AWFJ highlights films made by and about women:

Friday, August 19

• Bandslam - Summit Entertainment, 111 mins. - Teenage girls in a rising rock band battle the boys.
• District 9 - Sony Pictures, 111 mins.
• The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard - Paramount Vantage, 89 mins.
• Grace - Anchor Bay, 85 mins, limited NY, LA - a horror drama about birthing
• It Might Get Loud - Sony Pictures, 97 mins., limited
• Ponyo - Walt Disney Pictures, 101 mins. - Hayao Miyazaki’s animated feature, based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Little Mermaid.,“ focuses on a girl goldfish, named Ponyo, who wants to become human. Fab female voices include Cate Blanchett, Tina Fey, Cloris Leachman, Lily Tomlin and Betty White.
• The Time Traveler’s Wife - New Line Cinema, 108 mins. - Rachel McAdams as the unfortunate wife who loyally and lovingly stands by her time-traveling man.
• I Sell the Dead - IFC, 85 mins.
• Spread - Anchor Bay, 97 mins.
• Mein Fuhrer - First Run Features, 89 mins.
• Taxidermia - Regent Releasing, 91 mins.
• Earth Days - Zeitgeist, 100 mins - Rachel Carson and other women conservationists are pivotal characters in Robert Stone’s documentary about the early days of the environmental movement.
• The Pool Boys - Seven Arts Pictures, 89 mins.
• Cloud 9 (Wolke Neun) - Music Box Films, 98 mins - In this German feature, a middle aged woman must choose between her husband of 30 years and a new paramour who’s renewed romance and excitement in her life.