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What Are You Watching? – The Film Scene With Illeana Douglas!
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She is a member of the Women Film Critics Circle.
For two years, she hosted the podcast Fear(ful)less: Filmmaking From the Edge, a monthly window into the successes, failures, and conversations of an independent filmmaker, which is available on iTunes and GooglePlay.
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Christina Lane Jones Guests on The Film Scene w/ Illeana Douglas
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Christina Lane is Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Interactive Media at the University of Miami, where she also directs the Norton Herrick Center for Motion Picture Studies. She teaches courses on film history, women and media, and directors. Her scholarship focuses on silent cinema, classic Hollywood, and contemporary American independent film.
Dr. Lane is the author of the forthcoming book, Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock (Chicago Review Press). Phantom Lady is the first biography of one of the most influential women of Hollywood’s golden era, the woman who, working behind the scenes, shaped the screen style of Alfred Hitchcock, the master of suspense.
She is also the author of Feminist Hollywood: From Born in Flames to Point Break (Wayne State UP, 2000) and Magnolia (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). She has published essays in numerous scholarly journals as well as Culture, Trauma, and Conflict: Cultural Studies Perspectives on the War (Cambridge Scholars, 2007), Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema, (Routledge, 2011), Hitchcock and Adaptation: From Script to Screen (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), and Indie Reframed: Women and Contemporary American Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2017).
She is a member of the Women Film Critics Circle.
For two years, she hosted the podcast Fear(ful)less: Filmmaking From the Edge, a monthly window into the successes, failures, and conversations of an independent filmmaker, which is available on iTunes and GooglePlay.
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Naomi McDougal Jones Guests on The Film Scene w/ Illeana Douglas
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Naomi McDougall Jones is an award-winning actress, writer, producer, and women in film activist.
Naomi wrote, produced, and starred in the 2014 indie feature film, Imagine I’m Beautiful, which took home 12 awards on the film festival circuit including 4 Best Pictures and, for Naomi, 3 Best Actress Awards and The Don Award for Best Independently Produced Screenplay of 2014. The film was named as #8 of OscarWorld’s Top 10 Films of 2014 and was distributed theatrically and digitally by Candy Factory Films. The film is now available on Vimeo On Demand.
Naomi’s second feature film, Bite Me, is a subversive romantic comedy about a real-life vampire and the IRS agent who audits her. The film premiered at Cinequest, won Best Feature Film at VTXIFF, and then went on to the innovative, paradigm-shifting Joyful Vampire Tour of America in summer 2019, a 51-screening, 40-city, three-month, RV-fueled eventized tour that involved Joyful Vampire Balls, capes, a docu-series and a whole lot of joy. The film is now available to watch on Amazon, GooglePlay, and iTunes.
She is currently at work on her third feature screenplay, Hammond Castle, a magical realism film that explores themes of identity, legacy and gender through a modern-day seven-month pregnant woman’s unexpected interaction with the brilliant, eccentric and deceased inventor John Hays Hammond, Jr., for which Naomi received the honor of being the first artist-in-residence at Ernest Hemingway’s final home in Sun Valley, Idaho.
Naomi’s first book, The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood, was published by Beacon Press on February 4, 2020 and is now available wherever books are sold in hardcover, audiobook, and e-book.
Naomi has been a vocal advocate for bringing gender parity to film, both on and off screen. She has spoken at film festivals and conferences around the world and written extensively on this subject.
Naomi TEDTalk on these issues and what to do about them, “What it’s Like to be a Woman in Hollywood, has been viewed over a million times.
She has teamed up with former CFO of the City of Chicago, Lois Scott, to found The 51 Fund, a VC investment fund that will finance films written, directed, and produced by women.
A pilot Naomi wrote, The Dark Pieces, was named on the 2016 WriteHer List as one of the top 16 unproduced pilots by a female screenwriter and is now in development for TV in Canada.
