STACK #198 Apr 2021

FILM&TV FEATURE

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WOMEN WATCH TO The female voice is being heard loud and clear on the big and small screen, with quality roles for women and projects for female filmmakers now far more abundant – just as they should be.We’ve picked five fabulous females who have made their mark before and behind the camera.

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This gripping, Gone Girl - like thriller reinvents the revenge movie for the #MeToo generation. Nominated for five Oscars including Best Picture and Actress (the superb Carey Mulligan). [Available April 7]

OLIVIA COLMAN

Actress in a Limited Series or Movie, Regina also received the 2019 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in If Beale Street Could Talk , and made her directorial debut with the civil rights-era drama One Night in Miami , receiving a Golden Globe nomination this year for Best Director.

Olivia Colman is one of Britain's best, with a string of quality television series on her CV – including The Night

Manager , Broadchurch and Fleabag – and numerous Emmy and Golden Globe

READY OR NOT Marriage is a beautiful thing, but the in-laws can be hell, as Grace (Samara Weaving) discovers in this wonderfully wicked black-comedy thriller.

SOFIA COPPOLA Movies are part of the Coppola family DNA. Sofia Coppola followed the lead of famous father Francis Ford,

nominations. She also won the 2019 Oscar for Best Actress for her performance as Queen Anne

in The Favourite and went on to inherit the British throne from Claire Foy, playing the older Queen Elizabeth II in the third season of The Crown , for which she received the 2020 Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama.

WILD ROSE A young Scottish singer (Jessie Buckley) dreams of becoming a Nashville country star in this fresh and unpredictable music-

establishing herself as an acclaimed filmmaker with a distinctive voice. Having directed seven features to date, her signature style is best described as dreamlike, as seen in her assured debut feature, The Virgin Suicides (1999), and the more recent drama, The Beguiled (2017). While female protagonists feature prominently in her work, she is also drawn to the male perspective, as with Lost in Translation (2003) – a terrific vehicle for the great Bill Murray that put her on Hollywood’s radar with an Oscar for Original Screenplay and nominations for Best Picture and Director. JANE FONDA If the famous Fonda family is Hollywood royalty, then Jane Fonda is the queen. This veteran of stage, screen and TV won two Best Actress Oscars in the '70s – for Klute (1971) and Coming Home (1978) – and revolutionised the home workout in the '80s with her mega- selling fitness video. With a string of well-loved

ELISABETH MOSS Brilliant as Peggy Olsen in Mad Men , Elisabeth Moss took it to the next level with her portrayal

drama that explores the complexities of motherhood.

of the oppressed but resilient June in The

PHANTOM THREAD A London dressmaker’s strange relationship with his young model and muse results in a spellbinding Gothic melodrama in the tradition of Hitchcock’s Rebecca .

Handmaid’s Tale , winning a Golden Globe and Emmy. We

also loved her as the President’s daughter, Zoey Bartlet, in The West Wing ; as Detective Robin Griffith in crime series Top of the Lake and sequel, China Girl ; and as the traumatised lead of Leigh Whannell’s nail-biting reimagination of The Invisible Man . REGINA KING With an Oscar and four Emmy awards in the last five years, as well as numerous nominations, Regina King is on a roll. A familiar face from TV shows like 24 , The Leftovers ,

FREEMAN This acclaimed

documentary looks at the remarkable sporting career of national treasure Cathy Freeman, and why her win at the 2000 Sydney Olympics continues to resonate as one of Australia's proudest moments, 20 years on. [Available April 28]

movies like Barbarella (1968) and On Golden Pond (1981), Jane is as renowned for her political, feminist and environmental activism as her acting, and at 82, she's still getting arrested – most recently during a climate crisis rally in Washington, 2019.

American Crime and most recently HBO's Watchmen , for which she won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead

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