Films About Women Opening This Weekend
Wadjda – Haifaa Al-Mansour
What Wadjda (Waad Mohammed) wants to do is simple – ride a bike. That shouldn’t be so difficult, but when you live in Saudia Arabia, a place where women
can’t drive, a girl riding a bike in the street is not allowed. What Haifaa Al-Mansour has done by being the first director to shoot a film in Saudia
Arabia – male or female – is give us a movie that is fundamentally radical in a very accessible way. (PS Ms. Al-Monsour being a woman, was not allowed to
venture out onto the street to direct her cast so she directed from a van.) Wadjda is on the cusp of growing up and as she enters puberty there are lots of
rules that start to kick in. Read more.
(Melissa Silverstein)
And While We Were Here – Written and Directed by Kat Coiro
While working on a writing project on the island of Ischia, a married woman (Kate Bosworth) enters into an affair with a younger man. Read guest post from
director Kat Coiro
Plush – Catherine Hardwicke
A young singer/songwriter (Emily Browning), despite being married, becomes involved with her new guitarist, who she soon discovers has a dark past and may
be a danger to her and those close to her. (IMDB)
Mademoiselle C (doc)
A documentary focused on former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief and fashion stylist Carine Roitfeld. (IMDB)
Mother of George – written by Darci Picoult
Andrew Dosunmu’s Mother of George, written by Darci Picoult, tells the story of a woman Adenike (Danai Gurira) a woman who marries in a
traditional African ceremony where she is re-named for her still to be born son George. The problem is the Adenike cannot get preganant, and quickly this
becomes a very big problem because her only job is to produce George. It’s always hard to watch a film where a woman has no other purpose in life except to
have kids, but politics aside, this was a very original and interesting film. Dosunmu vibrantly presents a rich African culture that begins with a wedding
the like I have never seen on the screen before. The colors jump off the screen, yet at the same time you see Adenike’s world becoming smaller and smaller
as she becomes more and more desperate to get pregnant. Danai Guria is curerntly on The Walking Dead and she is beyond terrific in this film. She
brings to life an African woman living in NY trying to do what she was taught to do which is to be a mother. The subject of infertility has never been told
this way before on film. (Melissa Silverstein- from Sundance)
Films About Women Currently Playing
Touchy Feely – Written and Directed by Lynn Shelton
Adore – Directed by Anne Fontaine
A Teacher – Written and Directed by Hannah Fidell
Best Kept Secret – Directed by Samantha Buck (doc)
Winnie Mandela
Populaire
Afternoon Delight – Written and Directed by Jill Soloway
Passion
Therese
The Mortal Intruments: City of Bones – Written by Jessica Postigo
In A World…
– Written and Directed by Lake Bell
Blue Jasmine
Girl Most Likely – Directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, written by Michelle Morgan
The Heat
– Written by Katie Dippold
20 Feet From Stardom
Hannah Arendt
– Directed by Margarethe von Trotta
Fill The Void
– Written and Directed by Rama Burshstein
Frances Ha – Co-Written by Greta Gerwig
Films Directed by Women Opening This Weekend
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction – Sophie Huber (doc)
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction is an impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his 200 films
and his own heart-breaking renditions of American folk songs. Lensed in color and black and white by Seamus McGarvey, the film explores the actor’s
enigmatic outlook on his life, his unexploited talents as a musician, and includes candid reminiscences by David Lynch, Wim Wenders, Sam Shepard, Kris
Kristofferson and Deborah Harry. (Press Materials)
Herb and Dorothy 50×50 – Megumi Sasaki (doc)
A follow up to award winning documentary Herb & Dorothy, the film captures the ordinary couple’s extraordinary gift of art to the nation as they close
the door on their life as collectors. When Herb and Dorothy Vogel, a retired postal clerk and librarian, began collecting works of contemporary art in the
1960s, they never imagined it would outgrow their one bedroom Manhattan apartment and spread throughout America. 50 years later, the collection is nearly
5,000 pieces and worth millions. Refusing to sell, the couple launches an unprecedented gift project giving artworks to one museum in all 50 states. The
film journeys around the country with the Vogels, meeting artists who are famous or unknown, often controversial, striking today’s society with questions
about art and its survival. (IMDB)
Films Directed by Women Currently Playing
99% The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film – Directed by Audrey Ewell, Aaron Aites, Lucian Read, Nina Krstic (doc)
Out of the Clear Blue Sky – Directed by Danielle Gardner (doc)
I Am Breathing – Directed by Emma Davie and Morag McKinnon (doc)
Una Noche – Written and Directed by Lucy Mulloy
Our Nixon – Directed by Penny Lane (doc)
Blackfish – Directed by Gabriela Coperthwaite (doc)
Love Is All You Need – Directed by Susanne Bier
Films Written by Women Currently Playing
Before Midnight – Co-Written by Julie Delpy
Films By and About Women on DVD/And Or On Demand
Three Worlds – directed by Catherine Corsini
Peeples – directed by Tina Gordon Chism
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