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#SummerHours: Throwback Thursday: Women in Sports

Horseracing, baseball, basketball, soccer - "there's no crying" in the women in sports edition of NYWIFT's #SummerHours, bringing you the best of female athletes on film.

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#SummerHours Throwback Thursday (#Pride Edition): The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love

NYWIFT #SummerHours offers its first Throwback Thursday - #Pride Edition! - with this sweet '90s teen rom-com.

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Road to Muse: #ThrowbackThursday Videos

We hope you have your 2014 Muse Awards ticket in hand! If not, buy one now. You don’t want to miss the sure to be jaw-dropping, laughter-inducing Wanda Sykes’ acceptance speech, the industry insights from the stunning and talented Maggie Gyllenhaal, the thought-provoking, global-minded Abigail Disney’s Changemaker Award acceptance speech, or further wise words from industry...

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#TBT Flix Not to Miss: ‘The Gleaners & I’ (2000) by Agnes Varda

The Gleaners, an oil painting by Jean-François Millet. In her documentary The Gleaners & I (2000), Agnes Varda’s point-of-departure is a 1857 painting by Jean-Francois Millet portraying three women gleaning the fields. The painting, hanging in the Musee d’Orsay in Paris, is captured in the film through crowds of onlookers. While in his painting Millet sought to give a voice to...

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#TBT Flix Not to Miss: ‘Vagabond’

When I first saw Vagabond (1985) by French New Wave filmmaker Agnès Varda, it was a revelation. Varda’s story begins with finding a woman’s frozen body lying in a ditch, and the movie pieces together the last weeks of the young woman’s life through interviews with people who met her on her travels.  Sandrine Bonnaire gives...

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#ThrowbackThursday: Zip Your Creative Career Forward

Joanne Zippel teaching a workshop in the NYWIFT Board Room. Photo courtesy of Joanne Zippel. Joanne Zippel, a creative life coach and NYWIFT member, has an upcoming in-depth eight-part career support workshop beginning October 14 and running every other Tuesday through January 20.   This is the fifth time Zippel is running the workshop. In spring 2012, NYWIFT...

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#TBT Flix Not to Miss: ‘Gas Food Lodging’

Gas Food Lodging (1992) by Allison Anders is one of those films that has stayed with me over the years. It resonated at the time I saw it as well as years later when I decided to revisit it. Anders has directed a few gems, but this is my favorite. It’s gritty without being mean, hopeful...

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Flix Not to Miss: ‘Mansfield Park’

Particia Rozema is a wonderfully subtle director who’s made some terrific films. I recently re-watched one of my favorites, Mansfield Park. It’s a wonderful adaptation of the Jane Austen novel, with a slightly modern treatment of some of the more shocking events. Frances O’Connor is a delightfully sly Fanny Brice, and Jonny Lee Miller is smoldering...

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Flix Not to Miss: ‘Top of the Lake’

Oscar winner Jane Campion is one of the most talented contemporary, female directors who sadly hasn’t come out with a new film in awhile. That she decided to make a detective miniseries is fascinating. But don’t expect the typical crime procedural. Top of the Lake is an interesting, moody character study of  life in the outback, anchored...

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