Sexism Watch: Sigourney Weaver Can’t Be An Action Star But Harrison Ford Can > Women and Hollywood

Do you have a secret action heroine in you?

That's Melissa's question after Sigourney Weaver's words and the main post ( Read more... )

Sally Field to Take on Mary Todd Lincoln in Spielberg Biopic > Women and Hollywood

When is the last time we saw a woman lead older than her male counterpart? This is great news aside from the fact it will be great to see Field on the big screen again in a substantive role.

You know I haven't ever seen Norma Rae ( Read more... )

Catherine Hardwicke No Longer Directing If I Stay

and...

Pixar Fires First Female Director

2 women in a row, from a profession where women are very sparse and where women in high profile movies are even thinner on the ground.

In What Year Will Female Directors Make Up Half the Workforce? - Film.com

Think of it in terms of exciting news items. If 50 percent of directors were female, the alleged shortlist for new Superman directors (a six name list that contains the likes of Darren Aronofsky, Tony Scott, and Zack Snyder) would have two or three women among them. Can ( Read more... )

Cairo Time

This sounds very good.

and this...
I am speaking of Rachel Weisz in Alejandro Amenábar’s riveting Agora which is set in ancient Alexandria. As the wise and sophisticated philosopher Hypatia, Weisz portrays a woman who prefers to teach and discover the mysteries of the sky than to marry and raise children. And this sole conceit of ( Read more... )

Leave Ellen Page Alone!
Some spoilery bits behind the cut and in the article above, too..
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The word of God has a well known liberal bias

…But "labor" is now a bad word, when it accurately describes what Jesus did as a carpenter? And what substitute do they have for "fellow worker"? "Dissociated, independent individual who happens to participate in the free market near me and contemporaneously" is all I could come up with for a ( Read more... )

Some notable invitees (they are nominated by branch)

Actors
Vera Farmiga
Anna Kendrick
Mo’Nique
Carey Mulligan
LaTanya Richardson Jackson
Saoirse Ronan
Zoe Saldana
Gabourey Sidibe

The Academy Hands Out Some InvitesDiverse group and I do not recognize a few...however ( Read more... )

Helen Mirren with an Assault rifleThis stars a cast all over 40 ( Read more... )

You cannes not be serious! | filmdirecting4women

There is no female directed film in competition at Cannes.

There is a campaign to change that, to make sure it doesn't happen again, and a petition.

Not one woman, from New Guinea to Japan to Brazil, and beyond, and around, worthy of being in competition at Cannes.

I cannes not believe it!