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FEATURED: "Frozen River" (star Melissa Leo and director Courtney Hunt on set, pictured above)
B. Ruby Rich teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz and directs the Social Documentation M.A. Program in its Community Studies Department. She writes for The Guardian (UK), Sight and Sound (UK), Cinema Journal, SF Bay Guardian, sf360, among others, and works for radio, television, and film festivals.
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Taylor inhabits female beings who refuse to play by the rules and, in so doing, she makes it clear to us how inappropriate those rules really are, and how boring are the characters—and actors—who try to play by them. Read more
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