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 ...

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 ...

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The passage of Proposition 8 in California, which banned gay marriage in the state, transformed the film Milk into a political touchstone that serves as a reminder that gays “aren’t home free yet,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...