AWFJ highlights films made by and about women:

Wednesday, November 18

• Red Cliff - Magnet Releasing, 148 mins., limited NY, opens wider November 25 - John Woo’s history epic features a great performances by actresses Wei Zhao as a heroic princess who refuses to let men do all the fighting in the battle to save the dynasty.

Friday, November 20

• The Twilight Saga: New Moon - Summit Entertainment, 130 mins. - The second installation in the ongoing vampire adventures, with screenplay penned by Melissa Rosenberg based on the best-selling novels of Stephenie Meyer
• The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans - First Look Studios, 121 mins, limited NY and LA, expands December 4
• The Blind Side - Warner Bros.
• Broken Embraces - Sony Pictures Classics, 127 mins., NY, releases LA December 11 - Pedro Amoldovar’s femme-centric film stars Penelope Cruz as a woman who’s caught between ambition born of necessity and her new found ability to love.
• Defamation - First Run Features, 91 mins.. limited NY, LA and San Francisco
• Fix - LAFCO, 93 mins., limited NY
• Mammoth - IFC Films, 125 mins., limited - An upscale NY family find their relationship with their live-in Filipino maid evolving, while the maid’s family in the Philippines struggles to deal with her absence.
• The Missing Person - Strand Releasing, 125 mins., limited NY
• Planet 51 - TriStar Pictures 3D
• That Evening Sun - Freestyle Releasing 110 mins., limited LA