‘Blackfish’ director Gabriela Cowperthwaite talks about her film ‘The Grab’—and why she wants viewers to pay attention to the governments and private entities seizing shrinking natural resources across the globe.
Highlights from the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival.
On three docs from TIFF, including the unsettling latest from the director of Blackfish.
2017 seems to have introduced an era of heightened awareness about female filmmakers and the importance of presenting female-oriented stories on big screens.
Matt writes: We are certain that Roger Ebert would've been thrilled by director Patty Jenkins' recent record-shattering triumph. Her superhero blockbuster, "Wonder Woman," had the highest-grossing opening weekend for a film directed by a woman, and has earned widespread acclaim from both audiences and critics (including our own). It is only Jenkins' second feature, arriving 14 years after her astonishing debut, "Monster," which was hailed by Ebert as the best film of 2003, containing a performance by Charlize Theron that was dubbed by the critic as one of the greatest in cinema history (Theron went on to win the Best Actress Oscar).
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