No wide women-centric releases this week, but Sunshine Cleaning continues to roll out across the country. (Disclaimer: I worked on outreach to women for the film) New locations include: Omaha; Grand Rapids; Lansing; Flint; Kalamazoo; Richmond; Norfolk; Albany; Buffalo; Rochester; Syracuse; Columbus; Cincinnati; Dayton; Louisville; Nashville; Knoxville; Memphis; Little Rock; and New Orleans. Read my review. Info on theatres and times.
Opening this week in NY at the Cinema Village (next week in LA) is FORBIDDEN LIE$, a documentary by Anna Broinowski. I haven’t been able to watch the film yet, but it looks fascinating.
Here is a description from the press materials: In July 2004, Norma Khouri, best-selling author of “Forbidden Love” (US title “Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan”), was exposed as a fake. In Australia, she’d won fame and fortune as a Jordanian virgin on the run from Islamic extremists who’d put a Fatwah on her head for her campaign against honor killings. But she was really Norma Bagain, a Chicago real estate agent and mother of two, on the run from the FBI for one million dollars of fraud. Director Anna Broinowski wanted to know “what kind of woman could be so brilliant that while on the run from the FBI she could reinvent herself as a Jordanian virgin with a Fatwah on her head, write a best-seller, and convince the best publishing and media minds in the world that she was telling the truth.”
UPDATE: I spaced and forgot to add the LA Opening of the great documentary Who Does She Think She Is. Here’s my review.
Films Currently in Theatres
Sunshine Cleaning
Duplicity
Everlasting Moments (limited release)
Coraline
Last Chance Harvey
Wendy and Lucy
The Reader
Doubt
Women Directed Films
Anna Boden who rose to prominence with Half-Nelson is back again partnered with Ryan Fleck is the baseball film, Sugar. It’s the story of a young Dominican pitcher and his attempt to make it in the big leagues. Boden not only is the director, she is the executive producer, writer and editor.
Adventureland, which has Kirsten Stewart, close enough, I guess.
Thanks for making me aware of Sunshine Cleaning! I saw it this weekend and absolutely loved it. It’s so refreshing to watch three-dimensional women characters with realistic relationships and complex lives. My husband loved it as well!
I finally saw Last Chance Harvey. It was so nice to see an older couple as the leads.