You're Invited To Roosevelt Island Women's Movie Group Showing Of Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me - Thursday June 18, Please RSVP

From the Roosevelt Island Women's Movie Group:

The Women's Movie Group invites you to our fifth and final movie of the season.

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Actor and comic Elaine Stritch -- and her admirers -- will royally entertain you on Thursday, June 18. 2015 at 7:00 pm in the Party Room at 425 Main Street.

ELAINE STRITCH: SHOOT ME is a hilarious, off-beat and poignant portrait of the one-of-a-kind Broadway legend at age 87 who, as usual, wears her trademark white blouse as she grabs the spotlight.

In this revealing documentary combining performances and one-on-one interviews, the uncompromising Tony and Emmy Award winner is showcased both on and off stage via rare archival footage and intimate cinéma vérité.

Suggested minimum donation is $10 to cover our room rental costs.

Please RSVP to riwomenmovie@gmail.com and plan to bring healthy snacks or drinks for six guests.

We ask that you consider attending this film and inviting a guest who will enjoy the evening.

Please RSVP if you plan on attending.

You're Invited To Roosevelt Island Women's Movie Group Showing Of Makers: Women Who Make America - Thursday April 30, Please RSVP

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From the Roosevelt Island Women's Movie Group:

Look back on the past 50 years of the women's movement in America with our next film
MAKERS: Women Who Make America, Thursday, April 30. 2015 at 7:00 pm in the Party Room at 425 Main Street.

MAKERS tells the remarkable story of the most sweeping social revolution in American history, as women have asserted their rights to a full and fair share of political power, economic opportunity, and personal autonomy in the last 50 years. It's a revolution that has unfolded in public and private, in courts and Congress, in the boardroom and the bedroom, changing not only what the world expects from women, but what women expect from themselves.

This is the third in a three-part PBS series. It is NOT the show currently broadcast on PBS. You can enjoy the movie even if you did not see the previous segments.

We had a lively discussion in January and November recalling feminist activities. Join us and bring a friend.

MAKERS: Women Who Make America

Suggested minimum donation is $8 to cover our room rental and movie purchase costs.

Please RSVP to riwomenmovie@gmail.com and plan to bring healthy snacks or drinks for six guests.

You're Invited To Roosevelt Island Women's Movie Group Showing Of Makers: Women Who Make America - Thursday January 29, Please RSVP

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From the Roosevelt Island Women's Movie Group:

Look back on the past 50 years of the women's movement in America with our next film:

MAKERS: Women Who Make America, Thursday, January 29. 2015 at 7:00 pm in the Party Room at 425 Main Street.

MAKERS tells the remarkable story of the most sweeping social revolution in American history, as women have asserted their rights to a full and fair share of political power, economic opportunity, and personal autonomy in the last 50 years. It's a revolution that has unfolded in public and private, in courts and Congress, in the boardroom and the bedroom, changing not only what the world expects from women, but what women expect from themselves.

This is the second in a three-part PBS series. It is NOT the show currently broadcast on PBS.

We had a lively discussion in November recalling participation in consciousness-raising groups and other 1970s feminist activities. Join us and bring a friend.



Suggested minimum donation is $8 to cover our room rental and movie purchase costs.

Please RSVP to riwomenmovie@gmail.com and plan to bring healthy snacks or drinks for six guests

Roosevelt Island Women's Movie Group Showing Anita Hill Story - Anita: Speaking Truth To Power September 18 At Gallery RIVAA 7 PM, Bring A Friend

From the Roosevelt Island Women's Movie Group:

Speak out against sexual harassment with our next film: Anita: Speaking Truth to Power, Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 7:00 pm in Gallery RIVAA at 527 Main Street.

An entire country watched as a poised, beautiful African-American woman sat before a Senate committee of 14 white men and with a clear, unwavering voice recounted the repeated acts of sexual harassment she had endured while working with U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. Anita Hill's graphic testimony in 1991 was a turning point for gender equality in the U.S. and ignited a political firestorm about sexual harassment and power in the workplace that resonates still today.

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Anita: Speaking Truth to Power

Suggested minimum donation is $7 to cover our room rental and movie purchase costs.

Bring a friend.

Please reply and RSVP to riwomenmovie@gmail.com and plan to bring healthy snacks or drinks for six guests.

Here's the trailer for the film.

Roosevelt Island Women's Movie Group Showing Watermarks May 15 At Gallery RIVAA - Film About Champion Austrian Women Swimmers Lives Changed By Nazi Anschluss

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From the Roosevelt Island Women's Movie Group:

Dive into the water with our next film: Watermarks, Thursday, May 15, 2014 at 7:00 pm in Gallery RIVAA at 527 Main Street.

For young, sports-minded Jewish women of Vienna in 1933, participating in swimming competition with the sports club Hakoah was an all-consuming experience. Training and friendships were the fabric of their lives, until the Nazis invaded Austria.

Learn what happened to these teenage athletes and be part of their reunion as 80-year olds.

Suggested minimum donation is $7 to cover our room rental costs.

Please reply and RSVP to riwomenmovie@gmail.com and plan to bring healthy snacks or drinks for six guests.

Feel free to invite your friends and neighbors.

According to the Watermarks synopsis:

Watermarks is the story of the champion women swimmers of the legendary Jewish sports club, Hakoah Vienna. Hakoah (“The Strength" in Hebrew) was founded in 1909 in response to the notorious Aryan Paragraph, which forbade Austrian sports clubs from accepting Jewish athletes. Its founders were eager to popularize sport among a community renowned for such great minds as Freud, Mahler and Zweig, but traditionally alien to physical recreation. Hakoah rapidly grew into one of Europe's biggest athletic clubs, while achieving astonishing success in many diverse sports. In the 1930s Hakoah's best-known triumphs came from its women swimmers, who dominated national competitions in Austria. After the Anschluss, the political unification of Nazi Germany and Austria in 1938, the Nazis shut down the club, but the swimmers managed to flee the country before the war broke out, thanks to an escape operation organized by Hakoah’s functionaries.

