Jane Collective: Last News

Shortly after Donald Trump became president of the United States in January 2017, he began stacking federal courts with conservative judges. Realizing what was at stake, the team behind HBO Documentary Films’ abortion documentary The Janes began crafting a story to remind the audience what happened 50 years ago when women didn’t have access to safe and legal abortions.

Three-time Emmy nominee Elizabeth Banks brought the late eighties/early nineties glam to the Los Angeles premiere of Call Jane, which was held inside the Skirball Cultural Center on Thursday.The Massachusetts-born 48-year-old looked elegant in a strapless black cocktail dress, featuring a thigh-high slit, with matching opera gloves and pumps selected by styling duo Wendi & Nicole Ferreira.Banks (born Mitchell) finished off her retro look with side-parted blonde waves, disco ball-style earrings, and a bright red pout. Turning heads: Three-time Emmy nominee Elizabeth Banks brought the late eighties/early nineties glam to the Los Angeles premiere of Call Jane, which was held inside the Skirball Cultural Center on ThursdayElizabeth stars as 1968-era Chicago housewife Joy, whose life-saving abortion introduces her to an underground feminist group called the Jane Collective, in Phyllis Nagy's drama hitting US theaters October 28 and UK theaters November 4.'I really hope that when people watch this film it opens up their sense of empathy for a road that they might never have to travel, but have a little less judgment for those who do,' the Press Your Luck host said on the red carpet.

Guy Lodge Film CriticThe fashions, fabrics and eye-crossingly patterned wallpapers of the 1970s abound in “Angry Annie,” a French period piece practically painted in avocado green and Le Creuset orange, with hand-crocheted accessories for good measure. Would that the rest of Blandine Lenoir’s rousing abortion drama felt quite so dated.

Addie Morfoot ContributorFollowing Doc10 Film Festival’s opening night screening of “The Janes” on May 19, several original members The Jane Collective — an underground abortion clinic led by women in the pre-Roe v. Wade era — urged audience members to take to the streets and get focused on protecting women’s reproductive rights, now believed to be at risk with a new Supreme Court ruling in the works.“The fight is not over,” said Marie Leaner, a former Jane. “It’s only just begun.”“The Janes” is one of 10 docus that will screen during the four-day Chicago-based festival.

Addie Morfoot ContributorTia Lessin and Emma Pildes were devastated to learn that the Supreme Court may soon overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling legalizing abortion.