VARIETY
Film - Museum Brandhorst | Sparkling and Wild: ’80s New York in Film

VARIETY

Directed by Bette Gordon
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Director: Bette Gordon
Section: Museum Brandhorst | Sparkling and Wild: ’80s New York in Film
Country: USA
Year: 1983
Language: English
Version: Original version
Cast: Sandy McLeod, Will Patton, Richard M. Davidson
18+ (no age rating)

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A feminist classic of the American underground, exploring a locus of secrecy and voyeurism.

Christine needs money. Desperately. So she takes a job selling tickets at an adult movie theater. There she meets a regular customer named Louis and becomes practically obsessed with finding out more about him. The screenplay is by punk writer Kathy Acker, the music by John Lurie, and photographer Nan Goldin puts in a guest appearance. A feminist classic of the American underground, exploring a locus of secrecy and voyeurism.

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Bette Gordon


Bette Gordon, born in 1950, is a US filmmaker. Inspired by the works of Jean-Luc Godard, she began making short films in the 1970s. She addresses themes of sexuality, violence, and power, initially focusing on the female perspective, as in VARIETY (1983). In HANDSOME HARRY (2009), she dealt with discrimination against homosexual men in a heteronormative world.


 

Credits

Screenplay: Kathy Acker, Bette Gordon, Jerry Delamater
Director of Photography: Tom DiCillo, John Foster
Film Editor: Ila von Hasperg
Composer: John Lurie
Producer: Renée Shafransky