Superman is armed with a new name, while Tony Stark has remained bonded to his iron moniker, but how will the battle of strength unfold at the multiplexes?
The annual battle of the superheroes for film-goers' esteem has at last kicked off. Iron Man has beaten the rest to the draw; but the first opponent he'll have to face has already stolen a march on him. Superman, who hits UK screens in June, is changing his name as if to mock his rival. This time around he'll be flying under the alias "Man of Steel". Iron versus steel? On the face of it, no contest.
Iron may be the most abundant element on Earth, but in its pure form it just rusts away into oxides. While ancient gold and silver artefacts survive, most of their iron age equivalents have been lost to corrosion. Iron can't be fashioned easily into any but the crudest of implements.
The annual battle of the superheroes for film-goers' esteem has at last kicked off. Iron Man has beaten the rest to the draw; but the first opponent he'll have to face has already stolen a march on him. Superman, who hits UK screens in June, is changing his name as if to mock his rival. This time around he'll be flying under the alias "Man of Steel". Iron versus steel? On the face of it, no contest.
Iron may be the most abundant element on Earth, but in its pure form it just rusts away into oxides. While ancient gold and silver artefacts survive, most of their iron age equivalents have been lost to corrosion. Iron can't be fashioned easily into any but the crudest of implements.
- 4/29/2013
- by David Cox
- The Guardian - Film News
A new British film charts the battle of Wapping printworkers in 1986 against the Murdoch empire. It even stars Bob Hoskins
An industrial estate in Isleworth, west London, on Friday evening would swiftly disabuse anyone of the notion that film-making is a glamorous business. Extras in donkey jackets huddle in the rain around unlit braziers as the stench from the nearby sewage works drifts across the scene. A flu-ridden Bob Hoskins rubs his hands, his coughing drowned out by the whine of jets sinking into Heathrow. Spluttering old Transit vans are reversed into position, hand-painted signs that read "6,000 sacked by foreign bosses" are brandished, two police horses clop up, and suddenly we are transported back to Wapping in 1986.
"It's not about progress, it's about profit," shouts Hoskins as 70 extras gather around him, playing striking printers attempting to stop Rupert Murdoch's new Wapping printworks from getting its newspapers out. The sky...
An industrial estate in Isleworth, west London, on Friday evening would swiftly disabuse anyone of the notion that film-making is a glamorous business. Extras in donkey jackets huddle in the rain around unlit braziers as the stench from the nearby sewage works drifts across the scene. A flu-ridden Bob Hoskins rubs his hands, his coughing drowned out by the whine of jets sinking into Heathrow. Spluttering old Transit vans are reversed into position, hand-painted signs that read "6,000 sacked by foreign bosses" are brandished, two police horses clop up, and suddenly we are transported back to Wapping in 1986.
"It's not about progress, it's about profit," shouts Hoskins as 70 extras gather around him, playing striking printers attempting to stop Rupert Murdoch's new Wapping printworks from getting its newspapers out. The sky...
- 5/3/2012
- by Patrick Barkham
- The Guardian - Film News
The definitive verdict on the biopic from former Guardian political editor Michael White, who observed Thatcher up close as a young sketchwriter in the 1970s
It would be easy to imagine saying to Meryl Streep, "I knew Margaret Thatcher. You're no Margaret Thatcher," as an American politician once did to a rival who compared himself to President John F Kennedy. Easy, but wrong. Streep's interpretation of Thatcher in three distinct stages of her career, before, during and after her 11-year premiership, is a remarkable and sensitive achievement. Give the woman another Oscar, the pair of them can share it. Hollywood would like that.
The jibe could be levelled against Phyllida Lloyd's film. The Iron Lady certainly contains a selection of Thatcher's greatest handbaggings – which everyone much over 40 will remember with nostalgic glee or a shudder. We all knew her. But it is background. What cinema-goers will remember from this film is its foreground,...
It would be easy to imagine saying to Meryl Streep, "I knew Margaret Thatcher. You're no Margaret Thatcher," as an American politician once did to a rival who compared himself to President John F Kennedy. Easy, but wrong. Streep's interpretation of Thatcher in three distinct stages of her career, before, during and after her 11-year premiership, is a remarkable and sensitive achievement. Give the woman another Oscar, the pair of them can share it. Hollywood would like that.
The jibe could be levelled against Phyllida Lloyd's film. The Iron Lady certainly contains a selection of Thatcher's greatest handbaggings – which everyone much over 40 will remember with nostalgic glee or a shudder. We all knew her. But it is background. What cinema-goers will remember from this film is its foreground,...
- 1/4/2012
- by Michael White
- The Guardian - Film News
Can an inaccuracy derail a good story? Does a film based on a historical event need to be (somewhat) accurate? Nigel Cole’s Made In Dagenham attempts to work out a win-win solution – it compresses and summarizes the little known (outside of Britain, I suppose) 1968 Ford sewing machinists strike. The strike was distinctive for two primary reasons: the strikers were all women and the conclusion let to the embattled Equal Pay Act 1970 being put into effect in 1975. TV-bred screenwriter William Ivory must be no stranger to this kind of easy-going footnoting with little regard for real history, so Made In Dagenham plays like a lark, its few genuinely rewarding scenes resting on the laurels of the talented and easily relatable Ms. Hawkins.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I think even if a film makes a complete mockery of history, as long as its entertaining and thought provoking, it has...
Now, don’t get me wrong, I think even if a film makes a complete mockery of history, as long as its entertaining and thought provoking, it has...
- 3/30/2011
- by Mark Zhuravsky
- JustPressPlay.net
Made in Dagenham; Tamara Drew; We Are What We Are; Dream Home; Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
If the stamp of a good critic is their ability to predict award-winning hits, then my detractors will be pleased to know that I'm probably out of a job. Last summer I was confidently declaring that the wonderful British movie Made in Dagenham (2010, Paramount, 15) would become "this year's Full Monty": a solid drama which coated its serious subject matter (equal pay for women) in enough feelgood froth to appeal to mainstream multiplex audiences on both sides of the Atlantic while also garnering multiple statuettes. In the end, having been shamefully overlooked at both the Golden Globes and the Oscars, the movie turned out to be more like "this year's Brassed Off", another home-grown gem which has grown in stature since opening to only moderate box-office success in 1996, and which...
If the stamp of a good critic is their ability to predict award-winning hits, then my detractors will be pleased to know that I'm probably out of a job. Last summer I was confidently declaring that the wonderful British movie Made in Dagenham (2010, Paramount, 15) would become "this year's Full Monty": a solid drama which coated its serious subject matter (equal pay for women) in enough feelgood froth to appeal to mainstream multiplex audiences on both sides of the Atlantic while also garnering multiple statuettes. In the end, having been shamefully overlooked at both the Golden Globes and the Oscars, the movie turned out to be more like "this year's Brassed Off", another home-grown gem which has grown in stature since opening to only moderate box-office success in 1996, and which...
- 3/27/2011
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
With a stellar British cast, Made In Dagenham is the inspiring story of the women who made history. Award-winning Sally Hawkins is Rita O’Grady, a feisty yet warm-hearted worker at the Ford car plant in Dagenham who leads the girls in a revolution for equal pay for women.
Not only is Made in Dagenham a wonderful film, it also happens to be the perfect Mother’s Day present (that’s April the 3rd to save you checking your calendar), so HeyUGuys are offering you the chance to win one of five copies of the film on DVD.
