NYWIFT Blog

Weekly Roundup: Gia Coppola, ‘Murphy Brown’ & a Media Internship

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Flix Not To Miss: An Action Trio of Kathryn Bigelow

Last week Entertainment Weekly published a list of the 100 All Time Greatest Movies. It is interesting to note that out of the 100 films, sadly only three were directed by women– Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker (#74), Jane Campion’s The Piano (#92), and the Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstal’s Olympia (#84). None of these film made...

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