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Rashida Jones Makes Directorial Debut with Sara Bareilles 'Brave' Music Video
Rashida Jones announced her directorial debut with Sara Bareilles' "Brave" music video on Twitter earlier this week.. It's a bright, poppy song with an equally uplifting video to match.
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'Frances Ha' Breakout Mickey Sumner On Shooting Guerrilla Style for Noah Baumbach and Playing Patti Smith in Upcoming Film
Noah Baumbach's "Frances Ha" is full of big surprises. When it premiered at Telluride last September it seemed to materialize out of nowhere, having been shot in secret quite successfully the previous year. Another welcome surprise of the film is the unheralded arrival of young British actress Micke...
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Interview with Judy Chaikin - Director of The Girls in the Band
The Girls in the Band opens for a one-week run in NYC on May 10. Tickets here.
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Guest Post: Invisible Women Who Rock
We are both filmmakers launching documentaries featuring different generations of women pursuing their artistic vision in the predominantly male bastion of rock and roll. And of course, the challenges of telling these invisible stories in the predominantly male bastion of film are much the same -- w...
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Marin Alsop to be First Female Conductor for BBC's The Last Night of The Proms
Until now, for 118 years, BBC Proms has never been led by a female conductor. American born, premiere conductor Marin Alsop will be the first woman to do so.
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Hollywood Feminist of the Day: John Legend
John Legend is completely swoon-worthy. He's an extremely talented and good looking musician. Oh and he's an outspoken feminist.
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SXSW Interview with Sini Anderson, Tamra Davis and Kathleen Hanna of The Punk Singer
I can't write about Sini Anderson's great documentary The Punk Singer without mentioning that Kathleen Hanna has been one of my life-long heroes. When I was sixteen a friend gave me my first Bikini Kill CD, I had never heard anything like it, and feminism wasn't something that was remotely on m...
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Pussy Riot Band Members Speak Out on 60 Minutes
60 Minutes did a segment on Pussy Riot, the now infamous feminist punk band from Russia who were sent to prison for their demonstration against Vladimir Putin. Two of the members are still serving time in labor camps and other members who were never identified have gone into hiding.
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Watch This: Nina Simone Singing "To Be Free"
Legacy Records, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, is celebrating Nina Simone as their February 2013 Artist of the Month in honor of Black History Month and Simone's 80th birthday. And a biopic starring Zoe Saldana as Simone is now being edited.
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Listen to Rufus Wainwright's Oscar Eligible Song for 'Any Day Now,' Exclusive to Indiewire
The recently announced list of the 75 original songs eligible for an Oscar nomination for the 85th edition of the awards show reads more like a Grammy scorecard with artists like Arcade Fire, Fiona Apple, Florence and the Machine, Dolly Parton, Rick Ross, Paul Williams, Owl City, John Legend, Katy P...
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