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7/6/2002

Christine Vachon

Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria

...And Killer Films:

Museum Presents Weekend Retrospective of Films by the Accomplished and Adventurous New York Production Company

Program to Include Screenings and Pinewood Dialogues with Christine Vachon, Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol), Todd Solondz (Happiness), and Kimberley Peirce (Boys Don't Cry).

Series dates: June 8 & 9, 2002

The American Museum of the Moving Image will present a weekend-long retrospective Christine Vachon and Killer Films on June 8 and 9, 2002. The series pays tribute to the adventurous and accomplished production company that has created such films as Happiness, Velvet Goldmine, Boys Don't Cry, and I Shot Andy Warhol. All of these feature films, plus a number of shorts will be shown during the weekend, along with personal appearances by producer Christine Vachon, and directors Todd Solondz, Kimberley Peirce, and Mary Harron.
"Killer Films, with its partners Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler, and Katie Roumel, is a central force in New York's independent film world," said David Schwartz, the Museum's Chief Curator of Film. "Their films are aesthetically innovative, politically challenging, and extremely well made."
Vachon, author of the book Shooting to Kill: How an Independent Producer Blasts Through the Barriers to Make Movies That Matter, has often said that she was inspired by the daring and dark American films of the 1970s, movies like The Conversation, Mean Streets, and Nashville, which eschewed easy formulas and happy endings. With determination and resourcefulness, Vachon has kept this tradition alive, even through the culture wars of the 1990s. Vachon produced Todd Haynes's first feature, Poison, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival, and was also used by right-wing minister Donald Wildmon as a target in his attacks on funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. The critically acclaimed yet controversial 1998 film Happiness was dropped by its original distributor October Films after pressure from its corporate parent, Universal Pictures-just as Miramax dropped their plans to release Larry Clark's Kids in 1995 after succumbing to concerns from Disney.
Although these films achieved notoriety, they also earned recognition for their artistic merit. Killer Films has been responsible for some of the most groundbreaking movies of the past decade, including Swoon (1992, directed by Tom Kalin); Safe (1994, Todd Haynes), Go Fish (1994, Rose Troche), Series 7: The Contenders (2001, Daniel Minahan), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001, John Cameron Mitchell), and Storytelling (2001, Todd Solondz). Upcoming films include the eagerly awaited One Hour Photo, starring Robin Williams and directed by Mark Romanek; and The Safety of Objects, directed by Rose Troche, starring Glenn Close, and adapted from the novel by A. M. Homes.

This series was organized by Chief Curator of Film David Schwartz, and was made possible in part by a generous grant from Lifetime Television.

SCHEDULE

Saturday, June 8
1:00 p.m.
"Apparatus Shorts"
DOTTIE GETS SPANKED (Todd Haynes, 1993, 27 mins. With Adam Arkin.)
HE WAS ONCE (Mary Hestand, 1989, 15 mins.) The seemingly tame TV shows I Love Lucy and Davey and Goliath are turned inside-out in these devastating satires.

2:00 p.m. A Pinewood Dialogue with Mary Harron
I SHOT ANDY WARHOL
Samuel Goldwyn, 1996, 103 mins. Directed by Mary Harron. With Lili Taylor, Jared Harris. Writer/director Harron creates a sympathetic yet incisive portrait of Andy Warhol's factory, seen through the eyes of the militant feminist Valerie Solanas, who is brilliantly portrayed by Lili Taylor.

4:30 p.m. A Pinewood Dialogue with Christine Vachon
VELVET GOLDMINE
Miramax, 1998, 124 mins. Directed by Todd Haynes. With Ewan McGregor, Christian Bales. Haynes' thrillingly ambitious musical invokes the structure of Citizen Kane while taking an elegiac, celebratory look at the British glam-rock scene of the 1970s, the last era of outlandish sexual experimentation. Masterfully produced, the film looks worth at least three times its budget.

Sunday, June 9
1:00 p.m.
"Surprise Shorts"
A short film by Todd Haynes about a 1970s pop star will be screened (in 16mm!), along with Christine Vachon's own short DON'T LOOK UP MY SKIRT UNLESS YOU MEAN IT (1994, 5 mins.).

2:00 p.m. A Pinewood Dialogue with Todd Solondz
HAPPINESS
Good Machine, 1998, 134 mins. Directed by Todd Solondz. With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Lara Flynn Boyle. Dropped by its initial distributor under pressure from their corporate parent, Solondz's devastating suburban comedy reveals the tormented lives of three sisters, an obscene phone caller, and a pedophile.

5:00 p.m. A Pinewood Dialogue with Kimberley Peirce
BOYS DON'T CRY
Fox Searchlight, 1999, 118 mins. Directed by Kimberley Peirce. With Hilary Swank, Chloe Sevigny. Hilary Swank won an Academy Award for her heartfelt and harrowing portrait of a young Midwestern woman who passed herself off as a man, and led a volatile life that ended tragically.

MUSEUM INFORMATION:
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Friday, 12 p.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Group tours by appointment, Tuesday through Friday, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
Museum Admission: $8.50 for adults; $5.50 for persons over 65 and for students with ID; $4.50 for children ages 5-18. Children 4 and under and Museum members are admitted free.
Film Programs: Screenings are free with Museum admission unless otherwise noted. Reservation privileges are available to Museum members only.

Program Information: Telephone: (718) 784-0077

The Pinewood Dialogues, an ongoing series of in-depth conversations with creative talents involved in film, television, and digital media, are made possible by a generous grant from the Pinewood Foundation.

The American Museum of the Moving Image occupies a building owned by the City of New York. With the assistance of the Queens Borough President and the Queens Delegation of the New York City Council, the Museum receives support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Vital support is also provided by the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Natural Heritage Trust (administered by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation), the National Science Foundation, corporations, foundations, and individuals.

American Museum of the Moving Image
35 Avenue at 36 Street, Astoria, New York 11106
Subway: R or V trains (R or G on weekends) to Steinway Street. N train to Broadway.

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