Nothing we didn’t already know intuitively, but a new study from the University of Southern California runs the numbers on gender inequality in film. The study reaches an obvious conclusion: with men holding so much control of writing, directing and producing, it’s no wonder actresses are so often relegated to less important roles. This study examined the...
Monthly Archives: April 2011
With Kathleen Turner, Jason Ritter, Emily Deschanel (and Richard Chamberlain as Monsignor Murphy). I’ll go way out on a limb here and say the title is meant to be ironic. Official synopsis says “A devoutly Catholic wife and mother has been nominated for one of the church’s top awards. She then goes about trying to prove she has the perfect family, refusing...
Great news for those of us who can’t attend the Tribeca Film Festival. The festivals “Streaming Room” will offer selected screenings online and via video-on-demand. Slated this year are 6 features and 18 short films — half premiere events, and half representing highlights from past festivals. Each selection will be available during three to five...
One of the big surprises out of Toronto was another Weinstein Co. film and another UK Film Foundation production, Submarine. Looks pretty great. Peter Bradshaw wrote: It’s a dark coming-of-age comedy about a lovelorn teenage boy in 1980s Swansea, written and directed by Ayoade, adapted from a novel by Joe Dunthorne, and executive produced by Ben Stiller, who appears...
What happens when you send a request out to the world to chronicle, via video, a single day on Earth? You get 80,000 submissions and 4,500 hours of footage from 192 countries. Producer Ridley Scott and Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald took this raw material — all shot on July 24, 2010 — and created Life in a Day, a groundbreaking, feature-length documentary...
To watch DisneyNature’s African Cats is to celebrate the roar of the female cat who not only is responsible for raising all cats, male and female, but also must protect her young and hunt for food. They rule. This documentary wisely focuses on two mother cats – a seductive, cunning cheetah named Sita and a devoted, strong lion named Layla and the daily struggles...
