WEEKEND GEMS

By @nadreviews

Earth to Films' Weekend Gems are 3-4 recommended films to watch over the weekend (or to bookmark for another time). The majority of selected films are directed by a woman and/or star women. Take a look at the gems to date and tune in weekly for the next lineup!

January 14, 2022
The Tragedy of Macbeth (directed by Joel Coen)
The Night House (directed by David Bruckner)
Encanto (directed by Jared Bush, Byron Howard & Charise Castro Smith)
See For Me (directed by Randall Okita)

January 7, 2022
Yellowjackets (created by Ashley Lyle & Bart Nickerson)
Euphoria (created by Sam Levinson)
Abbott Elementary (created by Quinta Brunson)
Landscapers (created by Ed Sinclair & Will Sharpe)

December 31, 2021
The Lost Daughter (directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal)
The Matrix Resurrections (directed by Lana Wachowski)
C'mon C'mon (directed by Mike Mills)
The Velvet Underground (directed by Todd Haynes)

December 17, 2021
The Novice (directed by Lauren Hadaway)
Nightmare Alley (directed by Guillermo Del Toro)
Swan Song (directed by Benjamin Cleary)
The Hand of God (directed by Paolo Sorrentino)

December 10, 2021
West Side Story (directed by Steven Spielberg)
Encounter (directed by Michael Pearce)
The Unforgivable (directed by Nora Fingscheidt)
Off the Rails (directed by Jules Williamson)

December 3, 2021
The Power of the Dog (directed by Jane Campion)
Silent Night (directed by Camille Griffin)
Wolf (directed by Nathalie Biancheri)
Single All The Way (directed by Michael Mayer)

November 26, 2021
The Humans (directed by Stephen Karam)
King Richard (directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green)
Bruised (directed by Halle Berry)
Ma Belle, My Beauty (directed by Marion Hill)

November 19, 2021
House of Hummingbird (directed by Bora Kim)
The Great: Season 2 (created by Tony McNamara)
She Paradise (directed by Maya Cozier)
The Feast (directed by Lee Haven Jones)

November 12, 2021
Passing (directed by Rebecca Hall)
tick, tick...BOOM! (directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda)
Night Raiders (directed by Danis Goulet)
Belfast (directed by Kenneth Branagh)

November 6, 2021
Spencer (directed by Pablo Larraín)
Eternals (directed by Chloé Zhao)
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (directed by Will Sharpe)
Beans (directed by Tracey Deer)

October 29, 2021
Language Lessons (directed by Natalie Morales)
Last Night in Soho (directed by Edgar Wright)
Lamb (directed by Valdimar Jóhannsson)
The Silence of the Lambs (directed by Jonathan Demme)

October 22, 2021
Dune (directed by Denis Villeneuve)
Bergman Island (directed by Mia Hansen-Love)
Found (directed by Amanda Lipitz)
Night Teeth (directed by Adam Randall)

October 15, 2021
Mass (directed by Fran Kranz)
You: Season 3 (created by Sera Gamble & Greg Berlanti)
I'm Your Man (directed by Maria Schrader)
Fever Dream (directed by Claudia Llosa)

October 8, 2021
Titane (directed by Julia Ducourneau)
No Time To Die (directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga)
Summertime (directed by Carlos Lopez Estrada)
I Carry You With Me (directed by Heidi Ewing)

October 1, 2021
Maid (created by Molly Smith Metzler)
Mayday (directed by Karen Cinorre)
The Guilty (directed by Antoine Fuqua)
Nightbooks (created by David Yarovesky)

September 24, 2021
The Mad Women's Ball (directed by Melanie Laurent)
Birds of Paradise (directed by Sarah Adina Smith)
Midnight Mass (created by Mike Flanagan)
RESPECT (directed by Kiesl Tommy) 

*Hiatus for TIFF 2021*

September 3, 2021
Only Murders In the Building (created by Steve Martin & Josh Hoffman)
Reservation Dogs (created by Sterlin Harjo & Taiki Waititi)
Worth (directed by Sara Colangelo)
Wild Indian (directed by Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.)