Set in the swinging sixties against a stunningly colourful backdrop of beehives and Biba dresses, Made In Dagenham follows the emotional journey of a group of friends including Jaime Winstone (Donkey Punch, Kidulthood) and Geraldine James (Calendar Girls) from the factory floor to the House of Commons where these inspirational women meet...
Not only is Made in Dagenham a wonderful film, it also happens to be the perfect Mother’s Day present (that’s April the 3rd to save you checking your calendar), so HeyUGuys are offering you the chance to win one of five copies of the film on DVD.
Set in the swinging sixties against a stunningly colourful backdrop of beehives and Biba dresses, Made In Dagenham follows the emotional journey of a group of friends including Jaime Winstone (Donkey Punch, Kidulthood) and Geraldine James (Calendar Girls) from the factory floor to the House of Commons where these inspirational women meet...
- 3/21/2011
- by Competitons
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
2010 British film titled Made In Dagenham and directed by Nigel Cole is definitely something that deserves our full attention.
If you’re asking why – then let me remind you that the movie was nominated for four awards at the 2010 British Academy Film Awards and at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival premiere, the movie was described as “combination of Milk and Mad Men.” Sounds good?
So, when we’re here at the beginning, let’s take a look at the above mentioned nominations. Here are categories: Outstanding British Film, Costume Design, Make Up & Hair Design and Supporting Actress – Miranda Richardson.
Not bad, but if you ask the actress Rosamund Pike (also stars in the movie) she believes that Made in Dagenham deserved greater recognition.
In an interview with the BBC, Pike said British films were being unfairly overlooked in favour of Hollywood rivals as voters “watch them over Christmas.”
In addition to that,...
If you’re asking why – then let me remind you that the movie was nominated for four awards at the 2010 British Academy Film Awards and at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival premiere, the movie was described as “combination of Milk and Mad Men.” Sounds good?
So, when we’re here at the beginning, let’s take a look at the above mentioned nominations. Here are categories: Outstanding British Film, Costume Design, Make Up & Hair Design and Supporting Actress – Miranda Richardson.
Not bad, but if you ask the actress Rosamund Pike (also stars in the movie) she believes that Made in Dagenham deserved greater recognition.
In an interview with the BBC, Pike said British films were being unfairly overlooked in favour of Hollywood rivals as voters “watch them over Christmas.”
In addition to that,...
- 1/27/2011
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
Tom Hooper's "The King's Speech" and Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan" received 15 selections each for this year's British Academy Film Awards longlist.
This announcement is prior to the official nominations. This is the result of the first round of voting by British Academy members. When they vote the second time, they will cut the number of films to five in each category. Then, Academy members will vote for the third time to pick the winners. The Orange British Academy Film Awards ceremony will be held on Feb. 13.
Here's the complete list of nominees (Check our Awards Avenue for complete winners/nominees for all award-giving bodies):
Best Film
127 Hours
Another Year
Black Swan
The Fighter
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King.s Speech
Made In Dagenham
Shutter Island
The Social Network
The Town
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter.s Bone...
This announcement is prior to the official nominations. This is the result of the first round of voting by British Academy members. When they vote the second time, they will cut the number of films to five in each category. Then, Academy members will vote for the third time to pick the winners. The Orange British Academy Film Awards ceremony will be held on Feb. 13.
Here's the complete list of nominees (Check our Awards Avenue for complete winners/nominees for all award-giving bodies):
Best Film
127 Hours
Another Year
Black Swan
The Fighter
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King.s Speech
Made In Dagenham
Shutter Island
The Social Network
The Town
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter.s Bone...
- 1/7/2011
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
When most folks think of Great Britain in the 1960′s they remember the Fab Four and Sean Connery keeping the world safe from S.P.E.C.T.R.E., and not the same social upheavals that were happening here in the states. One of the great 60′s movements, sexual equality, is the main focus of director Nigel Cole’s new docudrama Made In Dagenham. I must admit that I had never heard of this story, so I was ready for a dose of history during that swingin’ time.
The town of Dagenham was the home of one of several British based Ford automobile plants. After a few minutes of introductory newsreel footage and vintage commercials, we see the women bicycling into the factory to start their work day. The working conditions are not ideal as we see many of the women strip down to their undergarments (Caution! Possible eye injury!
The town of Dagenham was the home of one of several British based Ford automobile plants. After a few minutes of introductory newsreel footage and vintage commercials, we see the women bicycling into the factory to start their work day. The working conditions are not ideal as we see many of the women strip down to their undergarments (Caution! Possible eye injury!
- 12/29/2010
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
One of 2010's inspiring charmers is "Made in Dagenham," which tells of the 1968 strike by women machinists at the Ford Motor Co. plant in Dagenham, outside London. The strike led to the rise of the equal-pay-for-equal-work movement and to changes in the workplace the world over.The film stars Sally Hawkins ("Happy-Go-Lucky," "Persuasion") as Rita, a young factory worker at the plant where a group of 181 women who sew leather upholstery for car seats have been reclassified as unskilled labor. Rita, although shy and well-behaved, is spotted by the union representative (Bob Hoskins) as the best woman to meet with Ford's industrial relations department. Rita finds her voice and leads the women to strike and hold fast for pay equal to that of their male counterparts. In the process, she is asked to meet with and secure the support of Barbara Castle, secretary of state for employment and productivity, played...
- 12/8/2010
- backstage.com
Some of the best heroes are the ones who never intended to be heroic. Take Rita O'Grady. She was a housewife who worked at the Ford manufacturing plant in Dagenham in Britain. She and her fellow women, 187 total, decided to make a stand against the corporation. All they wanted at first was to be considered semi-skilled employees -- since they stitched all their work by hand. Then, through the machinations of a gnomish supervisor, the battle became the forefront for the establishment of equal pay. Rita O'Grady wasn't some iron-jawed angel, she wasn't a battle ax brunhilde waving her burning bra in the air. She simply wanted to be treated fairly. Made in Dagenham tells this important story without trying to turn O'Grady into a hero. She's a frightened little mouse of a woman, who makes a fierce stand and won't back down when her co-workers turn on her, when her friends turn on her,...
- 12/6/2010
- by Brian Prisco
Made in Dagenham
Directed by: Nigel Cole
Cast: Sally Hawkins, Rosamund Pike, Bob Hoskins, Miranda Richardson
Running Time: 1 hr 58 mins
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: November 24, 2010 (Chicago)
Plot: In 1968, the Ford Company was brought to a standstill when 187 women in the Dagenham machinist’s section went on strike in order to fight for equal pay.
Who’S It For? Those who enjoy “inspirational” true stories, or are curious about a small-town movement for equal pay that started a whole wave of change in the workplace.
Expectations: I wasn’t too familiar with the story, but Sally Hawkins won my attention with her performance in Happy-Go-Lucky. A film that I missed at this year’s previous Chicago International Film Festival, I was on board, albeit curiously.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Sally Hawkins as Rita O’Grady: Her heroism seems reluctant, as she’s not a woman who is first to speak out (she...
Directed by: Nigel Cole
Cast: Sally Hawkins, Rosamund Pike, Bob Hoskins, Miranda Richardson
Running Time: 1 hr 58 mins
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: November 24, 2010 (Chicago)
Plot: In 1968, the Ford Company was brought to a standstill when 187 women in the Dagenham machinist’s section went on strike in order to fight for equal pay.
