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Dec. 25th, 2009
Women directors
Dec. 25th, 2009 01:59 pmGood Year for Women in Movies?
Kathryn Bigelow received a Golden Globe nomination for The Hurt Locker and is being touted as the woman who could break the Best Director Oscar’s all-male streak. Other films this year told unconventional stories of women outside the usual mold of Hollywood superstars. But was this actually a good year for women in cinema? Prairie Miller, film reporter for WBAI, Lisa Collins, filmmaker and senior editor/segment producer at Hollywood.com, and Melissa Silverstein, blogger at Women & Hollywood, discussed the movies that everyone’s talking about–and whether they’re really as progressive as the rumors say.
