“All About Eve” and her sisters (CD)

Al Auster hosts a discussion of recent Hollywood films about women, namely “An Unmarried Woman’, “Julia”, and “The Turning Point”. Panelists include Elizabeth Hess, cultural editor of “Seven Days” and “HERESIES”; Marjorie Rosen, film critic for Ms. Magazine and author of “Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies and the American Dream”; and Jan Rosenberg, professor of Women’s Studies at Empire State College – Old Westbury and co-organizer of the second Women’s International Film Festival. The panelists discuss whether or not these films are “feminist” because (or in spite of) their focus on women, recent documentary and personal films that address women’s familial conflicts, and the portrayal of women in Cuban cinema.