Who’S It For? Those who enjoy “inspirational” true stories, or are curious about a small-town movement for equal pay that started a whole wave of change in the workplace.
Expectations: I wasn’t too familiar with the story, but Sally Hawkins won my attention with her performance in Happy-Go-Lucky. A film that I missed at this year’s previous Chicago International Film Festival, I was on board, albeit curiously.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Sally Hawkins as Rita O’Grady: Her heroism seems reluctant, as she’s not a woman who is first to speak out (she...
- 11/24/2010
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
Pattz-Stew Global: Avid fans of “Twilight” stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have launched a grassroots campaign to fund “For Your Consideration” ads in the Hollywood trade papers advocating Oscar consideration for “Welcome to the Rileys” (for best picture) and its stars James Gandolfini (for best actor), Melissa Leo (for best actress), and especially Stewart (for best supporting actress) — which is more than the film’s distributor, Samuel Goldwyn Films, has done. “Think how incredible it would be to see these three incredible actors gracing the Academy Award red carpet,” the mission statement suggests, adding, “We are seeking to raise $50,000 by December 15th.” Thus far, $130 has been contributed.
New York Post: Emily Smith reports on “Page Six” that Ronni Chasen, the high-profile Hollywood publicist whose murder last week remains a mystery, suspected she was being followed, according to one of her friends (whose identity is kept anonymous). The source says,...
New York Post: Emily Smith reports on “Page Six” that Ronni Chasen, the high-profile Hollywood publicist whose murder last week remains a mystery, suspected she was being followed, according to one of her friends (whose identity is kept anonymous). The source says,...
- 11/24/2010
- by Mary Skawinski
- Scott Feinberg
In the movie Made in Dagenham, opening November 19th, a group of women employed at one of England's biggest Ford plants turns an isolated labor dispute into a passionate fight for equality. The inspirational true story is relatively unknown even in its nation of origin, and director Nigel Cole is eager to introduce a new generation to the women of Dagenham. Along with stars Miranda Richardson, who plays Barbara Castle, and Sally Hawkins, who plays heroine Rita O'Grady, Cole sat down with Ology and others in a roundtable interview to discuss his process.
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- 11/19/2010
- by Josh Harrison
- Filmology
Miranda Richardson and Sally Hawkins in Made in Dagenham
Photo: Sony Pictures Classics Made in Dagenham isn't a groundbreaking piece of story telling. It's essentially your typical story of people fighting through a hardship and coming out on top in the end. What makes it better than the rest are the performances, most notably the performance of Sally Hawkins who may be small in stature, but she can sure deliver a wallop of emotion.
Directed by Nigel Cole (Calendar Girls), the film centers on a group of women working at Dagenham's Ford Motor Factory in the 1960s as they struggle for the right to earn equal pay as their male counterparts. The story specifically focuses on Rita O'Grady (Sally Hawkins) as she becomes the voice of the group once they decide to go on strike, effectively halting production in the factory. It's a move that cripples the company, but at...
Photo: Sony Pictures Classics Made in Dagenham isn't a groundbreaking piece of story telling. It's essentially your typical story of people fighting through a hardship and coming out on top in the end. What makes it better than the rest are the performances, most notably the performance of Sally Hawkins who may be small in stature, but she can sure deliver a wallop of emotion.
Directed by Nigel Cole (Calendar Girls), the film centers on a group of women working at Dagenham's Ford Motor Factory in the 1960s as they struggle for the right to earn equal pay as their male counterparts. The story specifically focuses on Rita O'Grady (Sally Hawkins) as she becomes the voice of the group once they decide to go on strike, effectively halting production in the factory. It's a move that cripples the company, but at...
- 11/19/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Sony Classics
Attention ladies (and gents too): If you liked the feel-good Helen Mirren starrer “Calendar Girls,” chances are you’ll love “Made in Dagenham.” A similarly uplifting tale that puts some of Britain’s best actresses front and center, “Dagenham” finds “Calendar Girls” director Nigel Cole telling another true story of women coming together to make a difference.
Sally Hawkins subs for Mirren as ring leader Rita O’Grady in “Dagenham.” The year is 1968, in a large suburb in east London. Unhappy with the substandard pay, sexual discrimination and awful working conditions at the Ford Dagenham car plant where she works with 186 other women, O’Grady stages a strike to demand equal pay.
With the aid of a sympathetic union representative (an endearing Bob Hoskins), their case makes headlines and attracts the attention of Britain’s Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity Barbara Castle (Miranda Richardson), who champions their cause,...
Attention ladies (and gents too): If you liked the feel-good Helen Mirren starrer “Calendar Girls,” chances are you’ll love “Made in Dagenham.” A similarly uplifting tale that puts some of Britain’s best actresses front and center, “Dagenham” finds “Calendar Girls” director Nigel Cole telling another true story of women coming together to make a difference.
Sally Hawkins subs for Mirren as ring leader Rita O’Grady in “Dagenham.” The year is 1968, in a large suburb in east London. Unhappy with the substandard pay, sexual discrimination and awful working conditions at the Ford Dagenham car plant where she works with 186 other women, O’Grady stages a strike to demand equal pay.
With the aid of a sympathetic union representative (an endearing Bob Hoskins), their case makes headlines and attracts the attention of Britain’s Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity Barbara Castle (Miranda Richardson), who champions their cause,...
- 11/18/2010
- by Nigel Smith
- NextMovie
Signing on to play Secretary of Labor Barbara Castle in Made in Dagenham, Miranda Richardson had the unenviable task of portraying an iconic character in British history, who helped shepherd the country's landmark Equal Pay Act in 1970. Luckily for Richardson, she's an actress and not a historian, coming to the role of Castle knowing little about the woman herself, but a lot about how to embody the character with verve, wit, and yes sex appeal-- not exactly what you expect to see from a female politician who was 58 when the events of the movie took place, but perfect for Made in Dagenham's energetic take on history. Telling the story of the female employees at a British auto plant who went on strike demanding equal pay, Made in Dagenham stars Sally Hawkins as the unlikely leader of the striking women, with Richardson's Castle paying attention at the highest levels of...
- 11/17/2010
- cinemablend.com
Just a few hours after this writer was taken to task for not mentioning actress Miranda Richardson in my Oscar preview of Nigel Cole's Made in Dagenham and a few days after seeing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows . Part 1 --in which her Rita Skeeter makes a brief cameo--ComingSoon.net found ourselves sitting at the back of the Tribeca Grand Screening Room talking with Ms. Richardson herself about both movies. We were there for a special presentation of Made in Dagenham for the National Women's Law Center followed by a Q & A with two of the actual women from Dagenham and U.S. equal pay advocate Lilly Ledbetter, which Richardson was graciously co-presenting. In "Dagenham," Richardson plays Barbara Castle, one of the only high-powered women politicians in...
- 11/17/2010
- Comingsoon.net
Nigel Cole’s films are both utterly charming and unapologetically transgressive. From his directorial debut, Saving Grace that centered on a retiree-cum-pot dealer, to Calendar Girls, which focused on female senior citizens who pose nude for a fundraising calendar, to Made in Dagenham, a docu-dramedy that follows chipper female machinists in their fight for equal rights, Cole’s films are cheerful and poignant while being challenging and thought-provoking.