August 27, 2021
Candyman (directed by Nia DaCosta)
Unpregnant (directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg)
Reminiscence (directed by Lisa Joy)
Under the Volcano (directed by Gracie Otto)

August 20, 2021
The Chair (created by Amanda Peet & Annie Wyman)
Annette (directed by Leos Carax)
Rare Beasts (directed by Billie Piper)
The Smartest Kids in the World (directed by Tracy Droz Tragos)

August 13, 2021
CODA (directed by Sian Heder)
Beckett (directed by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino)
Materna (directed by David Gutnik)
Ema (directed by Pablo Larrain)

August 6, 2021
The Suicide Squad (directed by James Gunn) 
Pig (directed by Michael Sarnoski)
Lorelei (directed by Sabrina Doyle)
Vivo (directed by Kirk DeMicco)

July 30, 2021
The Green Knight (directed by David Lowery)
Jungle Cruise (directed by Jaume Collet-Serra) 
How It Ends (directed by Zoe Lister-Jones & Daryl Wein)
The Last Letter from Your Lover (directed by Augustine Frizzell)

July 23, 2021
Zola (directed by Janicza Bravo)
Jolt (directed by Tanya Wexler)
Playing With Sharks (directed by Sally Aitken)
Lift Like A Girl (directed by Mayye Zayed)

July 16, 2021
Fear Street Part 3: 1666 (directed by Leigh Janiak)
Never Have I Ever: Season 2 (created by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher)
Summer of Soul (directed by Questlove)
Gunpowder Milkshake (directed by Navot Papushado)

July 9, 2021
Black Widow (directed by Cate Shortland)
The Sparks Brothers (directed by Edgar Wright)
Werewolves Within (directed by Josh Ruben)
Fear Street Part 2: 1978 (directed by Leigh Janiak)

July 2, 2021
Fear Street Part 1: 1994 (directed by Leigh Janiak)
Black Conflux (directed by Nicole Dorsey)
No Sudden Move (directed by Steven Soderbergh)
Till Death (directed by S.K. Dale)

June 25, 2021
Hacks (created by Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs & Jen Statsky)
I May Destroy You (created by Michaela Coel)
Sisters on Track (directed by Tone Grøttjord-Glenne & Corinne van der Borch)
False Positive (directed by John Lee)

June 18, 2021
Luca (directed by Enrico Casarosa)
Censor (directed by Prano Bailey-Bond)
Miss Juneteenth (directed by Channing Godfrey Peoples)
Before/During/After (directed by  Stephen Kunken & Jack Lewars)

June 11, 2021
In The Heights (directed by Jon M. Chu)
Skater Girl (directed by Manjari Makijany)
Holler (directed by Nicole Riegel)
Ahead of the Curve (directed by Jen Rainin & Rivkah Beth Medow)

June 4, 2021
Kayak to Klemtu (directed by Zoe Leigh Hopkins)
Lisey's Story (directed by Pablo Larraín)
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (directed by Michael Chaves)
Tangerine (directed by Sean Baker)

May 28, 2021
Cruella (directed by Craig Gillespie)
Plan B (directed by Natalie Morales)
French Exit (directed by Azazel Jacobs)
In The Earth (directed by Ben Wheatley)

May 21, 2021
​Shirkers (directed by Sandi Tan)
Together Together (directed by Nikole Beckwith)
Army of the Dead (directed by Zach Snyder)
Love & Monsters (directed by Michael Matthews)

May 14, 2021
Oxygen (directed by Alexandre Aja)
Those Who Wish Me Dead (directed by Taylor Sheridan)
The Present (directed by Farah Nabulsi)
The Woman In The Window (directed by Joe Wright)

May 7, 2021 - Mother's Day edition
Mermaids (directed by Richard Benjamin)
Lady Bird (directed by Greta Gerwig)
Erin Brockovich (directed by Steven Soderbergh)
The Joy Luck Club (directed by Wayne Wang)

April 30, 2021
The Mitchells vs. The Machines (directed by Michael Rianda & Jeff Rowe)
Stowaway (directed by Joe Penna)
Atlantics (directed by Mati Diop)
Things Heard & Seen (directed by Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini)

