THE KEEPING ROOM, A BRAVE HEART, MISUNDERSTOOD, THE INTERN and Other Sept 25 Openers – Reviews by Jennifer Merin

In The Keeping Room, a gripping post-Civil War drama, Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Muna Otaru brilliantly portray women who

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AWFJ Movie of the Week, September 21-27: THE KEEPING ROOM

Opening September 2, the AWFJ Movie of the Week is The Keeping Room, director Daniel Barber’s powerful Civil War drama which sees three women fighting to defend their isolated home from a pair of desperate rogue soldiers.. Read on…

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AWFJ Women On Film – 2010 EDA Awards Winners

Black Swan, The Kids Are All Right, The Social Network and Winter’s Bone score multiple 2010 EDA Awards, and there

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AWFJ Women On Film – “True Grit” – Review by Susan Granger

When Joel and Ethan Coen (“No County For Old Men’) decided to remake this iconic Western, they turned to the source: Charles Portis’s 1968 novel. Yet comparing Jeff Bridges’ irascible Rooster Cogburn with John Wayne’s is inevitable, since Wayne placed an indelible imprint on the role, winning his only Oscar in 1969 and reprising it in the 1975 sequel. That’s perhaps why the Coens focus on the character of Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld), a fearlessly determined 14 year-old Arkansas girl who hires Federal Marshall Cogburn to track down Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), the hired hand who killed her father.

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