THE LOST DAUGHTER is truly one of the very best films of the year. So struck by the palpable, raw emotion of the complex women of this story. Entirely in awe of Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Happy birthday to the fearless screen goddess Marlene Dietrich, whose mesmerizing presence and ferocious talent made her one of the greatest and most original movie stars of all time. 💘💘💘
Laura Dern remembers her "Big Little Lies" and "Wild" director Jean-Marc Vallée: "The world has lost one of our great and purest artists and dreamers. And we lost our beloved friend. Our hearts are broken" https://t.co/yuqtEemlon
“Whenever people try to do [strong female characters] in contemporary cinema, it always feels like such a shallow and facile understanding, but ‘The Lord of the Rings’ really knocked it out of the park.”
#RepresentationMatters#womeninfilm#OBP
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“I am a director. I'm the one who can order men around.”
Rest in Peace, Lina Wertmüller (1928—2021). ✨
In 1977, the groundbreaking Italian filmmaker became the first female director ever to be nominated for an Oscar.
“I get questions about what it's like to be a woman filmmaker, and you don't get that question a lot if you're a man. I don't really go there because I can't really define what I bring to films as a woman.”—Lynne Ramsay
Happy Birthday to the Scottish queen 👑
Rita Moreno became the first, and still only, Latina to ever win an acting Oscar for the 1961 #WestSideStory and she could be welcomed back into the fold, now as the newly created character Valentina, with the remake. https://t.co/vyJh4edNj5
#CODA writer and director Sian Heder on increasing representation for the deaf community in Hollywood: "The deaf experience is not a monolith. One movie cannot fix it all in terms of representation." https://t.co/0azAFfpffy