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CALL JANE — Phyllis Nagy Interview

December 30, 2022 By Leave a Comment

CALL JANE — Phyllis Nagy Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Breaking the law to do the right thing is a dilemma rife with dramatic possibilities, and that is the story of CALL JANE, a fictionalized story about real events. The Janes, as they were called, started as a collective that arranged safe abortions for women when the procedure… Read More »

Tagged With: abortion, based on a true story, Chicago, filming during COVID, hairstyle, Jane, tracking shot

BOYS STATE

August 12, 2020 By Leave a Comment

BOYS STATE

As some of us still ponder the results of the presidential election of 2016, and view the approach of the 2020 election with trepidation, there is no more timely nor illuminating film than Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss’ cinema verité documentary, BOY’S STATE.

Tagged With: abortion, Boy's State, education, elections, gun control, high school, politics, Texas

TRAPPED — Dawn Porter Interview

March 18, 2016 By Leave a Comment

TRAPPED  —  Dawn Porter Interview

Dawn Porter is a woman who keeps up with current events, but when she was on location in Mississippi for a documentary, she was shocked and disturbed to learn from the local paper that there was only one independent abortion provider in the entire state.  Her reaction eventually became TRAPPED, a trenchant examination of how… Read More »

Tagged With: abortion, abortion providers, Alabama Supreme Court, Americans United For Life, anti-choice legislation, Antonin Scalia, Center for Reproductive Rights, contraception, domestic terrorism, IUD, IVF, Judge Roy Moore, Operation Rescue, Operation Save America, reproductive rights, shaming women, Supreme Court, Susan B. Anthony List, undue burden provision

Lily Tomlin and Paul Weitz and GRANDMA

August 28, 2015 By 1 Comment

Lily Tomlin and Paul Weitz and GRANDMA

In which Paul Weitz and Lily Tomlin talk the continuum of comedy, reading too much into a name, and paying one’s own way. And a good time is had by all.

Tagged With: abortion, actor, director, Jane Waggoner, Juke and Opal, Lily Tomlin, network censors, Paul Weitz, RIchard Pryor, screenwriter

Listen to GRANDMA

August 28, 2015 By 1 Comment

Listen to GRANDMA

After her granddaughter, Sage (Julia Garner), has confided to her that she needs an abortion, Elle (Lily Tomlin) cuts right to the heart of the issue.  Not the politics, mind you. Nor the question of how a modern teenager like Sage, someone with plenty of birth-control options, found herself in this position. Elle says the… Read More »

Tagged With: abortion, Betty Friedan, credit cards, GRANDMA, grief, Lily Tomlin, mother-daughter relationship, narrative, Oscar contender, Paul Weitz, women's movement

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