Sixty-five years later, director Yaron Zilberman meets the members of the women’s swim team in their homes around the world, and arranges for them to have a reunion in their old swimming pool in Vienna, a journey that evokes memories of youth, femininity, and strengthens lifelong bonds. Told by the swimmers, now in their eighties, Watermarks is about a group of young girls with a passion to be the best. It is the saga of seven outstanding athletes who still swim daily as they age with grace....

Here's the trailer for Watermarks.

Women Art Revolution Documentary Screened At Roosevelt Island Women's Movie Group Thursday April 3 - You're Invited To A Secret History Of Feminist Art

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An invitation from the Roosevelt Island Women's Movie Group:

Women Artists and Friends! See you on Thursday, April 3, 2014 at 7:00 pm for our next movie.

A secret history of feminist art, Women Art Revolution deftly illuminates the under-explored women's movement through conversations, observations, archival footage, and works of visionary artists, historians, curators, and critics. Starting from its roots in the 1960s antiwar and civil rights protests, the film details developments in women's art through the 1970s and explores how the pioneering artists created the most significant art movement of the late 20th century.

Features interviews with the Guerrilla Girls and Judy Chicago, plus footage of Congressional debate about The Dinner Party.

http://www.womenartrevolution.com/

And if you think the art world no longer discriminates against women, and this movie is outdated, read this review of a book about a woman who asked men to front for her so her work might be exhibited.

Suggested minimum donation is $7 to cover our room rental costs.

Please reply and RSVP to riwomenmovie@gmail.com and plan to bring healthy snacks or drinks for six guests.

Feel free to invite your friends and neighbors.

Here's the Women Art Revolution movie trailer.



Learn more about the movie at its web site and remember to RSVP.

Roosevelt Island Women's Movie Group Showing Shocking And Hilarious Documentary On Female Viagra Drug Thursday Night January 23 - Orgasm Inc

From the Roosevelt Island Women's Movie Group:

On Thursday, January 23, 2014 at 7:00 pm the Roosevelt Island Women's Movie Group will show its next movie in the Party Room at 425 Main Street.

In this shocking and hilarious documentary, filmmaker Liz Canner takes a job editing videos for a drug trial for a pharmaceutical company. Her employer is developing what they hope will be the first Viagra drug for women that wins FDA approval to treat a new disease: Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD).

Liz gains permission to film the company for her own documentary. Initially, she plans to create a movie about science and pleasure, but she soon begins to suspect that her employer, along with a cadre of other medical companies, might be trying to take advantage of women (and potentially endanger their health) in pursuit of billion dollar profits. This is a powerful look inside the medical industry and the marketing campaigns that are literally and figuratively reshaping our everyday lives around health, illness, desire — and that ultimate moment.

The name of the movie says it all: ORGASM, INC.



Suggested minimum donation is $7; our room rental and movie purchase costs are higher this time.

Please RSVP to riwomenmovie@gmail.com and plan to bring healthy snacks or drinks for six guests.

Feel free to invite your women friends and neighbors.

Roosevelt Island Women's Movie Group Showing Rebel: Loreta Velazquez, Secret Soldier of The American Civil War On Thursday At Gallery RIVAA

From the Roosevelt Island Women's Movie Group:

Roosevelt Island Women's Movie Group Shows Rebel: Loreta Velazquez, Secret Soldier of the American Civil War on Thursday, December 5 at 7:00 pm.

Viewing films with themes as varied as political, social and sexual topics, plus psychological and cross cultural issues, the Roosevelt Island Women's Movie Group meets four to five times per year, since April, 2010. The group, started by Janet Falk and Sheila Berger Chazin, offers Roosevelt Island women and their friends the opportunity to view films on timely issues and, in the optional, informal post- film discussion, the attendees share their personal and professional perspectives on how they relate to the stories and topics.

According to Falk, "It began as an opportunity to meet with a group of women friends, plus their neighbors. It’s like a book club, but without the reading assignment." Sharing experiences that may be personal and intimate prompted her to seek out Chazin as a co-facilitator. “As a long-time Island resident, Sheila had many women contacts on the Island to invite. And as a professional therapist, workshop leader and educator she was experienced at leading group discussions that can become personal.” For her part, Chazin added, “I immediately thought this was a great idea. There had not been a group like it before on the Island – a chance for women from various backgrounds and ages to get together, share an activity and discuss our experiences.”

Falk noted that “Roosevelt Island is a community of do-it-yourself organizations. If you build it, they will come. It’s gratifying that the group continues to meet, and that, at each session, new members join.” Chazin added, “Our multi-generational and varied cultural membership make for lively discussion,” adding that “mutual respect among the members ensures privacy”.

Participants bring healthy snacks to share. A fee of $6.00 covers the purchase of films and the cost of the meeting space. The group moved from a Southtown room to Gallery RIVAA to offer financial support to the Gallery.

All Island women and their friends are welcome to attend the next movie, Rebel: Loreta Velazquez, Secret Soldier of the American Civil War, on Thursday, December 5, at 7:00 P.M. at Gallery RIVAA, 527 Main Street. The film re-creates the story of a woman who fought as a Confederate soldier, while disguised as a man. She later moved to the Union side, where she was a spy. Her autobiography recounting her work for both armies was published in 1876 and was denounced, perhaps because its story was so unconventional.

To RSVP, please contact riwomenmovie@gmail.com.