Most Anticipated Films Of 2014: Woman made or at least based on a novel written by a woman...
Movies from IndieWire's 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2014 list that are directed, written, shot, or edited by women. or based on a book written by a woman. Of the first 50 IndieWire's listed I culled these 15 films.
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- DirectorShira PivenStarsKristen WiigJames MarsdenLinda CardelliniWhen Alice Klieg wins the Mega-Millions lottery, she immediately quits her psychiatric meds and buys her own talk show.Director: Shira Piven
- DirectorPhillip NoyceStarsBrenton ThwaitesJeff BridgesMeryl StreepIn a seemingly perfect community without war, pain, suffering, differences or choices, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man, the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.Man made film, but based on Lois Lowry's novel. Editors unlisted.
- DirectorGilles Paquet-BrennerStarsCharlize TheronNicholas HoultChristina HendricksLibby Day was only eight years old when her family was brutally murdered in their rural Kansas farmhouse. Almost thirty years later, she reluctantly agrees to revisit the crime and uncovers the wrenching truths that led up to that tragic night.Man made film, but based on Gillian Flynn's novel.
- DirectorLana WachowskiLilly WachowskiStarsChanning TatumMila KunisEddie RedmayneA young woman discovers her destiny as an heiress of intergalactic nobility and must fight to protect the inhabitants of Earth from an ancient and destructive industry.Directors/Writers: Andy Wachowski & Lana Wachowski
- DirectorHossein AminiStarsViggo MortensenKirsten DunstOscar IsaacA thriller centered on a con artist, his wife, and a stranger who flee Athens after one of them is caught up in the death of a private detective.Man made film, but based on Patricia Highsmith's novel.
- DirectorGraham AnnableAnthony StacchiStarsBen KingsleyJared HarrisNick FrostA young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator.Writers: Irena Brignull (screenplay), Adam Pava, based on Alan Snow's novel
Cinematography? Editing? - DirectorDean DeBloisStarsJay BaruchelCate BlanchettGerard ButlerWhen Hiccup and Toothless discover an ice cave that is home to hundreds of new wild dragons and the mysterious Dragon Rider, the two friends find themselves at the center of a battle to protect the peace.Man made film, but based on Cressida Cowell's novel
- DirectorSaul DibbStarsMichelle WilliamsKristin Scott ThomasMargot RobbieDuring the early years of German occupation of France in World War II, romance blooms between Lucile Angellier (Michelle Williams), a French villager, and Lieutenant Bruno von Falk (Matthias Schoenaerts), a German soldier.Man made film, but based on Irène Némirovsky's novel
- DirectorBryan SingerStarsPatrick StewartIan McKellenHugh JackmanThe X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.Writers: SCREENPLAY: Simon Kinberg, STORY: Simon Kinberg, Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman
- DirectorPeter JacksonStarsIan McKellenMartin FreemanRichard ArmitageBilbo Baggins and company are forced to engage in a war against an array of combatants and keep the Lonely Mountain from falling into the hands of a rising darkness.Writers: SCREENPLAY: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Guillermo del Toro NOVEL: J.R.R. Tolkien
- DirectorMichael WinterbottomStarsSteve CooganRob BrydonRosie FellnerTwo men, six meals in six different places on a road trip around Italy. Liguria, Tuscany, Rome, Amalfi and ending in Capri.Editors: Mags Arnold, Robbie Gibbon, Paul Monaghan, Marc Richardson
- DirectorRichard LinklaterStarsEllar ColtranePatricia ArquetteEthan HawkeThe life of Mason, from early childhood to his arrival at college.AKA BOYHOOD
Editor: Sandra Adair - DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsCarey MulliganMatthias SchoenaertsMichael SheenIn Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor.Cinematography: Charlotte Bruus Christensen
Editing: Claire Simpson - DirectorAngelina JolieStarsJack O'ConnellMiyaviDomhnall GleesonAfter a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.Director: Angelina Jolie
Writers: SCREENPLAY: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Richard LaGravenese. BOOK: Laura Hillenbrand. REWRITE: William Nicholson
Editor? - DirectorSusanne BierStarsBradley CooperJennifer LawrenceRhys IfansIn Depression-era North Carolina, the future of George Pemberton's timber empire becomes complicated when he marries Serena.Director: Susanne Bier
Editors: Pernille Bech Christensen, Matthew Newman, Simon Webb