Films About Women Opening This Weekend
Fill The Void – Written and Directed by Rama Burshtein
I saw Fill the Void back in September at the Toronto Film Festival. It’s been making its way around the country on the film festival circuit before opening in limited release this weekend.
It is the story of Shira a very devout Hasidic girl in Israel who is arriving at the point of her life where she will be set up to be married. This is a community where people are put together by a matchmaker. They have a couple of chaste meetings (if they are lucky) and then a decision is made if they are compatible. This is not about love. This is about having babies and continuing the Jewish people. This is exactly what Shira dreams of doing. She dreams of doing this because this is what she knows, this is what she is told and this is what is expected of her. Read more…
Films About Women Currently Playing
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
Please Kill Mr. Know It All – Co-Directed by Sandra Feldman
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
Caroline and Jackie
Sun Don’t Shine
Filly Brown
The Host
Admission – Written by Karen Croner
Ginger and Rosa – Written and Directed by Sally Potter
The Call
Spring Breakers
Lore – Directed by Cate Shortland
Films Directed by Women Currently Playing
Peeples – Written and Directed by Tina Gordon Chism
Love Is All You Need – Directed by Susanne Bier
The Source Family – Directed by Maria Demopoulous and Jodie Wille (doc)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Directed by Mira Nair
Midnight’s Children – Directed by Deepa Mehta
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay – Directed by Molly Bernstein and Alan Edelstein
No Place on Earth – Directed by Janet Tobias (doc)
Hava Naglia: The Movie – Directed by Roberta Grossman (doc)
Films Written by Women Opening This Weekend
Before Midnight – Co-Written by Julie Delpy
Co-Written and starring Julie Delpy, Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight continues the story of Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Delpy) that began in 1995’s Before Sunrise and 2004’s Before Sunset. Close to twenty years ago, the star-crossed pair met on a train to Vienna and spent a day together aimlessly wandering–talking about love, sex, philosophy, politics–having those long meandering conversations that begin romantic relationships and making promises that aren’t always easy to keep.
The next chapter in Jesse and Celine’s story picks up from those promises and where life takes you when they aren’t met. In Linklater’s latest installment, we meet Jesse and Celine in their early 40s (their status is introduced minutes into the film) and Before Midnight takes the romantic realism of the first two films and further evolves it. We get the same meandering, bickering conversations that have evolved as Jesse and Celine have. And as always it is equal parts swoonily romantic, at times unbearably realistic and one of the most touching films you’ll see this year. (Kerensa Cadenas)
Films Written by Women Currently Playing
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/On Demand
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