Films About Women Opening This Weekend
The To Do List – Written and Directed by Maggie Carey
The teen sex comedy is a staple subgenre of teen films. Porky’s, Revenge of the Nerds and American Pie are just some of the films that
have brought sex puns and now grossly iconic uses of apple pie into pop culture. However it is genre that rarely, if ever, stars women. The teen sex comedy
has a predominately male focus–usually a plain Jim everyman (he’s not bad looking but not someone you’d lose focus in Algebra over) who is desperate to
toss away his virginity at the hottest female specimen he can find. Many times, he loses it to the girl who has “been there all along” usually behind a
pair of glasses. Read more. (Kerensa
Cadenas)
Breaking the Girls – Directed by Jamie Babbit, written by Guinevere Turner and Mark Distefano
Directed by beloved cult filmmaker Jamie Babbit and written by Guinevere Turner and Mark Distefano, Breaking the Girls is a thriller revolving
around a dangerous pact between sexy twentysomethings Sara (Agnes Bruckner) and Alex (Madeline Zima). When Sara meets Alex at a bar one night, an intense
relationship immediately forms between them and quickly goes to a dark place. Each of the girls discovers an urge to rid themselves of a special enemy and their furtive plotting and sexual relationship quickly escalates to a tangled web of violence and lies. (From the Press Materials)
Blue Jasmine
After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal (Alec Baldwin), elegant New York socialite Jasmine (Cate
Blanchett) moves into her sister Ginger’s (Sally Hawkins) modest apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again. (Indiewire)
First Comes Love -Directed by Nina Davenport (doc)
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in the baby carriage. For filmmaker Nina Davenport, that old playground song didn’t go as planned.
Single at age forty-one, she decides to have a baby on her own, never minding the odds stacked against her or the extra hurdles of living in New York City.
Filming the whole process, she excels at candour and comedy. Think of a real-life Girls, only with more grown-up problems. (From Official Site)
Films About Women Currently Playing
Girl Most Likely – Directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, written by Michelle Morgan
The Hot Flashes – Directed by Susan Seidelman
The Heat
– Written by Katie Dippold
The Bling Ring – written and directed by Sofia Coppola
The Wall
Hannah Arendt
– Directed by Margarethe von Trotta
The East – Co-Written by Brit Marling
Shadow Dancer
Fill The Void
– Written and Directed by Rama Burshstein
Frances Ha – Co-Written by Greta Gerwig
Augustine – Directed by Alice Winocour
Stories We Tell – Directed by Sarah Polley (doc)
What Maisie Knew – Co-Written by Nancy Doyne
Films Directed by Women Currently Playing
Blackfish – Directed by Gabriela Coperthwaite (doc)
The Guide – Directed by Jessica Yu (doc)
Love Is All You Need – Directed by Susanne Bier
No Place on Earth – Directed by Janet Tobias (doc)
Films Written by Women Currently Playing
Before Midnight – Co-Written by Julie Delpy
Films By and About Women on DVD/And Or On Demand
Ginger and Rosa – Written and Directed by Sally Potter
Set in 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, best friends Ginger and Rosa are inseparable in that way only teen girls can be. They bathe together,
languishly smoke cigarettes, furiously make out with boys in darkened alleyways and even wear matching outfits. The film follows the pair throughout their
day to day lives, giving us the inevitable feeling that growing up, especially in such a turbulent time, will wreak havoc on the two. This kind of
obsessive female love is always the most devastating when it falls apart.
Kiss of the Damned – Xan Cassavetes
If you are a fan of horror films, especially not the torture porn crap of late, you’ll love Xan Cassavetes’ Kiss of the Damned. It is the story of Djuna
(Josephine de La Baume) a vampire who lives alone in a sprawling mansion outside New York City. When Djuna meets sexy screenwriter Paolo (Milo Ventimiglia)
their chemistry is automatic. She turns him quickly as they settle into eternal domestic bliss. This is upended with the arrival of Djuna’s younger and
crazy sister Mimi (Roxane Mesquida) who threatens both Djuna’s new relationship and the entire vampire community with her insane antics.
