The NY Times ran two very different stories about two very different young actresses - Megan Fox and Kristen Stewart - who both appear in huge franchises, Fox in Transformers and Stewart in Twilight.  Both women had cover pieces, Stewart in the Arts & Leisure section and Fox...

One of my longtime obsessions has been finding Australian films, especially those directed by women.  It began almost 20 years ago when I first saw My Brilliant Career and I was blown away.  Thinking back now, seeing that movie was another one of my seminal movie moments and that began...

I have not stopped thinking about Precious since I saw it almost a week ago.  This is a movie that unleashed many emotions, many that have been hard to articulate properly.  Here are some of the things I've been pondering (more on the film's content to come tomorrow).

Could...

Women & Hollywood: You said in the NY Times recently that a man can write great women's movies but you don't think a man could have written this story.  Can you elaborate?

Katherine Dieckmann: Think about a movie like You Can Count on Me.  I think that in...

There must be something in the water because over the last week there have been several substantive pieces and one panel (which I will blog about later) discussing women and film.  These discussions are not new, they happen all the time, but having two pieces come out in major newspapers...

Danish director Lone Scherfig is one of several women being mentioned this year for a potential best director nomination for her critically acclaimed film An Education.  Here's what I wrote earlier about the film.  She took some time to answer some questions on the road while doing publicity for...

So here we are on day three of Polanskigate on my blog.  Have to say that the amount of comments I've gotten on the site over the last couple of days has been incredible, however I wish as many people would comment on an interview with a woman director (like...

Sally Potter is a filmmaking icon.  She is an outspoken, visionary, feminist director who has been on the cutting edge of the indie world since she started making films.  That being said, Potter's work is an acquired taste, and her new film Rage she is again pushing all the boundaries...

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.  Setting aside her talent -- or lack thereof --  (she was so bad in the first Transformers but I don't blame...

It is absolutely unacceptable that we have a slave trade in the 21st century.  It is beyond belief - Emma Thompson

I saw Fatal Promises on Saturday and I have not stopped thinking about the topic.  It's not because Emma Thompson was there and was so passionate...

Casi Divas tells the story of four very different women vying in a contest to become the next big telenovela star.  It is a story infused with dreams of changing your life and desires for celebrity and success but if you think it is all gloss you will miss the...

When I first read that HBO was going to air a show called Hung my first reaction was huh? Why would I want to see a show about a guy's dick? But since I had once spoken on the phone with the show's co-creator Colette Burson and thought she...

It will come as no shock to anyone that women can be as sexist and misogynistic as men. That's a fact most of us have figured out. But it's so much more depressing when women get kicked in the teeth by other women on a great big movie screen.

I...

When I first heard about Gertrude Berg a couple of years ago when I was working on a documentary, after my initial shock dissipated, I got angry. How could it be that such a towering figure in radio and TV history could just... disappear?

Well, the good news is that...

Humpday written and directed by Lynn Shelton was one of those movies that came out of Sundance this year with a lot of buzz. The premise sounded funny but stupid: two old college friends, Ben and Andrew played by Mark Duplass and Joshua Leonard, -- straight guys -- decide...

Last week I attended the release of an economic study done by Princeton undergrad Emily Glassberg Sands entitled "Opening the Curtain of Playwright Gender: An Integrated Economic Analysis of Discrimination in American Theatre."

Usually an undergraduate thesis does not warrant a couple of hundred people showing up to hear the...

Hannah Free, the new film starring Sharon Gless, written by Claudia Allen (adapted from her play) and directed by Wendy Jo Carlton will premiere on Sunday, June 28 as the closing night film for the Frameline LGBT Film Festival in San Francisco.

The film tells the story of a...

When I was in LA for the Away We Go junket, I was able to interview Maya Rudolph about the film, SNL and a couple of other things:

Women & Hollywood: What was it about this script that spoke to you?

Maya Rudolph: I fell in love...

I knew nothing about Vendela Vida before I spoke with her a couple of weeks ago in conjunction with the release of her first film Away We Go which she co-wrote with husband Dave Eggers. (The film opens Friday and I liked it very much.) I very much enjoyed the...

It's hard to watch Megan Mylan's Oscar winning short film Smile Pinki without having emotions. At the beginning it was sadness, but by the end you can't stop smiling as much a Pinki the young Indian girl whose life is totally changed through the surgery to correct her cleft lip....