How Filmmakers of ‘The Janes’ Documentary Confront Today’s Abortion Debate Through a 1960s Lens (Video)

Emily Longeretta Since “Chicago Fire” began in 2012, it has been heating up in more ways than one — and the spinoffs followed suit.

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“There’s nothing wishy-washing about working with Phyllis Nagy,” Elizabeth Banks tells Deadline of working with the Call Jane director. “She’s very gentle with her direction but she’s also firm with what she expects or wants out of something, which I really appreciate.”

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Roadside Attractions has scooped up the U.S. rights to “Call Jane,” the period piece abortion drama that stars Elizabeth Banks and made its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this year.

initial teaser released last month, this new, full look gives a preview of all three parts of West’s epic journey. “When I first put the camera on this up-and-coming producer back in ’98, I knew he was destined for greatness.

including here at TheWrap), but has drawn fire on social media for the fact that the film calls the men “terrorists,” and because the filmmaker herself is not Muslim. One typical tweet by writer Jude Chehab of Turkish news website TRT World says: “When I, a practising Muslim woman say [the film’] is problematic, my voice should be stronger than a white woman saying it’s not.”Smaker, who spent five years making the film, told TheWrap that the movie challenges assumptions about people Americans regard as terrorists, while also offering a never-before-seen perspective into the men who embraced the ideology of groups like al Qaeda.

Angelique Jackson The story of the 2014 Jackson Robinson West little league baseball team’s championship run and subsequent downfall will be chronicled in the feature-length documentary “One Golden Summer.”The all-Black team from Chicago’s South Side defied expectations to win the U.S. Little League Championship, going on to face the baseball team from Seoul, South Korea, for the world title.

Guy Lodge Film CriticIf the Jane Collective has gone under-credited in American women’s rights history over the last half-century, independent cinema is doing its best to make up for lost time. Right on the heels of Phyllis Nagy’s colorful fictionalized drama “Call Jane,” “The Janes” is the second film at this year’s Sundance festival dedicated to the female-staffed, Chicago-based underground service that provided over 11,000 illegal abortions to women in need between 1968 and 1973, at which point Roe v.

ANKARA, Turkey -- Fatma Girik, a beloved Turkish screen actress of the 1960s and 1970s and one-time district mayor, has died. She was 79.Girik died Monday in a hospital in Istanbul of multiple organ failure while being treated for COVID-19-related pneumonia, according to a statement from the Liv Hospital.Along with Turkan Soray, Filiz Akin and Hulya Kocyigit, Girik was considered one of the four most iconic actresses of the Turkish film industry that was known as “Yesilcam” — after the street in Istanbul where film companies were based.

Chris Willman Music WriterNetflix’s epic Kanye West documentary, “Jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy,” will unfold in three feature-length parts, as the subtitle promises. (The first part premiered Sunday in the Sundance Film Festival, and gets a one-night theatrical release Feb.

In the film, Banks plays Joy, a smart wife and assistant to her lawyer-husband who discovers that she has been diagnosed with a rare condition that could kill her if she carries her unborn baby to term. But when her abortion is denied by an all-male medical board, she finds refuge with a group of women involved in The Jane Collective, an underground group secretly providing abortions in Chicago.The Jane Collective was a service that ran from 1969 until 1973 when the Roe v.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticThere are a whole lot of cigarettes in “Call Jane,” a detail — along with flip bob hairstyles and polyester pantsuits — that demonstrates director Phyllis Nagy’s commitment to the late-’60s period, even as it shows that the movie isn’t trying to tell women what to do with their bodies. Inspired by true events, this Sundance-blessed abortion drama takes place more than 50 years ago, but it could hardly be more timely today, as the Supreme Court considers several cases with the potential to roll back the freedoms granted by Roe v.

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Gregg Goldstein What brings documentaries to life? For an increasing number of them, it’s colorful characters — literally. Animation is making docs more accessible to a wider audience, allowing filmmakers to dramatize scenes that can’t be shown with footage and bringing them into once-unimagined awards categories.No film has demonstrated this more clearly than Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s refugee saga “Flee.” The Neon/Participant release made Oscar shortlists for both documentary feature and international feature film, won a Gotham Award for documentary and Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary.

Catherine Zeta-Jones often shares sweet insights into her home life through photos and videos shared on her Instagram account. However, there are occasions that her family are less than enthusiastic about her love of filming!This week, Catherine shared a video featuring her husband Michael Douglas and their two children together, Dylan, 21, and Carys, 18.A post shared by Catherine Zeta-Jones (@catherinezetajones) The family can be seen travelling across a snowy landscape in a carriage being pulled by two horses. Catherine then turns the camera on each member of the group – who are considerably less eager that the star."When your family just isn't up for another home movie shoot," the Chicago star captioned the video.