In celebration of International Women’s Day next month, Hollywood Suite announced its March programming lineup will showcase films featuring women in front of and behind the camera.
The lineup includes the exclusive Canadian broadcast premieres of Shiori Itô’s Academy Award-nominated documentary Black Box Diaries (2024), in which she investigates her own sexual assault and exposes Japan’s outdated judicial and societal systems in a landmark case, premiering March 1 at 7:15 p.m. ET; the seven-episode Canadian musical comedy series Less Than Kosher (2023), co-written by and starring Shaina Silver-Baird (The Communist’s Daughter), premiering March 11 at 9 p.m. ET; and director Valerie Buhagiar’s award-winning Canadian thriller The Dogs (2024), starring Kathleen Munroe (Law and Order Toronto: Criminal Intent), Donovan Colan (Theater Camp) and Kris Holden-Ried (The Umbrella Academy), premiering March 26 at 9 p.m. ET. All three titles will be available on Hollywood Suite On Demand on March 1.
To mark International Women’s Day on March 8, Hollywood Suite will turn its primetime programming over to four Canadian women in film, who will showcase movies that excite and inspire them. Guest curator Silver-Baird’s movie selections that day will include Legally Blonde (2001), La La Land (2016) and Booksmart (2019); Buhagiar’s picks will include Don’t Look Now (1973), The Omen (1976) and The Deer Hunter (1978); Poly is the New Monogamy writer-director and actress Cat Hostick’s selections will include Liar Liar (1997), Run Lola Run (1998) and 10 Things I Hate About You (1999); and Guess Who star Keeya King’s picks will include 9 to 5 (1980), Dirty Dancing (1987) and Beaches (1988).
Hollywood Suite will also be celebrating the 75th anniversary of All About Eve (1950), with scheduled airings on March 22 at 9 p.m. ET and on March 23 at 7:10 a.m. ET and 1:30 p.m. ET. This six-time Oscar-winning classic film stars Anne Baxter as Eve Harrington, who manoeuvres herself from fan to leading lady, and Bette Davis as Margo Channing, the aging Broadway mega-star standing in Eve’s way. Davis’s role solidified her as a Golden Age star who refused to be brushed out of the spotlight, no matter her age. The film includes an early performance by legendary actress Marilyn Monroe.
Additional Hollywood Suite programming highlighting women in film this March includes:
- Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
- First Comes Courage (1943)
- Daisies (1966)
- The Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)
- It’s My Turn (1980)
- Real Genius (1985)
- Smooth Talk (1985)
- A Dry White Season (1989)
- Look Who’s Talking (1989)
- Awakenings (1990)
- Look Who’s Talking Too (1990)
- Mississippi Masala (1991)
- Stepping Out (1991)
- The Prince of Tides (1991)
- Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
- The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
- The Watermelon Woman (1996)
- Dance With Me (1998)
- The Matrix (1999)
- American Psycho (2000)
- Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)
- The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
- The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
- The Holiday (2006)
- Old Joy (2006)
- Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
- Jennifer’s Body (2009)
- Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)
- Carrie (2013)
- The Intern (2015)
- Certain Women (2016)
- Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)
- The Beguiled (2017)
- Late Night (2019)
- The Short History of the Long Road (2019)
- Marvelous and the Black Hole (2021)
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