From The Women's Desk: Ellis Island: Blueprint For Guantanamo?

The Case of Claudia Jones: Black, Communist And Female, And Buried Twice.
Incarcerated without due process on Ellis Island in 1948 along with countless other political prisoners for their leftist views, the eminent forgotten journalist and activist was eventually sent into exile in the UK.
A conversation with Left Of Karl Marx author Carole Boyce Davies, with a spotlight on the Jones burial site next to Karl Marx, and a tale of two political exiles in the UK.
Also....Workers Of The World Divide? Class Struggle Vs. Identity Politics.
And....The Wedding Gift: The History Of US Slavery From A Woman's Perspective. Vanessa Cooper in a conversation with writer Marlen Bodden.

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Vanessa Cooper can be heard on WLIB Radio, WBLS Radio and the Gary Byrd Experience Radio Networks, and she writes for the Amsterdam News. Vanessa is a member of the Women Film Critics Circle.

American Radical: The Trials Of Norman Finkelstein

Screening Room. The Self-Hating Jew: Fact Or Fallacy? While Barak Obama and Bill Cosby are praised for scorn towards black ghetto residents for being poor, Norman Finkelstein is charged with anti-semitism for denouncing wealthy Holocaust profiteers and Israel. What gives? A conversation with the controversial scholar, social critic and author of Beyond Chutzpah and The Holocaust Industry, about his documentary: American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein.

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The Arts Magazine Screening Room: Creation

The Theory Of Natural Selection And The Origin Of Charles Darwin.

A look at the Darwin biopic, Creation, and conversations with Charles Darwin's great great-grandson Randal Keynes, author of the biography Annie's Box on which the film is based, and actor Paul Bettany, who stars as the conflicted scientist. And how Darwin was a product of evolution himself, in terms of the converging politics and economics of his 19th century historical moment that made his revolutionary discovery possible.

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Remembering Jennifer Jones and a Perfect Afternoon at the Movies

By Penelope Andrew

Jennifer Jones in The Song Of Bernadette [1943]

Given her unusual beauty and extraordinary talent, it is tragic that her rich body of work is so unfamiliar to audiences today. The dearth of profiles and obituaries that appeared after her death on December 17, 2009 is heartbreaking. It may also be true that the actress with a dramatic range enabling her to play an enchanting ghost of a girl who becomes an artist's muse in The Portrait of Jennie with equal ease as Gustave Flaubert's shallow yet fiery adulteress in Madame Bovary is simply too difficult to capture in words.

Jennifer Jones always defied easy analysis, so much the better for us to simply surrender to the films themselves....

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Penelope Andrew, a NYC-based writer who contributes to The Huffington Post and Critical Women on Film, is a member of the Women Film Critics Circle. A certified psychoanalytic psychotherapist and licensed clinical social worker, she maintains a private psychotherapy practice in NYC.

The Arts Magazine Screening Room: Cine Manifest

Rural Radical Roots In Movies, And the Birth Of The Cine Manifest Marxist Film Collective.

A conversation with Cine Manifest filmmaker John Hanson, director of Western Coal, Prairie Trilogy: Rebel Earth, Prairie Fire, Survivor, and Northern Lights. And, other highlights of the current Cine Manifest Retrospective in NY.

Also, Empire Burlesque rebel cabaret music, by Jamie Smith.

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