April 16, 2021
Underplayed (directed by Stacey Lee)
Coded Bias (directed by Shalini Kantayya)
Sugar Daddy (directed by Wendy Morgan)
Mare of Easttown (directed by Craig Zobel)

April 9, 2021
Nomadland (directed by Chloé Zhao)
The Power (directed by Corrina Faith)
Quo vadis, Aida? (directed by Jasmila Zbanic)
Thunder Force (directed by Ben Falcone)

April 2, 2021
Concrete Cowboy (directed by Ricky Staub)
Clemency (directed by Chinonye Chukwu)
Run (directed by Aneesh Chaganty)
No Ordinary Man (directed by Aisling Chin-Yee & Chase Joynt)

March 26, 2021
The Father (directed by Florian Zeller)
Boogie (directed by Eddie Huang)
Violation (directed by Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli)
Shiva Baby (directed by Emma Seligman)

March 19, 2021 - Digital TIFF edition
Martha: A Picture Story (directed by Selina Miles)
Two of Us (directed by Filippo Meneghetti)
Night of the Kings (directed by Philippe Lacôte)
Meditation Park (directed by Mina Shum)

March 12, 2021
The Mauritanian (directed by Kevin Macdonald)
Monsoon (directed by Hong Khaou)
My Octopus Teacher (directed by Pippa Ehrlich & James Reed)
Late Night (directed by Nisha Ganatra)

March 5, 2021
Raya and the Last Dragon (directed by Don Hall & Carlos López Estrada)
Moxie (directed by Amy Poehler)
The World to Come (directed by Mona Fastvold)
Sophie Jones (directed by Jessie Barr)
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February 26, 2021
Minari (directed by Lee Isaac Chung)
Anne at 13,000 ft (directed by Kazik Radwanski)
Supernova (directed by Harry Macqueen)
Summerland (directed by Jessica Swale)

February 19, 2021
I Care a Lot (directed by J Blakeson)
Test Pattern (directed by Shatara Michelle Ford)
The Incredible Jessica James (directed by Jim Strouse)
Lady Macbeth (directed by William Oldroyd)

February 12, 2021
Saint Maud (directed by Rose Glass)
Judas and the Black Messiah (directed by Shaka King)
Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (Lili Horvat)
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (directed by Josh Greenbaum)

February 5, 2021
Rocks (directed by Sarah Gavron)
Malcolm & Marie (directed by Sam Levinson)
I'm No Longer Here (directed by Fernando Frias)
Little Fish (directed by Chad Hartigan)

January 29, 2021
The Dig (directed by Simon Stone)
La Llorona (directed by Jayro Bustamente)
The Rider (directed by Chloé Zhao)
The Half of It (directed by Alice Wu)

January 22, 2021
In the Mood for Love (directed by Wong Kar Wai)
Sylvie's Love (directed by Eugene Ashe)
Identifying Features (directed by Fernanda Valadez)
Mucho Mucho Amor (directed by Kareem Tabsch & Cristina Costantini)

January 16, 2021
Promising Young Woman (directed by Emerald Fennell)
Another Round (directed by Thomas Vinterberg)
One Night in Miami (directed by Regina King)
Driveways (directed by Andrew Ahn)

January 8, 2021
Pretend It's A City (directed by Martin Scorsese)
Fast Color (directed by Julia Hart)
Herself (directed by Phyllida Lloyd)
​Shirley (directed by Josephine Decker)

December 31, 2020 - New Years Eve edition
When Harry Met Sally... (directed by Rob Reiner)
Carol (directed by Todd Haynes)
Phantom Thread (directed by Paul Thomas Anderson)
Bridget Jones’s Diary (directed by Sharon Maguire)

December 18, 2020
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (directed by George C. Wolf)
A Sun (directed by Chung Mong-hong)
Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
On the Rocks (Sofia Coppola)

December 11, 2020
I'm Your Woman (directed by Julia Hart)
Definition Please (directed by Sujata Day)
Wolfwalkers (directed by Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart)
Wander Darkly (directed by Tara Miele)

December 4, 2020
Ammonite (directed by Francis Lee)
Black Bear (directed by Lawrence Michael Levine)
Bring Me An Avocado (directed by Maria Mealla)
Sound of Metal (directed by Darius Marder)

