Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart in "The Runaways': More of these, please

Women bought 55% of movie tickets sold in 2009, according to a report released by the MPAA Wednesday. We can hope this means we'll soon be seeing more prominent roles for women on screen, too. Enough with the Meg Ryan weepies and Seth Rogan/Jonah Hill plus interchangeable-blonde-female rom-coms. The fact that "Hurt Locker" director Katherine Bigelow won her history-making Oscar for an action film is all the better. That's one less box to bust out of, and almost erases the horrible, lingering recent memory that is the remake of "The Women," which should have been subtitled, "Hollywood Comes Clean on What It REALLY Thinks of You Gals, As If You Didn't Already Know."

Of course, given that the same study found people aged 12-24 buy a whopping one-third of all movie tickets sold, what this probably means is a lot more "Twilight." An antidote to all that begins this weekend with Walker Art Center's "Women with Vision" film fest. Friday night: "35 Shots of Rum" the final work of formidable femme de film Claire Denis. Saturday night: Floria Sigismondi's rockin' "The Runaways," starring "Twilight" teen idol Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning. The fest runs through March 27.