His latest, Made in Dagenham, centers on Rita O’Grady (Sally Hawkins) and a group of women machinists, whose fight for equal pay drew national attention, and ultimately changed the world. The film not only tells the tale of these brave blue-collar workers but also connects their struggle to that of an educated but undermined upper middle class housewife, Lisa (Rosamund Pike), and powerful yet patronized politician Barbara Castle (Miranda Richardson).
Like his films, Cole is so casually winning that within moments of our introduction,...
His latest, Made in Dagenham, centers on Rita O’Grady (Sally Hawkins) and a group of women machinists, whose fight for equal pay drew national attention, and ultimately changed the world. The film not only tells the tale of these brave blue-collar workers but also connects their struggle to that of an educated but undermined upper middle class housewife, Lisa (Rosamund Pike), and powerful yet patronized politician Barbara Castle (Miranda Richardson).
Like his films, Cole is so casually winning that within moments of our introduction,...
- 11/16/2010
- by Kristy Puchko
- The Film Stage
In "Made in Dagenham," Nigel Cole's uplifting true account of the 1968 Ford sewing machinists strike, British stage and screen vet Miranda Richardson embodies famous redhead and British Secretary of State for Employment Barbara Castle. In typical fashion for the Oscar-nominee, Richardson rips into the role of the outspoken politician, crafting a Castle full of swagger, unwavering confidence and brash femininity for a film full of strong turns from the ...
- 11/16/2010
- indieWIRE - People
In "Made in Dagenham," Nigel Cole's uplifting true account of the 1968 Ford sewing machinists strike, British stage and screen vet Miranda Richardson embodies famous redhead and British Secretary of State for Employment Barbara Castle. In typical fashion for the Oscar-nominee, Richardson rips into the role of the outspoken politician, crafting a Castle full of swagger, unwavering confidence and brash femininity for a film full of strong turns from the ...
- 11/16/2010
- Indiewire
In "Made in Dagenham," Nigel Cole's uplifting true account of the 1968 Ford sewing machinists strike, British stage and screen vet Miranda Richardson embodies famous redhead and British Secretary of State for Employment Barbara Castle. In typical fashion for the Oscar-nominee, Richardson rips into the role of the outspoken politician, crafting a Castle full of swagger, unwavering confidence and brash femininity for a film full of strong turns from the ...
- 11/16/2010
- indieWIRE - People
In "Made in Dagenham," Nigel Cole's uplifting true account of the 1968 Ford sewing machinists strike, British stage and screen vet Miranda Richardson embodies famous redhead and British Secretary of State for Employment Barbara Castle. In typical fashion for the Oscar-nominee, Richardson rips into the role of the outspoken politician, crafting a Castle full of swagger, unwavering confidence and brash femininity for a film full of strong turns from the ...
- 11/16/2010
- indieWIRE - People
Annette Bening and Julianne Moore in The Kids are All Right
Photo: Focus Features As I pointed out yesterday, my Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress predictions went through a bit of a re-shuffle and instead of explaining everything going on with my thoughts on Lesley Manville's position for Another Year in a predictions piece I decided to put it all in one article so we could focus on the matter at hand today as opposed to debating her placement as lead vs. supporting.
Best Actress Rank Nominee 1 Annette Bening (The Kids are All Right) 2 Natalie Portman (Black Swan) 3 Lesley Manville (Another Year) 4 Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole) 5 Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone) Click Here For Complete Chart We'll begin with the Best Actress category, which I believe has a clear leader in Annette Bening for The Kids are All Right, but don't confuse that with me thinking she has the best performance of the year.
Photo: Focus Features As I pointed out yesterday, my Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress predictions went through a bit of a re-shuffle and instead of explaining everything going on with my thoughts on Lesley Manville's position for Another Year in a predictions piece I decided to put it all in one article so we could focus on the matter at hand today as opposed to debating her placement as lead vs. supporting.
Best Actress Rank Nominee 1 Annette Bening (The Kids are All Right) 2 Natalie Portman (Black Swan) 3 Lesley Manville (Another Year) 4 Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole) 5 Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone) Click Here For Complete Chart We'll begin with the Best Actress category, which I believe has a clear leader in Annette Bening for The Kids are All Right, but don't confuse that with me thinking she has the best performance of the year.
- 10/28/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Given my Dagenham background - I went to school there and started my journalistic career there and still play cricket there once a year - it was natural that I should go to see the new movie Made in Dagenham.
It's about the 1968 strike by female sewing machinists at Ford's that led directly to the passing of the Equal Pay Act two years later.
I left the Barking & Dagenham Advertiser in 1967, so I wasn't a witness to the dispute, but I covered almost every strike - all by men, of course - in the previous three-and-a-half years.
So I soon spotted the film's flaws. The women it portrayed were too young and too pretty.
They may have used bad language, but not as casually as suggested, and the f-word was certainly not in common use among women of that generation at that time. (A letter-writer to yesterday's Daily Mail, former Dagenham resident Jacquee Storozynski-Toll,...
It's about the 1968 strike by female sewing machinists at Ford's that led directly to the passing of the Equal Pay Act two years later.
I left the Barking & Dagenham Advertiser in 1967, so I wasn't a witness to the dispute, but I covered almost every strike - all by men, of course - in the previous three-and-a-half years.
So I soon spotted the film's flaws. The women it portrayed were too young and too pretty.
They may have used bad language, but not as casually as suggested, and the f-word was certainly not in common use among women of that generation at that time. (A letter-writer to yesterday's Daily Mail, former Dagenham resident Jacquee Storozynski-Toll,...
- 10/13/2010
- by Roy Greenslade
- The Guardian - Film News
This 'real-life' tale sends out a mythical message: that female common sense is the solution to the world's problems
Many people seem to find Made in Dagenham not just funny and affecting but also exceptionally uplifting. The film presses many well-worn buttons, and which of these activates its feelgood firepower is open to debate. Still, one candidate perhaps stands out.
Dagenham in the 1960s is presented as in thrall to blinkered routine, bumbling incompetence and heedless injustice. It's a place controlled by men, and its deficiencies spring from theirs. Women have been shunted to the margins, where their contribution goes unrecognised and their potential unexplored. But lo!
The women rise up. They realise they can and should overcome their male oppressors. Yet the way to do this isn't to try and beat them at their own game. Men believe in convention, authority and hierarchy. They favour abstract theory, systems and rule-books.
Many people seem to find Made in Dagenham not just funny and affecting but also exceptionally uplifting. The film presses many well-worn buttons, and which of these activates its feelgood firepower is open to debate. Still, one candidate perhaps stands out.
Dagenham in the 1960s is presented as in thrall to blinkered routine, bumbling incompetence and heedless injustice. It's a place controlled by men, and its deficiencies spring from theirs. Women have been shunted to the margins, where their contribution goes unrecognised and their potential unexplored. But lo!
The women rise up. They realise they can and should overcome their male oppressors. Yet the way to do this isn't to try and beat them at their own game. Men believe in convention, authority and hierarchy. They favour abstract theory, systems and rule-books.
