After 30 years in front of the camera, actress Julia Stiles has taken on a new position in cinema: director. “It was a revelation,” Stiles said at the 2025 Women+Film Festival in May. “The messaging when you’re an actress, predominantly, … Continue reading Women+Film: Julia Stiles on WISH YOU WERE HERE
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, out now in theaters, and the 16th Women+Film Festival, which will play the Sie FilmCenter May 30-June 1. Continue reading After Image for the weekend of May 23, 2025
Some topics never go out of fashion. We really wish they would, but we never seem to be that lucky. On June 1, the Women+Film Festival will host a community conversation: The Makings of a Moral Panic (10 a.m.), exploring … Continue reading Wish You Were Here: Previewing the 2025 Women+Film Festival
In case you somehow haven’t heard, the Sundance Film Festival might be coming to Boulder in 2027. “The Sundance Film Festival has a deep history in the Mountain West, and we can think of no better home for its next … Continue reading Coming Attraction? Unpacking Boulder’s bid for the Sundance Film Festival
There are some months when life in Colorado is an embarrassment of riches. April is one such month. And those craving moving images and good conversation will have two exceptional choices this weekend. Let’s start in Boulder with the Ebert … Continue reading Local Buzz: 2023 Ebert Interruprtus & Women+Film Festival
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about The Courier (available now On Demand), Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir (playing Denver Film’s Women+Film Festival), and The Furies, out on Blu-ray and DVD from … Continue reading
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Hemingway, the latest PBS documentary from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, and pick out a few highlight for this year’s Women+Film Festival, screening virtually … Continue reading
If there’s a specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can’t change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. —Kathryn Bigelow Kathryn Bigelow was the fourth … Continue reading Barbara Bridges and Jill S. Tietjen on HOLLYWOOD: HER STORY
According to the website womenandhollywood.com, founded in 2007 by Melissa Silverstein, less than half (34 percent) of all 2017 speaking roles went to female actors. Those numbers get worse once race is factored in—68 percent of those roles went to … Continue reading Previewing the 2018 Women+Film Festival
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