Reel Women

03/08/2025

Because people have asked, and March is Women's History Month. Here is the list:
Films Reel Women presented at Gail Borden from September, 2008 to Feb. 2020

2008
Sept: Real Women Have Curves
Oct: God Said ‘Ha!'
Nov: Away from Her

2009
Jan: The Duchess
Feb: Dreamgirls *
March: Frida *
April: North Country *
May: The Queen *
Sept: A Class Apart (Special)
Oct: A Powerful Noise (?)
Nov: Revolutionary Road *

2010
Jan: Julie & Julia *
Feb: Not Easily Broken *
March: Magdalene Sisters *
April: My Sister’s Keeper *
May: Precious *
June: The Blind Side *
July: The Prize-Winner of Defiance, Ohio*
Aug: The Young Victoria *
Sept: In the Time of the Butterflies *
Oct: The Painted Veil *
Nov: White Oleander *

2011
Jan: Mrs. Brown *
Feb: Breakfast at Tiffany’s *
March: Winter’s Bone *
April: Eat, Pray, Love *
May: Rabbit Hole *
June: House of Sand and Fog *
July: Fair Game *
Aug.: The Whales of August *
Sept: Pan's Labyrinth *
Oct: Soul Surfer *
Nov: Black Swan +

2012
Jan: The Help (special)
Feb: Down in the Delta *
March: Conviction +
April: Sarah’s Key (Special)
May: Upside of Anger *
June: An Education +
July: Easy A *
Aug: Martha Marcy May Marlene +
Sept: Made in LA (Special)
Oct: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane *
Nov: The Invisible War (Special)

2013
Jan: Heartburn *
Feb: Cancelled due to blizzard
March: Anna Karenina *
April: Half the Sky (Special)
May: Albert Nobbs *
June: Silver Linings Playbook (special)
July: Zero Dark 30
Aug: The Impossible (50th film) *
Sept: A Separation *
Oct: Stories We Tell *
Nov: Much Ado About Nothing *

2014
Jan: (cancelled due to weather)
Feb: Free Angela and All Political Prisoners*
March: Blue Jasmine +
April: Gravity*
May: Philomena (special)
June: Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore *
July: Saving Mr. Banks
Aug: August: Osage County
Sept: Gloria*
Oct: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Nov: To Have and Have Not*

2015
Jan: Gone Girl
Feb: 12 Years a Slave
March: Belle
April: Wild
May: Still Alice
June: Big Eyes
July: Into The Woods
August: Enough Said
Sept: Woman in Gold
Oct: Paycheck to Paycheck
Nov: Mad Max: Fury Road

2016
Jan: Beasts of the Southern Wild
Feb: Selma
March: Far from the Madding Crowd
April: Brooklyn
May: Room
June: Carol
July: The Lady in the Van
August: The Danish Girl
September: Joy
October: The Witch
Nov: Ghostbusters (2016) Cancelled

LAST time we did a November movie

2017
Jan: The Girl on the Train
Feb: The Queen of Katwe
March: Loving
April: Postcards from the Edge
May: Hidden Figures
June: Florence Foster Jenkins
July: The Zookeeper's Wife
August: The Salesman
September: Sunset Blvd.
October: Wonder Woman’

2018
January: Glass Castle
February: Battle of the Sexes
March: Victoria and Abdul
April: Lady Bird
May: Served like a Girl
June: The Post
July: All the Money in the World
August: A Fantastic Woman
Sept: (10 years) September: Tully
October: RBG (SPECIAL)

2019:
January: Cancelled for weather
February: A Star is Born (2018)
March: Can You Ever Forgive Me?
April: Mary Queen of Scots
May: The Wife
June: If Beale Street Could Talk
July: A Private War
August: Widows
Sept: Mother and Child (I think)
Oct: Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (I think)

2020
116: January: The Farewell
117: February: Harriet

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12/05/2022

https://apple.news/Af8U4VKOcQDK0smgCNlJOwA

I see myself going to see some movies

"She Said," "Tár" and "Women Talking" exemplify the challenges of dramatizing a moment and a movement we’re still living through.

11/25/2022

A-freaking-(wo)men

He sounds like an aging crank yelling at the kids to get off his grass. It also makes him sound like he's yelling at women to get off his screens.

02/25/2022

This article both makes me very mad, yet a little relieved. That . That we can find more women-centric movies. That films should not just pass the Betchel Test, but actually give women names, roles, and power.

I don't want to hear "Well, times have changed." These men knew exactly what they were doing. They were abusing women for their own egos. They didn't care.

Women first interviewed by the directors behind ‘Allen v. Farrow’ say the comedy icon sexually harassed—and in at least one case, sexually assaulted—them with impunity. A special collaboration, including a mini doc, between ‘V.F.’ and the filmmakers.

05/26/2020

Due to Coronavirus, and an abundance of caution, we are putting Reel Women on hiatus. Likely until Summer 2021. If there is an interest in doing something virtually, like watching online and then getting together to discuss, please let us know. But for now, we feel this is the safest option for our fans.

03/12/2020

Heads up: as Gail Borden has cancelled all programs for March, we will reschedule our March film, Judy, for a later date. (Not Liza. Sorry, too tired).

02/19/2020

The Elgin Green Expo is back and it is not too late to sponsor Expo. There are still a handful of tables available for this event, set for April 4 at the Centre of Elgin. Several thousand area residents attended this event in the past and we are expecting a great turnout again. Contact [email protected] or visit www.cityofelgin.org/earthmonth for a copy of the sponsorship/exhibitor letter and agreement.

01/30/2020

The festival’s lineup may be approaching gender parity, but in the films themselves women still struggle—even Taylor Swift.

01/29/2020

https://apple.news/Aqe9BHHJoSVSj9qz4FpPV-g

Hope to see this available for Reel Women in the next year!

Director Kitty Green on how she made the first great movie of the Me Too era.