- 10/4/2010
- by David Cox
- The Guardian - Film News
The strike by women at the Dagenham Ford factory in 1968 that led to the Equal Pay Act is given the Calendar Girls treatment
Andrzej Wajda's superb Man of Iron (1981) was shot in the Gdansk shipyards at the very heart of Solidarity's activities, gave Lech Walesa a brief role as himself, and became part of the political process it commented on. It was a rare case of a feature film based on a major episode in the history of organised labour made close to the actual events. More typically, Mario Monicelli's The Organizer (1963) was a bracing reconstruction of a strike in late 19th-century Turin. Bo Widerberg's Adalen 31 (1969) lyrically recreated the violent strike in northern Sweden that ushered in 40 years of Social Democratic government.
There was an even greater gap in the case of Comrades (1986), Bill Douglas's epic account of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, the Dorset labourers transported...
Andrzej Wajda's superb Man of Iron (1981) was shot in the Gdansk shipyards at the very heart of Solidarity's activities, gave Lech Walesa a brief role as himself, and became part of the political process it commented on. It was a rare case of a feature film based on a major episode in the history of organised labour made close to the actual events. More typically, Mario Monicelli's The Organizer (1963) was a bracing reconstruction of a strike in late 19th-century Turin. Bo Widerberg's Adalen 31 (1969) lyrically recreated the violent strike in northern Sweden that ushered in 40 years of Social Democratic government.
There was an even greater gap in the case of Comrades (1986), Bill Douglas's epic account of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, the Dorset labourers transported...
- 10/2/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
It may have had a little too much of the grimness removed, but this sweet-natured film about a 1968 strike for equal pay is a properly feelgood film, says Peter Bradshaw
There could hardly be anything more exotic and unfamiliar in mainstream commercial cinema than the story of a successful strike. But this is what screenwriter Billy Ivory and director Nigel Cole give us with their broad, primary-coloured, good-humoured comedy – almost, but not exactly, a shopfloor version of Calendar Girls (2003), also directed by Cole, the film about the Wi women who posed nude to raise money for charity. Made in Dagenham is based on the Ford women car workers' strike of 1968, in which female staff sewing seat covers for Cortinas and Zephyrs went on strike for the same wage as the men. This commanded headlines, galvanised the political debate, and indirectly led to the Equal Pay Act of 1970.
It stars Sally Hawkins as Rita,...
There could hardly be anything more exotic and unfamiliar in mainstream commercial cinema than the story of a successful strike. But this is what screenwriter Billy Ivory and director Nigel Cole give us with their broad, primary-coloured, good-humoured comedy – almost, but not exactly, a shopfloor version of Calendar Girls (2003), also directed by Cole, the film about the Wi women who posed nude to raise money for charity. Made in Dagenham is based on the Ford women car workers' strike of 1968, in which female staff sewing seat covers for Cortinas and Zephyrs went on strike for the same wage as the men. This commanded headlines, galvanised the political debate, and indirectly led to the Equal Pay Act of 1970.
It stars Sally Hawkins as Rita,...
- 9/30/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
I am ashamed to say that I was entirely unfamiliar with the true life story behind Made in Dagenham. Though the 1968 strike by female machinists at the Dagenham Ford plant went on to change history it appears to have made little significant impact upon our history books. Veteran producers Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen intend to change that. In conjunction with Calendar Girls director Nigel Cole and writer Billy Ivory, the pair breathed dramatic life into the extraordinary tale of the 187 women who took on their corporate paymasters and changed the future for working women worldwide.
Dagenham lies deep at the industrial heart of Essex and at one time it was our Motor City. A bubble away from Swinging Sixties London where ‘50s values still dominated and women stood by their men not up for themselves. The status quo altered when the machinists at Ford’s flagship UK plant objected,...
Dagenham lies deep at the industrial heart of Essex and at one time it was our Motor City. A bubble away from Swinging Sixties London where ‘50s values still dominated and women stood by their men not up for themselves. The status quo altered when the machinists at Ford’s flagship UK plant objected,...
- 9/29/2010
- by Emily Breen
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
In 1968 a unique strike by 187 female machinists at the Ford Dagenham plant changed the course of history for working women worldwide. The stand made by those women led to the advent of the equal pay act, an unprecedented piece of legislation that finally offered women the opportunity for some financial parity. Director Nigel Cole and producers Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen determined to create an account of those events that captured the spirit of the women involved and introduced them to a wider audience than a documentary or newspaper article would ever achieve. Made in Dagenham was born of that conviction. HeyUGuys sat down with the three and with the film’s co-stars Jaime Winstone and Rosamund Pike ahead of the October 1st release to learn more.
Stephen Woolley happened across the Made in Dagenham story by chance when he heard a BBC Radio 4 broadcast, The Reunion, in which the...
Stephen Woolley happened across the Made in Dagenham story by chance when he heard a BBC Radio 4 broadcast, The Reunion, in which the...
- 9/29/2010
- by Emily Breen
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The latest film from the director of Calendar Girls, Made In Dagenham lacks the bite it needs to make it something special, Michael discovers...
The British film industry really does like charming, nostalgic period pieces, doesn't it? In the last year we've had The Boat That Rocked, Cemetery Junction and An Education, all which, to a certain extent, package up comedy and drama with a knowing representation of the 1960s and 1970s, an era where, if you believe the hype, everything changed. Made In Dagenham, the latest from Calendar Girls director Nigel Cole, is no different.
Here's the hook. It's 1968, and the female machinists at the Dagenham Ford motor car plant aren't happy. A recent pay restructure has classed them as unskilled, guaranteeing them wages well below the rates of their male colleagues. This is clearly unsuitable. So they strike.
Initially uncertain, the women are led by young worker Rita...
The British film industry really does like charming, nostalgic period pieces, doesn't it? In the last year we've had The Boat That Rocked, Cemetery Junction and An Education, all which, to a certain extent, package up comedy and drama with a knowing representation of the 1960s and 1970s, an era where, if you believe the hype, everything changed. Made In Dagenham, the latest from Calendar Girls director Nigel Cole, is no different.
Here's the hook. It's 1968, and the female machinists at the Dagenham Ford motor car plant aren't happy. A recent pay restructure has classed them as unskilled, guaranteeing them wages well below the rates of their male colleagues. This is clearly unsuitable. So they strike.
Initially uncertain, the women are led by young worker Rita...
- 9/29/2010
- Den of Geek
In 1968, a strike by female employees at Ford laid the groundwork for the Equal Pay Act. It seemed like a great triumph, but the truth has proved very different
Rip off your pinny, reach for the Biba frock, get that asymmetric bob: it's the 60s all over again. Feminism's second wave is brewing, Barbara Castle is first secretary of state and the 187 women who sew car seats at the Ford Dagenham plant are out on strike.
Made in Dagenham, the new film from the Calendar Girls team, goes on general release next month. It is an exhilarating conflation of a series of events that culminated in the Equal Pay Act 1970 – including the Ford strike, another at the Lucas components plant, and the formation of a national committee for women's equal rights. It is a film that will surely send everyone who sees it back into battle to close a pay...
Rip off your pinny, reach for the Biba frock, get that asymmetric bob: it's the 60s all over again. Feminism's second wave is brewing, Barbara Castle is first secretary of state and the 187 women who sew car seats at the Ford Dagenham plant are out on strike.
Made in Dagenham, the new film from the Calendar Girls team, goes on general release next month. It is an exhilarating conflation of a series of events that culminated in the Equal Pay Act 1970 – including the Ford strike, another at the Lucas components plant, and the formation of a national committee for women's equal rights. It is a film that will surely send everyone who sees it back into battle to close a pay...
