"Women In Action" Explode Onto the Screen at Film Forum

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Parent Category: Film and the Arts

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Published on Friday, 25 July 2025 16:02

Written by Brad Balfour

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and your regular movie theaters hath no films as good as what the Film Forum has in store for you. Women in Action is a slate of 40 films being shown at the Film Forum (209 W. Houston Street), from August 15th to September 4th featuring cinema’s most bad-ass leading ladies from around the world. See Maggie Cheung, Gena Rowlands, Michelle Yeoh, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Crawford, Barbara Stanwyck, Tamara Dobson, Faye Dunaway, Jodie Foster, Uma Thurman, and more cleave a swath of destruction across the silver screen.

The series includes two special days with a particular focus. On Saturday, August 30, there will be a special all day tribute to Pam Grier with screenings of The Big Doll House, Coffy, Foxy Brown, and Jackie Brown. Film Critic and author Odie Henderson (Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras, from Abrams Press) will introduce The Big Doll House and Coffy. Silent Women in Action, a program celebrating the great female action stars of early silent serials, including Pearl White (The Perils of Pauline, 1914), Ruth Roland (The Timber Queen, 1922), and Helen Holmes and Helen Gibson (successive stars of The Hazards of Helen, 1914-1917), will run on Monday, August 25.

Other films being screened include:

• Irma Vep
• Gloria 
• Lady Snowblood
• Alien
• Aliens
• Ghost in the Shell (1995)
• Bonnie and Clyde
• La Femme Nikita
• Ms. 45

And more!

To learn more, go to: https://filmforum.org/

Women In Action
August 15 - September 4, 2025

Film Forum
209 West Houston Street
New York, NY 10014

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