2015 Gave Actresses Vehicles for Greatness – Jennifer Merin comments
While renowned actresses continue to demand equal pay for their work and to lobby for better representation of women on
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THE WEEK IN WOMEN: Are 2015’s Gender Gains Sustainable? Plus Blanchett, Streisand and Hollywood’s Most Powerful Women — Brandy McDonnell Reports
As 2015 comes to a close, the question becomes are women’s box office successes just milestones in a particularly good
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THE WEEK IN WOMEN: Respect for Maureen O’Hara, Sandra Bullock, Sarah Gavron, Daniel Craig and more – Brandy McDonnell reports
RIP Maureen O’Hara. Sandra Bullock seconds Hollywood’s spanking for sexism and ageism. Suffragette director Sarah Gavron talks role models. Kate Winslett to star in Lee Miller biopic. Sylvia Robinson, known as the “Mother of Hip-Hop,” will be the subject of a biopic. And Daniel Craig bonds with Monica Bellucci, his equal in age. Read more in THE WEEK IN WOMEN.
Read moreSUFFRAGETTE, I SMILE BACK, DIFRET, INDIA’S DAUGHTER and Other Oct 23 Openers – Reviews by Jennifer Merin
Suffragette stars Carey Mulligan as one of the brave women who changed herstory by winning the vote for women in
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AWFJ Movie of the Week, October 20-26, 2015: SUFFRAGETTE
British director Sarah Gavron’s phenomenal portrait of the brave women at the vanguard of the rights to vote campaign in the early 20th century in Britain. Specifically, Gavron and master screenwriter Abi Morgan (Shame, The Iron Lady) have chosen to set their film in the seminal year of 1912 when, disheartened by the lack of progress, movement leader Emmeline Pankhurst (a commanding cameo by Meryl Streep) decreed that words should become action. And so it was that peaceful protest and political machinations turned into guerilla warfare, bands of women creating civil unrest to draw attention to their cause; and, often, ending up behind bars, isolated from their families, subject to the most heinous public shame and physically tortured.
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Viewed from the 21st century, it’s difficult to imagine a time when women – 50% of the population – were
Read moreSUFFRAGETTE Producers Alison Owen and Faye Ward on Feminism and Working Together – Jennifer Merin interviews
It took Alison Owen and Faye Ward years of brainstorming and campaigning to produce Suffragette, the feature about women’s struggles
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There have been more movies about dogs in the military than there have been about women fighting for their right
Read moreTHE WEEK IN WOMEN: Switching genders in OUR BRAND IS CRISIS, ROADHOUSE and more – Brandy McDonnell comments
When filmmakers start casting women in roles originally written for men, it gives real hope that Hollywood might just be
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