- 9/24/2010
- by Anne Perkins
- The Guardian - Film News
Women from Fords Dagenham meet Theresa May to mark release of film about struggle for equal pay
The quartet of women reminiscing over tea, coffee and lemonade in a central London cafe did not look like hardened veterans of the struggle for sexual equality, nor, it has to be said, did they much resemble the usual stuff of the silver screen.
With their neatly set hair and smart-casual clothes, they could have been mistaken for old friends on a weekday jaunt to the capital in search of lunch, a show and perhaps some shopping.
But Sheila Douglass, Gwen Davis, Eileen Pullan and Vera Sime are not only indisputable pioneers in the field of employment equality, they are now the heroes of their own film.
Forty-two years ago, they were among a group of women at the Ford Motor Company plant in Dagenham who walked out after discovering that their male...
The quartet of women reminiscing over tea, coffee and lemonade in a central London cafe did not look like hardened veterans of the struggle for sexual equality, nor, it has to be said, did they much resemble the usual stuff of the silver screen.
With their neatly set hair and smart-casual clothes, they could have been mistaken for old friends on a weekday jaunt to the capital in search of lunch, a show and perhaps some shopping.
But Sheila Douglass, Gwen Davis, Eileen Pullan and Vera Sime are not only indisputable pioneers in the field of employment equality, they are now the heroes of their own film.
Forty-two years ago, they were among a group of women at the Ford Motor Company plant in Dagenham who walked out after discovering that their male...
- 9/23/2010
- by Sam Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
Sally Hawkins gives a winning performance in this uncomplicated film about industrial strife at the Ford plant
Audiences of a certain age may recall a British sitcom called The Rag Trade, which ran for a few years in the mid-1970s and highlighted the antics of the militant women at a London textile firm. These characters were forever clashing with management, endlessly threatening to down tools and head for the picket line. The show's catchphrase, delivered by Miriam Karlin's shop steward, was "Everybody out!"
Coincidentally, it is the same battle cry employed by Rita O'Grady (Sally Hawkins), the firebrand hero of Made in Dagenham, which premiered in London last night, suggesting that this fact-based film is informed as much by comedies about trade union disputes as by the disputes themselves. And so it proves.
The film pays loving tribute to the striking machinists at Ford's motor plant via the...
Audiences of a certain age may recall a British sitcom called The Rag Trade, which ran for a few years in the mid-1970s and highlighted the antics of the militant women at a London textile firm. These characters were forever clashing with management, endlessly threatening to down tools and head for the picket line. The show's catchphrase, delivered by Miriam Karlin's shop steward, was "Everybody out!"
Coincidentally, it is the same battle cry employed by Rita O'Grady (Sally Hawkins), the firebrand hero of Made in Dagenham, which premiered in London last night, suggesting that this fact-based film is informed as much by comedies about trade union disputes as by the disputes themselves. And so it proves.
The film pays loving tribute to the striking machinists at Ford's motor plant via the...
- 9/21/2010
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
There's a double helping of the Dane, Wall Street returns, Wallace and Gromit take up presenting – and Robyn goes for broke. Our critics pick this autumn's hottest shows
Theatre
Hamlet
Prepare for the latest battle of the princes. John Simm is first in the field at the Sheffield Crucible; then Rory Kinnear enters the running in a Nicholas Hytner production for the National Theatre. It's not, of course, a contest – but comparisons will be inevitable. Crucible, Sheffield (0114-249 6000), from 16 September; and Olivier, London SE1 (020-7452 3000), from 7 October.
The Thrill of it All
Forced Entertainment continues the British experimental tradition with an evening of vaudevillian capers, Japanese lounge music and tarnished sequins. Nuffield, Lancaster (01524 594151), 12-13 October. Then touring.
Tribes
Nina Raine follows her impressive debut play, Rabbits, with a drama about an unconventional family that has its own private language and rules. At its centre is Billy, who is deaf and...
Theatre
Hamlet
Prepare for the latest battle of the princes. John Simm is first in the field at the Sheffield Crucible; then Rory Kinnear enters the running in a Nicholas Hytner production for the National Theatre. It's not, of course, a contest – but comparisons will be inevitable. Crucible, Sheffield (0114-249 6000), from 16 September; and Olivier, London SE1 (020-7452 3000), from 7 October.
The Thrill of it All
Forced Entertainment continues the British experimental tradition with an evening of vaudevillian capers, Japanese lounge music and tarnished sequins. Nuffield, Lancaster (01524 594151), 12-13 October. Then touring.
Tribes
Nina Raine follows her impressive debut play, Rabbits, with a drama about an unconventional family that has its own private language and rules. At its centre is Billy, who is deaf and...
- 9/14/2010
- by Michael Billington, Peter Bradshaw, Andrew Clements, Robin Denselow, Alison Flood, John Fordham, Lyn Gardner, Jonathan Glancey, Brian Logan, Judith Mackrell, Alexis Petridis, Adrian Searle, Richard Vine
- The Guardian - Film News
An array of acting talent is wasted on a film that raised hopes of a new Full Monty but is mired in cheapness and banality
High hopes heralded the Toronto premiere of Made in Dagenham. This was to be the fiery but feelgood tale of a band of female workers who triumph over their own exploitation and go on to win new rights for womankind. It was all rooted in fact. Could this be one of those rare breakthrough Britflicks that enchant the world with their grittily wry realism, like The Full Monty or Billy Elliot?
The film portrays the machinists responsible for sewing Ford seat-covers who went on strike in 1968 when their exacting task was reclassified as unskilled. Their struggle became a national cause celebre and paved the way for the 1970 Equal Pay Act.
Veteran producers Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen decided to create fictional figures rather than depict the actual individuals involved.
High hopes heralded the Toronto premiere of Made in Dagenham. This was to be the fiery but feelgood tale of a band of female workers who triumph over their own exploitation and go on to win new rights for womankind. It was all rooted in fact. Could this be one of those rare breakthrough Britflicks that enchant the world with their grittily wry realism, like The Full Monty or Billy Elliot?
The film portrays the machinists responsible for sewing Ford seat-covers who went on strike in 1968 when their exacting task was reclassified as unskilled. Their struggle became a national cause celebre and paved the way for the 1970 Equal Pay Act.
Veteran producers Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen decided to create fictional figures rather than depict the actual individuals involved.
- 9/13/2010
- by David Cox
- The Guardian - Film News
The film now known as Made in Dagenham was originally titled 'We Want Sex'*, and the reason behind that is a real-life incident that's portrayed in the film - and, indeed, in this exclusive clip below.The story's all about the struggle for equal pay for equal work in 1968, led by female workers in Ford's Dagenham plant. Sally Hawkins plays Rita O'Grady, a leader of the protest, with Miranda Richardson as government minister Barbara Castle. It also stars Bob Hoskins, Rosamund Pile, Daniel Mays, Andrea Riseborough and Jaime Winstone (in the short shorts here).And here's why it was nearly called We Want Sex until the London Underground* got a little worried:Made in Dagenham is out in the UK on October 1. *It still is in some parts of the world, as producer Stephen Woolley discussed in our Cannes video diaries.
- 9/13/2010
- EmpireOnline
Made in Dagenham, the story of the Ford women's strike, is being rated by Us critics as the next Full Monty
Nervous, petite and a bit shy, Sally Hawkins is about to become one of Britain's most successful exports – and to give the town of Dagenham an unexpected moment of international glory.
