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AWFJ Women On Film - The Week In Women, November 20, 2009 - MaryAnn Johanson
The continued invisibility of women in Hollywood; a new part of our bodies we gals must learn to hate; Sex Slave: The Movie won’t be exploitive, the (male) director promises and INVISIBLE WOMEN. I’m amazed by my capacity to be continually surprised at how underrepresented or invisible ...
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AWFJ Women On Film - “Twilight Saga: New Moon” - Susan Granger reviews
This decidedly mediocre second installment in Stephanie Meyer’s best-selling series about a teenager’s infatuation with vampires and werewolves in the Pacific Northwest has already shattered box-office records, proving that ardent fans will not be deterred! As Bella Swan (Kirsten ...
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AWFJ Women On Film - Releasing November 18 and 20, 2009
AWFJ highlights films made by and about women: Wednesday, November 18 Red Cliff - Magnet Releasing, 148 mins., limited NY, opens wider November 25 - John Woo’s history epic features a great performances by actresses Wei Zhao as a heroic princess who refuses to let men do all the fighting ...
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AWFJ Women On Film - The Week In Women, November 13, 2009 - MaryAnn Johanson
awfj.org — Women do so go to the movies, though we maybe shouldn’t watch TV, and Megan Fox is sexy! FEMINISM MEANS GIRLS CAN BE DUMB, TOO . And that we have to acknowledge it. AWFJ member Anne Thompson is reporting at Thompson on Hollywood that New ... AWFJ Women On Film - The Week In Women, November 13, ...
AWFJ Women On Film - “2012″ - Betsy Pickle reviews
In “2012,” there’s got to be a morning after, if for no other reason than formulaic disaster epics have to have some measure of hope at the end. And make no mistake: “2012″ is a formulaic disaster epic — to the 10th power. As in, with its characters dodging ...
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AWFJ Women On Film - “2012″ - Susan Granger reviews
Does anyone remember how ominous it was when calendar turned from 1999 to 2000? Alarmists warned that Y2K might make all our computers fail, and I suspect that we’ll feel the same way - in retrospect - when December 21, 2012, comes and goes, despite so-called end of the Mayan calendar.  ...
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AWFJ Women On Film - Releasing November 13, 2009
AWFJ highlights films made by and about women: Friday, November 13 2012 - Sony Pictures, 158 mins. The Fantastic Mr. Fox - 20th Century Fox, 87mins., NY, LA; wide: Nov. 25 Oh My God - Rodger Pictures, 93 mins., limited William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe - Arthouse ...
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AWFJ Women On Film - The Week In Women, November 6, 2009 - MaryAnn Johanson
awfj.org — The Super Bowl for women will be hosted by men, what’s so mysterious about women, and more. TWO WHITE GUYS WALK INTO THE OSCARS… The debate was shortlived: Hugh Jackman had declined to host the Oscars again next March, so who would take over ... AWFJ Women On Film - The Week In Women, November 6, 2009 ...
AWFJ Women On Film - “Precious” - Susan Granger reviews
Ever since this grim, gritty, urban drama won kudos at the Sundance, Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals and the endorsement of Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry, it’s been generating industry hype and Oscar buzz, building on its themes of prejudice, incest, poverty and AIDS. Poor, ...
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AWFJ Women On Film - Carole Zabar’s Film Activism - Joanna Langfield interviews
Mention “Zabar’s” to any New Yorker and mouthwatering dreams of the legendary gourmet emporium immediately pop into mind. But not all members of the Zabar family are to be found behind the deli counter, slicing Nova Scotia salmon. For the past several years, Carole Zabar has been cooking up a ...
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AWFJ Women On Film - Releasing November 6, 2009
AWFJ highlights films made by and about women: Friday, November 6 Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire - Lionsgate, 110 mins., limited, expands November 13 and 20 - Based on the novel by Sapphire (Ramona Lofton), Lee Daniel’s highly anticipated feature is about an ...
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AWFJ Women On Film - The Week In Women, October 30, 2009 - MaryAnn Johanson
awfj.org — Yet more bullshit “explanations” for why there aren’t more movies about women… HOLLYWOOD HATES WOMEN, PART 10,853,184. Ann Hornaday in The Washington Post laments the disappearance of strong women from multiplex screens: In an era when ... AWFJ Women On Film - The Week In Women, October 30, 2009 ...
AWFJ Women On Film - November Films Preview - Jennifer Merin
Jumping the month’s movie release chronology, let’s get right to the long-awaited, much anticipated movie with that crazy name: “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire.” It arrives on select screens Nov. 6. Read more>>
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AWFJ Women On Film - Releasing October 27 and 30, 2009
AWFJ highlights films made by and about women Tuesday, October 27 Michael Jackson This Is It - Sony Pictures, 112 mins, limited Friday, October 30 Endgame - Monterey Media, 109 mins. limited - Paula Milne wrote this political thriller about the end of Apartheid in South Africa.  ...
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AWFJ Women On Film - The Week In Women, October 23, 2009 - MaryAnn Johanson
AWFJ Women On Film - The Week In Women, October 23, 2009 - MaryAnn Johanson
awfj.org — It’s hip to have no hips, gay vampires are totally ruining everything for straight guys, help out a gal filmmaker, and IT’S HIP TO HAVE NO HIPS . I’ve stayed away from the fracas over the Ralph Lauren Photoshop disaster, which reduced first one ... AWFJ Women On Film - The Week In Women, October 23, 2009 ...