Films

Category: Films

1. SaturdaySCREENINGS: PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL (2008)

   Directed by Gini Reticker. Stirring documentary shows how nonpartisan women activists bring peace to Liberia and help empower the first female head of state. Crossing religious and generation lines, these women first pray for their country, and then take silent, peaceful action. Best Documentary: Tribeca…

2. SaturdaySCREENINGS: JULIA (1977)

   Directed by  Fred Zinneman – With Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards Jr, Maximilian Schell Writer Lillian Hellman helps a radical girlhood friend on an anti-Naxi mission in Europe.  Classic film based on Hellman’s best-selling memoir, Pentimento. Watch for a young Meryl Streep. Oscars: Best…

3. Special film: THIS BOY’S LIFE

   Moving from one unhealthy relationship to another, Caroline (Ellen Barkin) and her son, Toby (Leonardo DiCaprio), roam the country and finally end up in Washington state, where she marries Dwight (Robert De Niro), a modest mechanic. But Dwight fails to be the role model she…

4. WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS?

   BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! A 2nd chance to be part of this event! About 60 women gathered at ArtRage last Thursday night for this screening and discussion around women and art. The time we spent talking afterward left most of us feeling inspired, angry, committed…

5. SaturdaySCREENINGS: Brother Outsider – The Life of Bayard Rustin (2003)

   Directed by Nancy Kates and Bennett Singer Draws on rare archival footage, interviews, and even FBI files, to offer a powerful portrait of this forgotten political activist and Civil Rights strategist. Rustin’s nonviolent philosophy influenced Martin Luther King, but he was also a labor organizer,…