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WAMC Roundtable: Joe Donahue and me on the Woodstock Film Festival
Last Friday, in anticipation of the Woodstock Film Festival and our eighth annual Amazing Women in Film Panel, I headed up to Albany and chatted with Roundtable host — and film-lover — Joe Donahue....
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Thelma Adams on Reel Women: my first filmcritic.com column
Straight shooter Savoca I launched my new column on AMC filmcritic.com with a post about why we need more women film directors, as if my readers had any doubt. But, then, it’s time to stop preaching...
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Thelma Adams on Reel Women: What Does Cannes Have Against Women?
Straight shooter SavocaNo one ever claimed that women had bridged the director’s-chair gender gap, but it’s a complete kick in the can that this year’s Cannes Film Festival has not a single...
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Julie Delpy spends ‘2 Days in New York’…
Delpy casts Rock as her live-in love (photo by Magnolia Pictures)People tend to remember Delpy as that French chick Celine opposite Ethan Hawke’s Jesse in “Before Sunset” and “Before Sunrise,” the...
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Countdown to TIFF – 9 Days – Movie Trailer “Love is All You Need”
I am a sucker for fiction where generational and family differences come to the fore over a few short days (blister and burst?). Think “Rachel Getting Married.” Or my novel “Playdate.” Danish director...
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Critic’s Pick: ‘The Bling Ring’
Must-See Movies Beyond the Blockbusters Love her or hate her, Sofia Coppola has cornered the market on the world of privilege and its discontents. And so it goes with the writer-director’s latest...
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Critic’s Pick: ‘Blackfish’
Serial Killer Whale This is the golden age of documentaries. Exhibit A: Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s eye-opening, edge-of-your-seat feature. “Blackfish” has it all: an oversized villain, chilling attack...
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Q&A: Never “Enough Said”: More Talk on Motherhood and Career with Julia...
In vino veritas This dialog with Julia Louis-Dreyfus is a continuation of an interview conducted at the Toronto Film Festival for Yahoo! Movies. Julia and I (and director Nicole Holofcener) are of the...
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Review: Keira Knightley Awakens Seattle in ‘Laggies’
Keira Knightley dresses down (and out). “Suck it up, go with your gut.” That’s the advice Seattle late twentysomething Megan (Keira Knightley) gives to adolescent Annika (Chloe Grace Moretz) at the end...
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Gamechanger Films Finds Success With Fund for Female-Helmed Features
Catch up with my feature via Variety‘s New York Power of Women issue: Gotham’s Gamechanger Films has already proved it has game. Launched in August 2013, the equity financing fund for female-helmed...
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