Entertainment Weekly released its annual Fall Preview issue and so we thought it was time to do an overview of the women directed and women centric movies coming out over the next several months. The early part of fall looks very promising with a bunch of films coming off the festival circuit — like Concussion, Wadjda and After Tiller — that will be released in theatres and VOD.
We are very much looking forward to Nicole Holofcener’s latest film Enough Said with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfini. While this is still clearly an indie, this feels like a bigger film and more high profile for Holofcener. Another important release is Black Nativity from Kasi Lemmons.
You will note that as more “Oscar hopefuls” roll out later in the year, the amount of women directed films diminishes, in fact we currently have no women directed films slated to open in December.
On the women centric front we will get the second installment of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and the latest from Meryl Streep, August: Osage County where she plays mother to Julia Roberts as well as films from Judi Dench and Emma Thompson.
September:
Women Directed:
Touchy Feely – Lynn Shelton – September 6
Adore – Anne Fontaine – September 6
A Teacher – Hannah Fidell – September 6
Wadjda – Haifaa Al-Mansour – September 13
Plush – Catherine Hardwicke – September 13
Enough Said – Nicole Holofcener – September 20
After Tiller – Martha Shane and Lana Wilson – September 20 (doc)
Women Centric:
Populaire – September 6
Winnie Mandela – September 6
Mademoiselle C – September 11 (doc)
Mother of George – September 13
Haute Cuisine – September 20
Baggage Claim – September 27
October:
Women Directed:
Concussion – Stacie Passon – October 4
Carrie – Kimberly Peirce – October 18
Paradise – Diablo Cody – October 18
Women Centric:
Gravity – October 4
Grace Unplugged – October 4
Camille Claudel 1915 – October 16
Blue is the Warmest Color – October 25
Diana – TBA
November:
Women Directed:
Black Nativity – Kasi Lemmons – November 27
Frozen – Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck – November 27
Women Centric:
How I Live Now – November 8
The Book Thief – November 15
Effie Gray – November 20
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – November 22
Grace of Monaco – November 27
December:
Women Centric:
Twice Born – December 6
Saving Mr. Banks – December 13
The Past – December 20
Philomena – TBA
The Invisible Woman – December 25
August: Osage County – December 25
