Women Film Critics Circle's Jan Lisa Huttner Wins Top Honor

Feminist Film Critic Wins Top State Honor Plus National Recognition
 
Chicago film critic Jan Lisa Huttner recently earned her third Silver Feather Award for writing the most award-winning articles in the Illinois Woman's Press Association's annual Mate E. Palmer Communications Contest. Huttner made international news in 2009 when she questioned why Loveleen Tandan (the credited co-director of Slumdog Millionaire) became an “invisible woman” just as Slumdog began generating serious Oscar buzz, thereby setting the stage for March 7, 2010, when Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman in history to win an Oscar in the Best Director category. Huttner’s passionate posts about the “Slumdog Brouhaha” on her blog, The Hot Pink Pen, won first place in IWPA’s Website Development/Creation category, then placed third in national competition when IWPA passed it up to its parent organization, the National Federation of Press Women....

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Who's Afraid Of Orlando?

Screening Room: Who's Afraid Of Orlando? Can an enduring Virginia Woolf screen classic hold its own amid the clutter of summer blockbusters and instant short shelf life of Hollywood movie culture? A conversation with Orlando writer/director Sally Potter and star Tilda Swinton about the re-release nearly two decades later of the page to screen adaptation of a woman journeying through the centuries. Or is it a man...

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Emerging Female Directors From The Middle East

By Rose Capp

Predominantly low-budget, sometimes stylistically rudimentary, these films constituted a compelling, collective call to arms reminiscent of the forceful feminist polemic of Western female filmmakers in the 1970s and 80s....

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Rose Capp is a member of The Women Film Critics Circle. She is a critic at The Melbourne Times, RealTime Arts, Senses Of Cinema, Metro Magazine, on-air at ABC Radio 774, The Film Show and Film Buffs Forecast, and she has lectured in film studies at Monash University, RMIT and The Australian National University in Canberra.

I Am Love: Sex, Class And Seafood

HE SAID....

I am Love is a story of the wealthy Recci family in Milan, Italy. The film follows their lives during and after the year 2000. The movie takes on a dual approach to its plot with a sensual love affair between bourgeois characters and a Freudian love affair of food that links these same characters...

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Gerald Wright
HDFEST.com
Film Showcase

SHE SAID

...It is the aftermath of discovery and an ensuing tragedy that stuns; “frenzied” doesn’t begin to describe the take-the-clothes-and-run climax. “You don’t exist,” Tancredi informs his wife, and it’s true: Emma is dead. Thankfully, even in the pre-feminist realm of the Italian bourgeoisie, this neo-Bovary has a shot at an extra life.

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Michelle Orange
Movieline

The Politics Of The Female Pleasure Principle In Movies

Helen Mirren Soaks Up The Attention

HE SAID....

Love Ranch: I think it's great that this "young senior dame" can still get away with the hot and heavy sex scenes that the younger women tend to dominate on screen...

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Gerald Wright
National Association of Black Journalists
HDfest.com
Film Showcase

SHE SAID....

Sex, Senate Stings And Suicide: Call Girl Jeanette Maier exposes with raw commentary the sexual and class differences of johns, the erotic dark side of prominent politicians, and gender bias in prostitution laws in The Canal Street Madam....

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Prairie Miller