AGORA:Dragged from her chariot by a mob of fanatical vigilante Christian monks, the revered astronomer was stripped naked, skinned to her bones with sharp oyster shells, stoned and burned alive as possibly the first executed witch in history. A kind of purge that was apparently big business back then.
Screening Women: Female Images Inscribed In History.Prairie Miller and Daily Challenge Newspaper's Marie Moore in a Women Film Critics Circle sitdown with actress Sally Hawkins, investigating the striking UK Ford Plant women machinists who made history in Made In Dagenham.
Hello Critical Women:
I was going to go to see the film about the women striking in the UK until I read your comments. I don't think I could stomach it now with your insightful comments. Thank you very much.
Best, Ramie Streng
P.S My mother, Mary Perry Stone, was a social protest ( former WPA ) artist who told me of the sit-ins and strikes she was part of in the Thirties in NYC. So I was lucky to grow up in a family that believed in unions.
There is barely a single moment in this film that doesn't amaze and astonish. Whether focusing on the joys and tragedies of family life; the battles of exploited workers for their humanity; young girls selling their locks of hair for bread.
Or the flowering of this extraordinary woman as she slowly evolves into someone in the process of figuring out herself and the world, and painfully torn between being an artist and a mother. READ DVD REVIEW HERE
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Thelma Adams: Outspoken Critic, Passionate Advocate, Playdate Author, Oscarologist, Women's Issues, Motherhood. Check out her new column:THELMA ADAMS ON REEL WOMEN : Why Do We Need More Women Directors?
"Of course I want a home," writes Mary Elizabeth, "I'm American." Gimme Shelter is the first book to reveal how this primal desire, "encoded into our cultural DNA," drove our nation to extremes, from the heights of an unprecedented housing boom to the depths of an unparalleled crash.
Georgina Lightning: One Of The First Native American Women Directors
Older Than America: One Of The First Feature Films By A Native American Woman, Georgina Lightning
Native American filmmaker Georgina Lightning also stars in her fact based feature film Older Than America, as a young woman haunted by the ghosts of murdered Cree Nation Catholic boarding school children. And she describes how her own father's tragic suicide, like many others suffering such centuries of physical, psychological and sexual abuse at these government organized boarding schools, inspired her film.
We are a gathering of women's voices presenting a fresh and differently experienced perspective from the primarily male dominated film criticism world. We are Critical Women On Film the journal of the Women Film Critics Circle.
Green Porno: You Won't Want Isabella To Get A Room
There's an eco-friendly peep show up on the Internet, Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno. From Isabella's six foot long insect penis to her flesh colored body tights boasting graphic anatomically correct female erogenous zones, this amazing series of short films promises never a dull moment sexy shock and awe.
The radiant colors and beyond imagination fantasy costumes and sets are indescribable. In our conversation with Isabella, we wanted to know if her primary impulse in creating Green Porno was to be sexy. And if not, what then?
Rossellini and Dragonflies Make A Porno. Not exactly bestiality, but don't expect Isabella to get a room. CONTINUE READING HERE...
BIRDS EYE FILM FESTIVAL, UK
Celebrating Women In Film
Birds Eye Film Festival: From Screen Seductresses: Vamps, Vixens And Femmes Fatales, To Last Laugh: Women Create Comedy, And More....
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BLACK FEM LENS seeks to counter the sexist whitewash of the American media regime by offering women of color a progressive space to comment on politics, urban affairs, literature, and the arts.Visit woman word warrior Sikivu Hutchinson at: Blackfemlens.org
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