As film directors, women have tended to participate more actively outside mainstream cinema–not always by choice. Since the 1930s, there has been a periodic call for a women’s counter-cinema that would rewrite the patriarchal properties of Hollywood’s language. Whether overtly feminist or not, women directors have shown the need to rupture Hollywood’s typically closed, homogeneous […]
Weill, Claudia: Director Profile (Girlfriends) (Women in Film, Women/Film)
February 10, 2006 by
Claudia Weill's Girlfriends, a sympathetic look at a young, unattractive woman who tries to make it as a photographer in New York. The screenplay was written by Vicki Polon, based on Katherine Mansfield's story “Bliss.” Prior to her feature debut, Weill produced a number of documentaries, including the acclaimed Joyce at 34, and directed the Oscar-nominated documentary, The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir (1975), a chronicle of the first women's delegation to China led by Shirley MacLaine.
Oscar Actors: Ford, Harrison–Raiders of the Lost Ark
February 9, 2006 by
Over the course of his career, HARRISON FORD has become one of the most popularly acclaimed actors of our time. His body of work includes 38 feature films, eleven of which have exceeded $100 million each at the box office. Through his starring roles in such cinematic blockbusters as the Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies, The Fugitive, Air Force One and Patriot Games, he has come to embody the quintessential American hero for moviegoers around the world.
Oscar Directors: Preminger, Otto–Profile, Life of Controversies
February 7, 2006 by
Laura and Anatomy of a Murder are just two of Preminger's film jewels. Arguably, he made at least three other masterpieces of ambiguity and objectivity: Bonjour Tristesse (1958), Advise and Consent (1962), and Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965).
Oscar Actors: Moore, Julianne–Best Actress, Still Alice?
February 5, 2006 by
In her latest film, Freedomland, Julianne Moore plays Brenda Martin, a young woman who arrives at a hospital in Dempsy, New Jersey, and tells a terrible story being carjacked, with her young son also stolen away in the car. Moore is only the ninth person in the Academy’s history to receive two Oscar nominations in the same year. In 2002, she was nominated for Best Actress for Far From Heaven and Best Supporting Actress for The Hours. Far From Heaven was directed by Todd Haynes and co-starred Dennis Quaid and Dennis Haysbert.