November 27, 2020
Happiest Season (directed by Clea DuVall)
The Nest (directed by Sean Durkin)
Uncle Frank (directed by Alan Ball
Waitress (directed by Adrienne Shelly)

November 20, 2020
Run (directed by Aneesh Chagantry)
Mangrove (directed by Steve McQueen)
Dreamland (directed by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte)
Come Away (directed by Brenda Chapman)

November 13, 2020
The Life Ahead (directed by Edoardo Ponti)
The Broken Hearts Gallery (directed by Natalie Krinsky)
I Am Greta (directed by Nathan Grossman)
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (directed by David E. Talbert)

November 6, 2020
The Dark and the Wicked (directed by Bryan Bertino)
Kindred (directed by Joe Marcantonio)
The Way I See It (directed by Dawn Porter)
Proxima (directed by Alice Winocour)

October 30, 2020 - Halloween edition
The Sixth Sense (directed by M. Night Shyamalan)
His House (directed by Remi Weekes)
Doctor Sleep (directed by Mike Flanagan)
Raw (directed by Julia Ducournau)

October 23, 2020
Columbus (directed by Kogonada)
Kajillionaire (directed by Miranda July)
The Witches (directed by Robert Zemeckis)
Over the Moon (directed by Glen Keane)

October 16, 2020
The Babadook (directed by Jennifer Kent)
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (directed by Aaron Sorkin)
Vampires vs. the Bronx (directed by Oz Rodriguez)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (directed by Ana Lily Amirpour)

October 9, 2020
The Forty-Year-Old Version (directed by Radha Blank)
Eternal Beauty (directed by Craig Roberts)
The Haunting of Bly Manor (created by Mike Flanagan)
She Dies Tomorrow (directed by Amy Seimetz)

October 2, 2020
Radioactive (directed by Marjane Satrapi)
Frida (directed by Julie Taymor)
The Glorias (directed by Julie Taymor)
Misbehaviour (directed by Philippa Lowthorpe)

September 25, 2020
Enola Holmes (directed by Harry Bradbeer)
Residue (directed by Merawi Gerima)
RBG (directed by Julie Cohen and Betsy West)
Blackbird (directed by Roger Michell)

September 4, 2020
Becoming (directed by Nadia Hallgren)
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (directed by Charlie Kaufman)
Mulan (directed by Niki Caro)
The Surrogate (directed by Jeremy Hersh)

August 28, 2020
Lingua Franca (directed by Isabel Sandoval)
Wild Rose (directed by Tom Harper)
Premature (directed by Rashaad Ernesto Green)
The Savages (directed by Tamara Jenkins)

August 21, 2020
The Farewell (directed by Lulu Wang)
Buffaloed (directed by Tanya Wexler)
Girlhood (directed by Celine Sciamma)
Mickey and the Bear (directed by Annabelle Attanasio)

August 14, 2020
I Used to Go Here (directed by Kris Rey)
Project Power (directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman)
Never Rarely Sometimes Always (directed by Eliza Hittman)
Queen & Slim (directed by Melina Matsoukas)

August 7, 2020
Beyond the Lights (directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood)
The Truth (directed by Hirokazu Kore-Eda)
Maudie (directed by Aisling Walsh)
The High Note (directed by Nisha Ganatra)

July 31, 2020
Black Is King (directed by Beyonce)
Selah and the Spades (directed by Tayarisha Poe)
Yes, God, Yes (directed by Karen Maine)
Knock Down the House (directed by Rachel Lears)

July 24, 2020 - Documentary edition
John Lewis: Good Trouble (directed by Dawn Porter)
Jane Goodall: The Hope (directed by Elizabeth Leiter and Kim Woodard)
What Happened, Miss Simone? (directed by Liz Garbus)

July 17, 2020
Little Woods (directed by Nia DaCosta)
Babyteeth (directed by Shannon Murphy)
Love & Basketball (directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood)

July 12, 2020
The Old Guard (directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood)
First Cow (directed by Kelly Reichardt)
Luce (directed by Julius Onah)