The 34-year-old actress from south London has played starring roles in six films due for release this year and next, and the first to hit cinemas will tell the story of the 1968 strike at the Ford car works.
Made in Dagenham also stars Miranda Richardson, Jaime Winstone, Andrea Riseborough and Rosamund Pike, with Bob Hoskins and Kenneth Cranham playing the male leads. The film celebrates the 300 women machine workers at the car plant who walked out when their demand for the same pay grading as the men in the factory was refused. Their action led to the introduction...
Nervous, petite and a bit shy, Sally Hawkins is about to become one of Britain's most successful exports – and to give the town of Dagenham an unexpected moment of international glory.
The 34-year-old actress from south London has played starring roles in six films due for release this year and next, and the first to hit cinemas will tell the story of the 1968 strike at the Ford car works.
Made in Dagenham also stars Miranda Richardson, Jaime Winstone, Andrea Riseborough and Rosamund Pike, with Bob Hoskins and Kenneth Cranham playing the male leads. The film celebrates the 300 women machine workers at the car plant who walked out when their demand for the same pay grading as the men in the factory was refused. Their action led to the introduction...
- 7/26/2010
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
Sally Hawkins proves she’s not to be messed with in this clip, as she rallies her comrades together and sets the wheels in motion for women to be treated equally.
From the director of Calendar Girls comes the new comedy-drama with an all star British cast, Made in Dagenham. Sally Hawkins stars as Rita O’Grady, the catalyst for the 1968 Ford Dagenham strike by 187 sewing machinists which led to the Equal Pay Act. Working in extremely impoverished conditions and for long arduous hours, the women at the Ford Dagenham plant finally lay down their tools when they are reclassified as “unskilled”. With humour, common sense and courage they take on their corporate paymasters, an increasingly belligerent local community, and finally the government itself. The leader of the women’s struggle is fast-talking, no nonsense Rita, whose fiery temper and occasionally hilarious unpredictability proves to be a match for any of her male opponents,...
From the director of Calendar Girls comes the new comedy-drama with an all star British cast, Made in Dagenham. Sally Hawkins stars as Rita O’Grady, the catalyst for the 1968 Ford Dagenham strike by 187 sewing machinists which led to the Equal Pay Act. Working in extremely impoverished conditions and for long arduous hours, the women at the Ford Dagenham plant finally lay down their tools when they are reclassified as “unskilled”. With humour, common sense and courage they take on their corporate paymasters, an increasingly belligerent local community, and finally the government itself. The leader of the women’s struggle is fast-talking, no nonsense Rita, whose fiery temper and occasionally hilarious unpredictability proves to be a match for any of her male opponents,...
- 7/23/2010
- by helen.cowley@lovefilm.com (Helen Cowley)
- LOVEFiLM - Movie Clips
Sally Hawkins proves she’s not to be messed with in this clip, as she rallies her comrades together and sets the wheels in motion for women to be treated equally.
From the director of Calendar Girls comes the new comedy-drama with an all star British cast, Made in Dagenham. Sally Hawkins stars as Rita O’Grady, the catalyst for the 1968 Ford Dagenham strike by 187 sewing machinists which led to the Equal Pay Act. Working in extremely impoverished conditions and for long arduous hours, the women at the Ford Dagenham plant finally lay down their tools when they are reclassified as “unskilled”. With humour, common sense and courage they take on their corporate paymasters, an increasingly belligerent local community, and finally the government itself. The leader of the women’s struggle is fast-talking, no nonsense Rita, whose fiery temper and occasionally hilarious unpredictability proves to be a match for any of her male opponents,...
From the director of Calendar Girls comes the new comedy-drama with an all star British cast, Made in Dagenham. Sally Hawkins stars as Rita O’Grady, the catalyst for the 1968 Ford Dagenham strike by 187 sewing machinists which led to the Equal Pay Act. Working in extremely impoverished conditions and for long arduous hours, the women at the Ford Dagenham plant finally lay down their tools when they are reclassified as “unskilled”. With humour, common sense and courage they take on their corporate paymasters, an increasingly belligerent local community, and finally the government itself. The leader of the women’s struggle is fast-talking, no nonsense Rita, whose fiery temper and occasionally hilarious unpredictability proves to be a match for any of her male opponents,...
- 7/23/2010
- by helen.cowley@lovefilm.com (Helen Cowley)
- LOVEFiLM - Movie Clips
From the director of Calendar Girls and Saving Grace, Nigel Cole comes the new comedy-drama with an all star British cast, Made in Dagenham. Paramount Pictures UK is delighted to announce the theatrical release on October 1st in both the UK and Ireland for the film that was formerly known under the working title of We Want Sex.
Script is written by William Ivory (Common as Muck, Faith). A stellar all-cast was assembled for the film including award winning Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Miranda Richardson, Geraldine James, Rosamund Pike, Andrea Riseborough, Jaime Winstone, Daniel Mays and Richard Schiff.
Rita OGrady (Sally Hawkins) is the catalyst for the 1968 Ford Dagenham strike by 187 sewing machinists which led to the advent of the Equal Pay Act. Working in extremely impoverished conditions and for long arduous hours, the women at the Ford Dagenham plant finally lay down their tools when they are reclassified as unskilled.
Script is written by William Ivory (Common as Muck, Faith). A stellar all-cast was assembled for the film including award winning Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Miranda Richardson, Geraldine James, Rosamund Pike, Andrea Riseborough, Jaime Winstone, Daniel Mays and Richard Schiff.
Rita OGrady (Sally Hawkins) is the catalyst for the 1968 Ford Dagenham strike by 187 sewing machinists which led to the advent of the Equal Pay Act. Working in extremely impoverished conditions and for long arduous hours, the women at the Ford Dagenham plant finally lay down their tools when they are reclassified as unskilled.
- 6/4/2010
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
From the director of Calendar Girls comes Made in Dagenham, a new comedy-drama with an all-star British cast.
Paramount Pictures UK has announced that the film - formerly known under the working title of We Want Sex - will be released in UK cinemas on October 1.
It stars the award-winning Sally Hawkins (pictured right) as Rita O'Grady who is the catalyst for the 1968 Ford Dagenham strike by 187 sewing machinists which led to the advent of the Equal Pay Act.
Working in extremely impoverished conditions and for long, arduous hours, the women at the Ford Dagenham plant finally lay down their tools when they are reclassified as "unskilled".
With humour, common sense and courage they take on their corporate paymasters, an increasingly belligerent local community and finally the government itself.
The leader of the women's struggle is fast-talking, no-nonsense Rita whose fiery temper and occasionally hilarious unpredictability proves to be a...
Paramount Pictures UK has announced that the film - formerly known under the working title of We Want Sex - will be released in UK cinemas on October 1.
It stars the award-winning Sally Hawkins (pictured right) as Rita O'Grady who is the catalyst for the 1968 Ford Dagenham strike by 187 sewing machinists which led to the advent of the Equal Pay Act.
Working in extremely impoverished conditions and for long, arduous hours, the women at the Ford Dagenham plant finally lay down their tools when they are reclassified as "unskilled".
With humour, common sense and courage they take on their corporate paymasters, an increasingly belligerent local community and finally the government itself.
