Films About Women Opening
The Pretty One — Written and Directed by Jenee LaMarque
Zoe Kazan (Ruby Sparks) stars as a pair of identical twins in this pleasantly quirky dramedy. As much a sweet tale about learning to love oneself as it is a meditation on the malleability of femininity, The Pretty One centers on socially awkward Laurel, who impersonates her sister Audrey after the latter perishes in a car accident. (Inkoo Kang)
Vic + Flo Saw a Bear
Few who see Vic + Flo Saw a Bear will forget it. The lesbian couple at the heart of this brutal Canadian drama have two catastrophes heading their way: their slow-as-molasses break-up and a sudden burst of violence. In my Village Voice review, I call it an “exceptional French-language film [whose] strongest elements are borrowed from Greek tragedy. It’s an ominous, claustrophobic, unhappily sapphic work whose thunderclap of a climax instills terror and awe of the fates’ petty, whimsical cruelties.” (Inkoo Kang)
Nurse 3D
By day Abby Russell is a dedicated nurse, someone you wouldn’t hesitate to trust your life with. But by night, her real work begins — using her smoldering sexuality, she lures cheating men to their brutal deaths and exposes them for who they really are. When a younger nurse starts to suspect Abby’s actions and compromises her master plan, Abby must find a way to outsmart her long enough to bring the cheater you’d least expect to justice. (IMDB)
Vampire Academy
Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, half human/vampire, guardians of the Moroi, peaceful, mortal vampires living discretely within our world. Her legacy is to protect the Moroi from bloodthirsty, immortal Vampires, the Strigoi. This is her story. (IMDB)
Films By and About Women Currently Playing
The Square (doc) — Directed by Jehane Noujaim
Somewhere Slow
California Scheming
Best Night Ever
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
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
Gravity
Films Directed by Women Opening
Mars at Sunrise — Written and Directed by Jessica Habie
Mars at Sunrise is the story of a war waged on imagination. A painter’s resistance, courage and spirit can never be imprisoned in this highly stylized story of the conflict of two frustrated artists on either side of Israel’s militarized borders. Inspired by the creative journey of renowned Palestinian artist in exile Hani Zurob and on true stories and testimonies from the region, we witness expression, confinement, torture, jealousy, courage and freedom as both artists from each culture strive to paint a picture of life surrounded by conflict. (Press Material)
Films Directed by Women Currently Playing
Brightest Star — Written and Directed by Maggie Kiley
Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys (doc) — Directed by Jessica Orek
Films Written by Women Opening
A Field in England — Written by Amy Jump
Three soldiers who, fleeing from a Civil War, escape through an overgrown field and are ambushed by two dangerous men, who make them search the field for treasures. (IMDB)
Films Written by Women Currently Playing
Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage — Co-Written by Evelyn Gabai
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
A Case of You — Directed by Kat Cairo
How I Live Now — Co-Written by Penelope Skinner
The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (doc) — Directed by Sophie Fiennes
