Certainty Films

I really wanted to see The September Issue, not because I read Vogue which I haven’t in years, but because I find Anna Wintour fascinating. As a New Yorker I see her face eveywhere yet until this year I don’t think I actually heard her voice. I ...

I can’t believe it but this weekend marked the 2nd birthday of Women & Hollywood. As we enter our third year I want to thank all of you for your support and for continuing to read the site day after day. Thanks for keeping me inspired.

It’s not enough to have clear statistics about how women are discriminated in theatre, but now a new award — The Steinberg Playwright Awards — given to “emerging” playwrights has decided that there is no woman good enough to qualify as emerging. Bollocks. This is ...

You know that Lifetime movies of late have gotten quite “lite.” But this week we get a woman of substance, Georgia O’Keefe, played by a woman of substance, Joan Allen. The movie mostly covers her life with Alfred Stieglitz (Jeremy Irons) who supported her work before any one else did. He a...

The NY Times did a look at the upcoming theatre season across the country (but honestly, most are in NY.) Here are plays (and musicals) written by women, about women and directed by women...

Jennifer’s Body written by Diablo Cody and directed by Karyn Kusama is exactly what I expected. It’s a campy, women centric look at the atrocities of being a teenage girl. For some of us who have been there, the first line of the film “Hell is a teenage girl” seems just right. Megan ...

Megan Fox seems to have stirred about a big pile of poo by talking to a magazine about Michael Bay and his dictatorial tactics on the set of Transformers...

Most directors are lucky to make one movie in their lives that moves people beyond words but in my book Jane Campion has made three — An Angel at My Table, The Piano and now Bright Star. When I first saw An Angel at My Table I remember loving it but not completely getting it. ...

Monika Bartyzel from Cinematical is on the ground in Toronto. In her latest Girls on Film column she talks about hope for the future. I so agree with what Monika had to say that I had to share...

Sapphire I met Michele Landsberg last March at WAM in Cambridge and we have been corresponding (mostly tweeting) since then...

It is absolutely unacceptable that we have a slave trade in the 21st century. It is beyond belief – Emma Thompson I saw this Fatal Promises on Saturday and I have not stopped thinking about the topic. ...

If you are in the SF area… The MadCat Women’s International Film Festival is the longest running experimental women’s film festival in the United States. Know...

Martha Lauzen and her team at the Center for Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State U. have updated the statistics on women creatives working behind the scenes during the 2008- 2009 TV season...

The Toronto Film Festival kicked off this week and there are some very special and excellent films about young women that are getting a lot of notice. It seems that young women coming of age has emerged as one of the themes of the festival...