Oscars 2017: The Academy Makes History — Chaz Ebert comments (Exclusive)
The Oscars continue to be on my “must see” list and this year’s 89th edition was not only immensely enjoyable,
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Oscars 2017: We Have a New Hollywood Hero — Jeanne Wolf comments (Exclusive)
While the people in the audience were gasping with surprise, Jordan Horowitz — as if to assure them this wasn’t
Read moreOscars 2017: Victories for ‘Moonlight,’ ‘La La Land’ and Viola Davis — Brandy McDonnell reports (Exclusive)
In a twist ending that only Hollywood could dream up, “Moonlight” won best picture Sunday night after a mixed-up finish
Read moreTHE WEEK IN WOMEN: ‘La La Land’ keeps dancing, ‘Moonlight’ still shining, ‘Kubo’ makes history — Brandy McDonnell reports
Last weekend’s Golden Globes established La La Land as a clear front-runner — closely followed by Moonlight — in upcoming
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AWFJ EDA Awards for Best of 2016
The women of AWFJ have voted! The Alliance of Women Film Journalists is pleased to announce the winners of the tenth annual AWFJ EDA Awards. This year, AWFJ presents EDA Awards in 25 categories, divided into three sections: the standard ‘Best Of’ section, the Female Focus awards and the irreverent EDA Special Mention awards—including Actress Most in Need of a New Agent and the AWFJ Hall of Shame Award. Read on…
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With sincerest appreciation for all the great work that’s been done in film DURING 2015, the Alliance of Women Film
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MOONLIGHT – Review by MaryAnn Johanson
I’ve been trying to think about the best way I could advocate for writer-director Barry Jenkins’s luminous and plaintive Moonlight:
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AWFJ Movie of the Week, October 17 – October 21: Moonlight
The eight-year gap between Barry Jenkin’s first film Medicine for Melancholy and his sophomore follow-up Moonlight has been a source of some considerable anxiety for all the cinephiles eagerly awaiting Jenkins’s new work. Opening Oct. 21, AWFJ’s Movie of the Week is Moonlight, a political work in that it posits the experience of being black in the US, not with the triumphant exceptionalism of a film like The Birth of a Nation, but with attention and care to a common and shared humanity. Read More…
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