Releasing February 6, 2009
AWFJ highlights films made by and about women
Friday, February 6
- Blessed Is the Match: the Life and Death of Hannah Senesh – Balcony Releasing, 86 mins, limited in Los Angeles – Director Roberta Grossman’s brilliant documentary about Hannah Senesh, the young Israeli who risked her life to save Hungarian Jews from the Nazi death camps during World War II.
- Coraline – Focus Features, 100 mins – Henry Selick’s terrifying animated 3D feature focuses on a little girl (voiced Dakota Fanning) who walks a tightrope between reality where her parents pay no attention to her and a parallel fantasy world where her parents are doting but dowright deceitful and dangerous.
- Fanboys – The Weinstein Co., 90 mins, limited
- He’s Just Not That into You – New Line Cinema, 129 mins – Co-written by Abby Kohn
- Life. Support. Music – Merigold Moving Pictures, 79 mins, limited NY
- Pink Panther 2 – MGM/Columbia, 92 mins
- Push – Summit Entertainment, 111 mins