This 40-film festival features “gun toting, bank robbing, alien blasting, and crimefighting” leading ladies spanning the silent era all the way to the 2010s. Standouts include Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde (1967); Sigourney Weaver in Alien (1979) as well as Aliens (1986); Uma Thurman in both Kill Bills (2003 and 2004); and Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games (2012). Most movies will have several showings. —Julia Vitale