THE WEEK IN WOMEN: 2017 Oscars set records but women are still underrepresented — Brandy McDonnell reports
This year’s Oscar nods are good news and bad news. Let’s get the bad news out of the way, especially
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JACKIE — Review by Martha P. Nochimson
Pablo Larrain’s new film, Jackie, starring Natalie Portman in the title role, recounts the way Jacqueline Kennedy dealt with the
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AWFJ Movie of The Week December 2: JACKIE
Mythmaking has long been a staple of American movies. Pablo Larraín’s film portrait Jackie tackles one of the greatest of American myths — that of first lady Jacqueline Kennedy. In the week following her husband’s assassination, Mrs. Kennedy granted an interview to Life Magazine. The film uses this as a framing device, and as an almost surgical means to dissect the psyche of its titular character. Opening Dec. 2, AWFJ’s Movie of the Week is Jackie. Read on…
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