Films About Women Opening This Week
Number One Fan — Written and Directed by Jeanne Herry
Muriel Bayen (Sandrine Kiberlain), a divorced beautician and mother of two, loves to tell stories. She is a dedicated fan of singer Vincent Lacroix (Laurent Lafitte). Unexpectedly, one day Vincent knocks on her door and asks for her help. (Press materials)
Films About Women Currently Playing
Grandma
Learning to Drive — Directed by Isabel Coixet; Written by Sarah Kernochan
Queen of Earth
After Words
In the Game
Mistress America — Co-Written by Greta Gerwig
Ricki and the Flash — Written by Diablo Cody
The Diary of a Teenage Girl — Written and Directed by Marielle Heller
Phoenix
Trainwreck — Written by Amy Schumer
Tangerine
Amy (Documentary)
Inside Out
Spy
Testament of Youth
Tomorrowland
Mad Max: Fury Road
I’ll See You In My Dreams
Iris (Documentary)
Gemma Bovary — Directed by Anne Fontaine
Films Directed by Women Opening This Week
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Films Directed by Women Currently Playing
Top Spin (Documentary) — Directed by Sara Newens and Mina T. Son
The Park Bench — Directed and Written by Ann LeSchander
Rosenwald (Documentary) — Directed by Aviva Kempner
Slow Learners — Co-Directed by Sheena M. Joyce
Meru (Documentary) — Co-Directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelvi
The Lost Key (Documentary) — Co-Directed by Belen Orsini; Co-Written by Fernanda Rossi and Sonia Chocron
Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet — Co-Directed by Joan C. Gratz and Nina Paley
Infinitely Polar Bear — Directed and Written by Maya Forbes
The Wolfpack (Documentary) — Directed by Crystal Mosell
Films Written by Women Opening This Week
None
Films Written by Women Currently Playing
She’s Funny That Way — Co-Written by Louise Stratten
Straight Outta Compton — Co-Written by Andrea Berloff
Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation — Co-Written by Laeta Kalogridis
Terminator: Genisys — Co-Written by Laeta Kalogridis
Jurassic World — Co-Written by Amanda Silver
TV Premiering This Week
Mississippi Damned (Netflix) — Directed by Tina Mabry (September 1)
Wanting to escape was the easy part. “Mississippi Damned” is based on a true story that takes place from 1986–1988. Three poor black kids (Adam Clark, Malcolm Goodwin and Michael Hyatt) in rural Mississippi reap the consequences of their family’s cycle of abuse, addiction and violence. They independently struggle to escape their circumstances and must decide whether to confront what’s plagued their family for generations or succumb to the same crippling fate, forever damned in Mississippi. (Press materials)
American Masters — Althea (PBS) (September 4)
The 90-minute documentary reveals the highs and lows of this remarkable athlete, whose life and achievements transcend sports and have entered the annals of African American history. From her roots as a sharecropper’s daughter in the cotton fields of South Carolina, to her emergence as the unlikely queen of the highly segregated tennis world in the 1950s, Althea Gibson’s story is a complex tale of race, class and gender. (PBS)
VOD/DVD Releasing This Week
Bread and Butter — Written and Directed by Liz Manashil (VOD)
The Dempsey Sisters (VOD and DVD)
The Age of Adaline (DVD)
