip around the world. While they were visiting Kenya, Edwards went for a jog with a young Masai Warrior named Lettura. Read the rest of this entry »

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AWFJ Women On Film - Vera Farmiga Chats About “Up In The Air” - Jenny Halper Interviews

Vera Farmiga has an astonishing ability to transform herself completely. In the past few years, she’s played a worn-out drug addict, a cop shrink, a depressed young mom, and the carefully coiffed wife of a Nazi Commandant, to name a few. In Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air, she stars as a confident frequent flyer who happens to be George Clooney’s leading lady – and has more control over their on-the-run relationship than he does. Read the rest of this entry »

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AWFJ Women On Film - Tom Hooper On “The Damned United” - Jenny Halper interviews

Tom Hooper made his first short when he was thirteen. It was twenty five pounds worth of film stock spent chasing a runaway dog. The next year he found his social conscience - or so he says, half joking – tackling World War II (his grandfather was killed as a bomb navigator) and buskers, and by the time he was eighteen he was directing televised short films and winning awards. Read the rest of this entry »

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AWFJ Women On Film - Rupert Isaacson On “The Horse Boy” - Jenny Halper Interviews

When journalist Rupert Isaacson observed his autistic son’s unusual affinity for horses, he and his wife took five-year-old Rowan to the far reaches of Mongolia to seek the healing help of Shamans who work with horses and spiritually-based cures.   Read the rest of this entry »

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AWFJ Women On Film - Nia Vardalos on Movies and Motherhood - Jenny Halper

The huge box office success (US$ 356 million, if you’re counting) of My Big Fat Greek Wedding made Nia Vardalos one of the few women in Hollywood whose name can green light a movie. In two new movies releasing this summer–My Life In Ruins and I Hate Valentine’s Day, Vardalos emerges as a slimmed down version of the vivacious Greek-American gal with whom audiences have fallen in love. But she’s tired of discussing her weigh, and prefers to comment on her commitment to help women get ahead in moviemaking and the good cause she‘s adopted: adoption of children from foster care. Read the rest of this entry »

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Women On Film - Global Lens Filmmaker Teresa Prata - Jenny Halper interviews

Filmmaker Teresa Prata discovered Mia Couto’s “Sleepwalking Land” on a library shelf in Berlin. Prata, just beginning her film studies, was a newcomer to Germany and to cinema.

“You could say I didn’t find the book, the book found me,” says Prata, indicating that Couto’s novel about wartime friendship was an immediate, stay-up-all-night reminder of her own childhood in civil war-torn Mozambique. Read the rest of this entry »

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“Nothing But The Truth” - Rod Lurie Interview by Jenny Halper - Exclusive!

In Rod Lurie’s Nothing but the Truth, a female reporter who writes an article exposing a female CIA agent is thrown in jail for refusing to name her source. This might sound like a fictionalization of old news. It isn’t. At least, not according to Lurie. Read the rest of this entry »

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