The leader of the women's struggle is fast-talking, no-nonsense Rita whose fiery temper and occasionally hilarious unpredictability proves to be a...
- 6/3/2010
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
Here’s a wonderful new trailer for a new Paramount UK /BBC Films production of a movie called Made in Dagenham. The movie focuses around sexual equality, fighting for equal pay and when you watch the trailer, I’m sure you’ll want to see the movie.
Made in Dagenham has a fantastic cast which includes Sally Hawkins, Miranda Richardson, Geraldine James, Rosamund Pike, Jamie Winstone, Daniel Mays and the legend himself, Bob Hoskins. It’s directed by Nigel Cole (Calendar Girls) and is set for release in the UK 1st October.
Full Synopsis: From the director of Calendar Girls comes the new comedy-drama with an all star British cast, Made in Dagenham. Paramount Pictures UK is delighted to announce the theatrical release on October 1st in both the UK and Ireland for the film that was formerly known under the working title of We Want Sex.
The film stars...
Made in Dagenham has a fantastic cast which includes Sally Hawkins, Miranda Richardson, Geraldine James, Rosamund Pike, Jamie Winstone, Daniel Mays and the legend himself, Bob Hoskins. It’s directed by Nigel Cole (Calendar Girls) and is set for release in the UK 1st October.
Full Synopsis: From the director of Calendar Girls comes the new comedy-drama with an all star British cast, Made in Dagenham. Paramount Pictures UK is delighted to announce the theatrical release on October 1st in both the UK and Ireland for the film that was formerly known under the working title of We Want Sex.
The film stars...
- 5/26/2010
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Sony Pictures Classics have pre-emptively picked up the rights to Made in Dagenham, Nigel Cole's foray into the women's movement in the heyday of 1968 - a Norma Rae or North Country type project. Formerly going by the more poignant, catchier title of We Want Sex, the project is destined for multiple film festival appearances and a release in the Fall, but most likely Spc will wait until Cannes buying is completed before attaching a date to the progressive, fact-based story. - Sony Pictures Classics have pre-emptively picked up the rights to Made in Dagenham, Nigel Cole's foray into the women's movement in the heyday of 1968 - a Norma Rae or North Country type project. Formerly going by the more poignant, catchier title of We Want Sex, the project is destined for multiple film festival appearances and a release in the Fall, but most likely Spc will wait until...
- 4/14/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Paramount Pictures will distribute Nigel Cole's "We Want Sex" in New Zealand, the U.K. as well as Australia. The film stars Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Andrea Riseborough, Jaime Winstone, Rosamund Pike and Daniel Mays. Film follows the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant when 850 female workers left their jobs in protest after sexual descrimination in their job performance evaluations. This contributed to women receiving equal pay in the work place. During the strike, the committee was invited to tea by the employment secretary Barbara Castle and it was during that meeting where the issue was raised for equal pay. Imelda Staunton ("Nanny McPhee," "Vera Drake") is currently in talks to play Castle.
- 9/7/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Once again I bring you the best round-up of all the movie updates announced in this past week's trade reports. Why read a Ton of articles when you can read just one? This week we get new cast members added to films such as Law Abiding Citizen and Carmel. An unlikely trio may team up for a DreamWorks Animated feature. John Carpenter returns to the director's chair with Amber Heard who will also join Johnny Depp in Rum Diary. Jennifer Lopez may be in another movie and that Judy Garland biopic may be quite good. Oh, and Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman are teaming for a new film and check out the casting on Mary, Mother of Christ, that could potentially be a decent little flick. Check out the full list and links are available if the film is in the database already. Enjoy! Title: Law Abiding Citizen
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- 2/6/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
British actress Sally Hawkins has signed on to star in "We Want Sex."
Written by Billy Ivory and directed by Simon Curtis, the flick focuses on the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant.
More than 800 women protested "against sexual discrimination in their job performance evaluations," according to Variety.
Resulting from the strike was a significant advancement in the women's rights movement, as well as equal pay for working women.
The trade also says Imelda Staunton is in talks to play Barbara Castle, employment secretary for Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Castle invited the strike committee to tea.
The title, which sounds indeed a bit provocative, is a reference to a protest banner that read "We Want Sex Equality."
Hawkins recently won a Golden Globe for her performance in "Happy-Go-Lucky." She also starred in "Cassandra's Dream."...
Written by Billy Ivory and directed by Simon Curtis, the flick focuses on the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant.
More than 800 women protested "against sexual discrimination in their job performance evaluations," according to Variety.
Resulting from the strike was a significant advancement in the women's rights movement, as well as equal pay for working women.
The trade also says Imelda Staunton is in talks to play Barbara Castle, employment secretary for Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Castle invited the strike committee to tea.
The title, which sounds indeed a bit provocative, is a reference to a protest banner that read "We Want Sex Equality."
Hawkins recently won a Golden Globe for her performance in "Happy-Go-Lucky." She also starred in "Cassandra's Dream."...
- 2/6/2009
- by Franck Tabouring
- screeninglog.com
Sally Hawkins will star in "We Want Sex," produced by Stephen Woolley and Liz Karlsen from Number 9 Films. Film follows the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant when 850 female workers left their jobs in protest after sexual descrimination in their job performance evaluations. This contributed to women receiving equal pay in the work place. During the strike, the committee was invited to tea by the employment secretary Barbara Castle and it was during that meeting where the issue was raised for equal pay. Imelda Staunton ("Nanny McPhee," "Vera Drake") is currently in talks to play Castle. So where does the title come from? It was a banner that the protestors carried during one march which said "We Want Sex Equality." Later, they realized that the last word was missing. Billy Ivory will write and Simon Curtis is directing. Sally Hawkins achieved recognition for her work in last year's...
- 2/5/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
"Happy-Go-Lucky" star Sally Hawkins wants sex for her next film. The 32-year-old actress is set to star in "We Want Sex," a light-hearted look at women's campaign for equal rights in the late '60s.
Based on real events, the film will chronicle the story of the 850 Dagenham Ford factory female workers in 1968, who went on strike because of sexual discrimination in the job evaluations. Their effort went on to encourage the women's rights movement and secure equal pay.
The strike committee were invited to have tea by Labor Employment Secretary Barbara Castle, where the women raised the issue of equal pay for the first time. Imelda Staunton, who played the repressing Dolores Umbridge in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," is in talks to play Castle.
The title refers to the famous banner carried by the strikers, which was supposed to read "We Want Sex Equality," but...
Based on real events, the film will chronicle the story of the 850 Dagenham Ford factory female workers in 1968, who went on strike because of sexual discrimination in the job evaluations. Their effort went on to encourage the women's rights movement and secure equal pay.
The strike committee were invited to have tea by Labor Employment Secretary Barbara Castle, where the women raised the issue of equal pay for the first time. Imelda Staunton, who played the repressing Dolores Umbridge in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," is in talks to play Castle.
The title refers to the famous banner carried by the strikers, which was supposed to read "We Want Sex Equality," but...
- 2/5/2009
- icelebz.com
Sally Hawkins will star in "We Want Sex," produced by Stephen Woolley and Liz Karlsen from Number 9 Films. Film follows the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant when 850 female workers left their jobs in protest after sexual descrimination in their job performance evaluations. This contributed to women receiving equal pay in the work place. During the strike, the committee was invited to tea by the employment secretary Barbara Castle and it was during...
- 2/5/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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