Films About Women Opening
Adult World
Adult World is a satirical comedy about an eccentric young woman, Amy Anderson (Emma Roberts), who has just come out of university convinced she’s going to be a famous poet. Unemployed and saddled with debt, she moves back in with her parents, who force her to get a job. Desperate and armed with a poetry degree and not much else, she takes the only job she can find, working in an adult book store called Adult World. Meanwhile, desperate to get her poems published, Amy stalks an aging punk poet figure named Rat Billings (John Cusack), “one of the greatest poets of the early 90s.” Rat reluctantly agrees to mentor her. As Amy makes new friends, including a drag queen named Rubia, the elderly couple who own Adult World, and Alex, the charming and quirky young manager, she learns that she might not be the voice of her generation after all. (Rotten Tomatoes)
Child’s Pose
A sharply crafted family thriller, Child’s Pose pivots on a riveting performance by Luminita Gheorghiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Beyond the Hills) as a steely, upper-class Bucharest architect determined to keep her thirty-something deadbeat son out of jail after a deadly car crash. How far will she go to convince the police, eyewitnesses and even the victim’s family that her son was not recklessly speeding? A spellbinding drama of social commentary and psychological realism, this caustic look into the corrupt heart of the Eastern European bourgeoisie twists into a brilliantly ambiguous study of obsessive motherly love. (Rotten Tomatoes)
Films By and About Women Currently Playing
Vampire Academy
Nurse 3D
Vic + Flo Saw a Bear
The Pretty One — Written and Directed by Jenee LaMarque
The Square (doc) — Directed by Jehane Noujaim
Gimme Shelter
Gloria
Mercedes Sosa: The Voice of Latin America (doc)
Maidentrip (doc) — Directed by Jillian Schlesinger; Written by Laura Dekker, Penelope Falk, Jillian Schlesinger
August: Osage County
The Invisible Woman — Written by Abi Morgan
Saving Mr. Banks — Written by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith
Frozen — Co-Written and Co-Directed by Jennifer Lee
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The Book Thief
Blue is the Warmest Color
Gravity
Blue Jasmine
Films Directed by Women Opening
Endless Love — Co-Written and Directed by Shana Feste
Director Shana Feste (Country Strong, The Greatest) helms the first woman-directed wide release of the year. In this teen romance timed for Valentine’s Day, a rich girl and a poor boy are kept apart by her troubled dad. In my review for TheWrap.com, I noted that “[Alex] Pettyfer delivers the puppy eyes, [while Gabriella] Wilde keepsEndless Love from drowning in a vat of schmaltz.” (Inkoo Kang)
Films Directed by Women Currently Playing
Mars at Sunrise — Written and Directed by Jessica Habie
Films Written by Women Opening
About Last Night — Co-Written by Leslye Headland
New love for two couples as they journey from the bar to the bedroom and are eventually put to the test in the real world. (IMDB)
Easy Money: Hard to Kill — Written by Maria Karlsson
Though he’s currently headlining the new Robocop remake, Swedish star Joel Kinnaman got his big break in the thriller Easy Money, an interlocking drama that shows the invisible but destructive relationship between low-level drug dealers and the aristocratic banksters who profit off their blood money. In my Los Angeles Times review, I noted that its sequel “forges new ground on the rich character histories developed in the first film, [but] they feel like a random trio assigned the same punishment whose lives eventually intersect — and as such, the emotional moments never land.” (Inkoo Kang)
Jimmy P. — Co-Written by Julie Peyr
A Native American Veteran suffering from a series of psychological issues develops a deeply powerful friendship with his progressive French psychoanalyst as they discover and attempt to understand the source of his illness. (IMDB)
Films Written by Women Currently Playing
A Field in England — Written by Amy Jump
Devil’s Due — Written by Lindsay Devlin
The Hobbit — The Desolation of Smaug — Co-Written by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens
Films By and About Women on DVD/And Or On Demand
Afternoon Delight — Written and Directed by Jill Soloway
Austenland — Written by Jerusha Hess and Shannon Hale, Directed by Jerusha Hess
Diana
Grace Unplugged
Homegoings (doc) — Directed by Christine Turner
In Montauk — Written and Directed by Kim Cummings
