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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...