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.
This year, my nose led me into a thicket exploring subjectivity. Sure, subjectivity is always present, but this year in these films, it was used as a style, as a shiv to pry open the trap doors hiding secrets of the soul, trauma, heartbreak and the secrets of history. Read more
Essays and Features,
Reviews and Criticism,
Women on Film
The best films in the US competitions restored the spirit of the festival’s early days: regionally shot films on restricted budgets with new or non-actors, by film-makers more passionate about what they were shooting than where their career was heading. Read more>>
Essays and Features,
Reviews and Criticism
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 charactersand actorswho try to play by them. Read more
Interviews and Profiles,
Women on Film
Every once in a while a film comes along that changes our perceptions so much that cinema history thereafter has to arrange itself around it. Read more
Essays and Features,
Women on Film