Films About Women Opening This Weekend
Tiger Eyes
If you are a woman of my age, you grew up reading Judy Blume She was your touchstone. Now this weekend the first of her novels to make it to the big screen, Tiger Eyes, opens. Tiger Eyes tells the story of Davey (Willa Holland) a teen uprooted from her home in Atlantic City to Los Alamos after the death of her father. The movie explores the loss of a parent and how to regain your moorings after the rug is pulled out from under your feet and you no longer know how to stand up. I liked that the movie didn’t try to hard to be flashy or trendy. There are no kids texting or trashing each other. These are just kids dealing with life, and life as a teenager even without the baggage sucks. This is a movie any adult should be grateful for if they have a teen or tween in his or her life. It’s a movie that you can talk about. It’s a movie that provokes feelings. When I walked out I said to myself that is exactly the type of movie that I would expect to be made from a Judy Blume book. And that made me smile. (Melissa Silverstein)
Violet and Daisy
Two teenage assassins (Alexis Bledel and Saoirse Ronan) accept what they think will be a quick-and-easy job, until an unexpected target throws them off their plan. (IMDB)
As Cool As I Am- written by Virginia Korus Spragg
A smart teenage girl comes of age in a small town with her self-centered parents who had her when they were teenagers. (IMDB)
Films About Women Currently Playing
Hannah Arendt – Directed by Margarethe von Trotta
American Mary – Written and Directed by Jen Soska and Sylvia Soska
The East – Co-Written by Brit Marling
Shadow Dancer
Fill The Void – Written and Directed by Rama Burshstein
Black Rock – Directed by Katie Aselton
Frances Ha – Co-Written by Greta Gerwig
The English Teacher – Co-Written by Stacy Chariton
Augustine – Directed by Alice Winocour
Venus and Serena – Directed by Maiken Baird and Michelle Major (doc)
Stories We Tell – Directed by Sarah Polley (doc)
Kiss of the Damned – Written and Directed by Xan Cassavetes
What Maisie Knew – Co-Written by Nancy Doyne
Admission – Written by Karen Croner
The Call
Spring Breakers
Films Directed by Women Currently Playing
Peeples – Written and Directed by Tina Gordon Chism
Love Is All You Need – Directed by Susanne Bier
The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Directed by Mira Nair
No Place on Earth – Directed by Janet Tobias (doc)
Hava Naglia: The Movie – Directed by Roberta Grossman (doc)
Films Written by Women Currently Playing
Before Midnight – Co-Written by Julie Delpy
Arthur Newman – Written by Becky Johnston
Olympus Has Fallen – Co-Written by Katrin Benedikt
Emperor – Co-Written by Vera Blasi
Films By and About Women on DVD
Mosquita y Mari – Directed by Aurora Guerrero
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