The Palme d’Or is the highest prize awarded to the film director of the Best Feature Film at the Cannes Film Festival held in France. Two women directors have received the Palme d’Or over the film festival’s history – Jane Campion (1993) and Julia Ducoumau (2021).

In this month’s newsletter, we honor the legacies of three women featured in Hollywood: Her Story, An Illustrated History of Women and the Movies who have died recently.

Divorce is a fact of life in America for many families. Thus movies often address this topic through focusing on the impacts on the characters featured.

In honor of co-author Barbara Bridges becoming a grandparent, in this month’s newsletter, we feature some movies in which grandparents play a significant role.

The 96th Academy Awards ceremony was held on Sunday, March 10, 2024. Thirteen women took home Oscars in eleven out of a possible nineteen categories.

The Academy Award nominations have been announced! The entertainment community and film fans around the world will turn their attention to the 96th Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, March 10, to learn who will receive the highest honors in filmmaking.

The 25 films selected for the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress in 2023 based on their cultural, historic, and/or aesthetic importance contain some classics including Home Alone and Apollo 13. The 25 also include films in which women profiled in Hollywood: Her Story, An Illustrated History of Women and the Movies played a key part. Let’s learn … Read More

The 2023 Kennedy Center Honors were bestowed earlier this month, recognizing artists who have made profound contributions to the cultural life of our nation over a lifetime of artistic achievements. In 2021, Bette Midler was one of the honorees. Queen Latifah was one of the recipients in this, the 46th year. Let’s learn more about both of these amazing women.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy changed the face of tourism in New Zealand. Today, sixty percent of the tourists that come to this beautiful country have been inspired to visit New Zealand from knowing about and wanting to see the country where the movies were filmed. A thriving movie industry exists. The focus of this newsletter is on movies … Read More

One of the earliest movies ever made was titled The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. It was eighteen seconds long; produced in 1895 by the Edison Company, which was based in West Orange, New Jersey (the early hub of movie making in the U.S.); and Mary was played by a man. Since then, many movies have been made with … Read More