She was a writer for season 1 of Amazon’s original series, The New Yorker Presents, based on the world’s most award-winning magazine, which premiered at Sundance 2016, for which she wrote the teleplay adaptation of Miranda July’s short story Roy Spivey.
For two years, she hosted the podcast Fear(ful)less: Filmmaking From the Edge, a monthly window into the successes, failures, and conversations of an independent filmmaker, which is available on iTunes and GooglePlay.
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Dee Wallace Guests on The Film Scene w/ Illeana Douglas
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Wallace began her career on television appearing in episodes of The Streets of San Francisco, Starsky and Hutch and Police Woman, before appearing in the box-office horror hit film The Hills Have Eyes (1977). In 1981, she played a leading role in the another horror film, The Howling opposite her husband Christopher Stone. They later starred together in Cujo (1983) based on Stephen King’s 1981 novel of the same name.
In 1982, Wallace went to star in Steven Spielberg’s science fiction film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and received Saturn Award nomination for her performance. Wallace also starred in a number of comedy movies, include 10 (1979), Jimmy the Kid (1982) and Secret Admirer (1985). In 1986, she starred in the horror comedy film Critters (and its sequel Critters Attack! in 2019). and later starred in many horror films, most notable Peter Jackson’s The Frighteners (1996).
On television, Wallace played a leading role in the CBS sitcom Together We Stand from 1986 to 1987) and the family drama The New Lassie (1989–1992). She guest starred in episodes of the number of shows, include The Twilight Zone, Hotel, Murder, She Wrote, Touched by an Angel, Bones, Grey’s Anatomy, My Name Is Earl, Criminal Minds, and The Office. In 2015, Wallace was cast on the ABC soap opera series General Hospital, as Patricia Spencer, and was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Guest Performer in a Drama Series.
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Anna Biller – The Film Scene w/ Illeana Douglas
Today we feature groundbreaking feminist writer/director Anna Biller. Biller is an independent American filmmaker who has directed two feature films. Biller consciously explores feminist themes throughout her work, including exploring the female gaze in cinema. She is vocal on both her website and in interviews about gender inequalities in the film industry. Her most recent feature, The Love Witch, is listed at number 41 on Rotten Tomatoes’ list of the Top 100 Horror Movies It also made Rolling Stone’s list of the top 10 Horror Movies of 2016, The New Yorker’s list of the Best Movies of 2016, and IndieWire’s list of The Best Movies of 2016.
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Dennis Christopher – The Film Scene w/ Illeana Douglas
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Tia Carrere – The Film Scene w/ Illeana Douglas
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John Carroll Lynch – The Film Scene w/ Illeana Douglas
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“Dolemite Is My Name” Writers Karazewski and Alexander – The Film Scene w/ Illeana Douglas
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Alonso Duralde’s Top 5 Christmas Films – The Film Scene w/ Illeana Douglas
#TheFilmScene #MovieLittleChristmas #AlonsoDuralde Today, we chat with noted film critic Alonso Duralde – the critic expert on Christmas films – and each of us are going to discuss our top 5 Christmas films! More on Alonso: he was the artistic director at the USA Film Festival/Dallas for five years. He was also the former arts and entertainment editor at the national gay and lesbian magazine The Advocate. In 2007, he became the film critic for MSNBC.com, and in 2009, his reviews began appearing regularly on The Rotten Tomatoes Show. Duralde is a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. His writing has appeared in The Village Voice, Movieline, and Detour. In July 2011, he became the senior film critic for The Wrap, which also syndicates his reviews to the Reuters wire. He also appeared on the TYT Network program What the Flick?!, and currently co-hosts the podcast and YouTube channel “Breakfast All Day”. In November 2005, Duralde’s first book, 101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men, was published. Duralde was also featured in writer Dennis Hensley’s book Screening Party, which gives the witty commentary of a group of Hensley’s friends as they watched movies together. Duralde’s second book, Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas, was published in October 2010 by Limelight Editions.
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