Jeanne Dielman, 23,quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
“An astonishingly moving and radical achievement.... Jeanne Dielman has lost none of its power.”— Wall Street Journal The late Belgian-born director Chantal Akerman gained international acclaim in 1975...
View ArticleNorth Country
Based on a real-life incident, North Country stars Charlize Theron as a woman who finds work in a mine after leaving an abusive husband with her two kids in tow. There, deep in Minnesota’s Mesabi Iron...
View ArticleAliens
An early blockbuster from James Cameron (after Terminator but before Titanic ), the second installment of the Alien franchise is widely regarded as one of the great films of the horror/sci-fi genre. In...
View ArticleJe tu il elle, Born in Flames
Her first feature and arguably her most sexually daring, Je tu il elle stars Akerman as a young woman coping with a breakup alone in her apartment. Tired of her self-imposed isolation, the woman...
View ArticleFriday Foster, Coffy
A double dose of blaxploitation icon Pam Grier! In Friday Foster , Grier stars as a model-turned-photographer who gets too involved in even the most dangerous stories to which she is assigned. The film...
View ArticleThe Babadook
“The finest and most genuinely provocative horror movie to emerge in this still very-new century.”— RogerEbert.com Jennifer Kent’s directorial debut is an all-too-rare contemporary example of a horror...
View ArticleFire, Wildness
The first installment in Deepa Mehta’s “Elements Trilogy,” Fire follows Sita and Radha, two women who are unhappily married to a pair of brothers and business partners. As they emotionally gravitate to...
View ArticleWanda, Winter's Bone
One of the few American films directed by a woman to be theatrically released in the early 1970s, Barbara Loden’s Wanda offers an authentic, verité-style vision of middle America. A former model and...
View ArticleThe Bigamist, Dance, Girl, Dance
A double-bill of films by pioneering Hollywood directors! Actress-turned-director/producer Ida Lupino was the only woman working behind the camera in the Hollywood studio system of the 1950s. In The...
View ArticleI Will Follow
The first feature by Selma director Ava DuVernay, I Will Follow stars Salli Richardson-Whitfield as a woman who has spent the last year caring for an aunt (Beverly Todd) dying of cancer. Unfolding over...
View ArticleSpy, Haywire
Hilariously upending genre conventions every step of the way, Spy stars Melissa McCarthy as a desk-bound CIA worker who is thrown into field action after top agent Jude Law is killed. (120 mins., DCP)...
View ArticleJennifer Reeder The Devil Inside
Columbus-born filmmaker and feminist provocateur Jennifer Reeder made an indelible mark on the art world 20 years ago with The Devil Inside , featuring the ass-kicking feminist warrior White Trash...
View ArticleDara Birnbaum, Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman
A masterpiece of editing and a key work in the history of video art, Dara Birnbaum’s Technology/Transformation takes on the representation of women, power, and sexuality in mainstream media by...
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