Presented by B. Ruby Rich
In what we hope will be the first of many more clips-talks at future
festivals (think The Celluloid Closet come to life), we proudly
present a fun and lively afternoon with one of the most important
lesbian and feminist film critics working today, B. Ruby Rich. A commentator
for The Advocate and National Public Radio, she has put together
a program that examines the 1990s phenomenon of women who team up
for murder and mayhem (we're definitely not in Kansas anymore!). Maybe
they're lovers, maybe not.Ý Combining short clips from a wide range
of films along with her trademark witty and insightful commentary,Ý
Rich compares current political attitudes toward women-loving-women
and popular culture representations of lesbianism to that of the 70s
and 80s.Ý Linking the more recent movies to the emergence of Lesbian
Chic, the program includes excerpts of films from the early 1960s
inspiration of Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! right up to such
art-house hits as Butterfly Kiss, Sister My Sister,
New Zealand's Heavenly Creatures and Claude Chabrol's La
CÈrÈmonie.Ý Entertaining, enlightening and just a little bit naughty,
Lethal Lesbians is a perfect second half to our Sunday "ladies
who lunch" program.
B. Ruby Rich, who coined the now classic term "The New Queer
Cinema," has been a contributor to The Village Voice,
Sight and Sound, OUT and Mirabella, and has a regularly
appearing column inÝ The Advocate.Ý She is currently the film
and video editor for GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
and has been a commentator on National Public Radio as well as
a guest on television'sÝ Roger Ebert Show.Ý Author of Chick
Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement, she
teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.
3:00 PM Screening only $10
Complete afternoon package of History Lessons, Lethal Lesbians,
plus The Ladies Who Lunch $30
Lethal
Lesbians