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BAD
GIRLS….AND WHY WE LOVE THEM
The
National Board of Review Sponsors
A
Discussion of Femme Fatales in Cinema
New
York, NY – May 27, 2003 – The National Board of Review of Motion
Pictures and the Writing Center at Marymount
Manhattan College present Bad
Girls…And Why We Love Them. The free film seminar will take place
on Monday, June 16, 2003 at 7pm, at The
Teresa Lang Theatre at Marymount in New
York City.
From
Gene Tierney in Leave Her To Heaven
to Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction,
critics Molly Haskell and Andrew Sarris
will focus on how various “Bad Girls” have shaped the role of the female in
cinema from the 1940's to present day.
MOLLY
HASKELL, author and critic, was
a long time staff writer for The Village
Voice, New York Magazine and Vogue.
She does a monthly film column for The
Guardian UK and has written for many publications,
including The New York Times, Esquire,
The Nation, Town & Country, and The
New York Review of Books. She has
served as Artistic Director of the Sarasota
French Film Festival, on the selection
committee of the New York Film Festival,
as Associate Professor of Film at Barnard
College, and as Adjunct Professor of Film
at Columbia University. Her books
include: “From Reverence to Rape: the
Treatment of Women in the Movies” and
“Holding My Own in No Man's Land: Women
and Men and Films and Feminists.”
ANDREW
SARRIS is Professor of Film
in the School of the Arts at Columbia
University, and Film Critic for the New
York Observer since 1989. Before
that he was Film Critic for the Village
Voice from 1960 to 1989, Editor in Chief
of Cahiers du Cinema in English from 1965
to 1967, and Associate Editor of Film
Culture from 1955 to 1965. He
is a founding member of the National Society
of Film Critics, and a member of the New
York Film Critics Circle. Among
his books are “The Films of Josef von
Sternberg,“ “The American Cinema: Directors
and Directions 1929-1968,” ”Confessions
of A Cultist: on the Cinema 1955-1969,”
“The Primal Screen: Essays on Film and
Related Subjects,” “The John Ford Movie
Mystery,” “You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet:
The American Talking Film, 1927-1949,”
and “History and Memory.” His articles
have appeared in many publications here
and abroad, and his books have been translated
into seven languages.
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