At a time when documentary films are reaching larger audiences than ever, filmmakers working internationally face unprecedented threats, according to film scholar B. Ruby Rich, who will moderate a ...

This spring quarter, the 2014 Arts Dean’s Lecture Series Issues in the Arts features a series of free lectures by guest speakers from the film course “Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Cinema,” taught by ...

The year 1960 is referred to as "The Year of Africa" — when 16 newly independent African countries took their seats at the United Nations. It was the culmination of a political earthquake as leaders ...

Once in a while, never often, a film comes along that defies the protocols of the moment and delivers an unexpectedly wondrous impact. Thus it was that Jimmy sent this writer skittering down the ...

The start of the 1990s saw an explosion of gay and lesbian films that defied convention. They mixed postmodern sensibilities with contemporary anxieties about everything from the AIDS epidemic to ...

This is a continuation of a previous post, recapping the conference held as part of Montreal‘s Image+Nation Film Festival 20th Anniversary. After the jump, I’ll highlight B. Ruby Rich‘s fantastic ...

Writing in these pages 10 years ago about an explosion of gay-themed movies on the festival circuit, critic B. Ruby Rich employed the phrase “new queer cinema.” The tag stuck, and to this day remains ...

A killer game of hide and seek.

Critics Kent Jones, B. Ruby Rich, Joe McElhaney and Miriam Bale discuss the unique qualities of "Johnny Guitar," its las | dHNzX3FZZU5hNC1Sbmw0 This disease has no cure, and it’s suddenly spreading ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract FQ editor-in-chief B. Ruby Rich presents her take on the online/hybrid Sundance Film Festival 2021. She notes the various ways in which the ...