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 ...

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 ...

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 ...