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21c and LFS Monthly Film Series present a Double Feature and
Q&A with Kentucky Native and acclaimed film filmmaker Allison Anders
BORDER RADIO: Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 7PM
GAS FOOD LODGING: Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 9PM
Atrium Gallery
The event is free and open to the public
For this Month's Film Series, 21c and LFS bring you a special double feature of
the Kentucky-born, Los Angeles-based filmmaker Allison Anders with a Q&A immediately
following each showing. 21c and LFS will show Border Radio (1989) and Gas
Food Lodging (1992), two early films by Anders that gave her critically-acclaimed
status in American independent film.
An evocative 16mm black and white film, Border Radio is a post-punk diary
in which a singer-songwriter goes missing, leaving his wife, a no-nonsense rock
journalist to track his whereabouts. Gas Food Lodging depicts a blue-collar
mother with two diametrically opposed daughters who try to live a normal life in
their whistle-stop desert town in New Mexico. While one escapes in romantic melodramas
of Mexican cinema, the other throws herself into meaningless relationships with
men. Please join us for this special evening for two exceptional films and a chance
to meet such a celebrated filmmaker.
About the filmmaker
A deeply personal filmmaker who has used her own experience to make grittily realistic
and compelling studies of working class women coming of age amid tough social conditions,
Allison Anders has become a renowned independent filmmaker. Kentucky born and Los
Angeles-based, Anders won the New York Film Critics award in 1992 for Best Director
and in 1995 she was the recipient of a MacArthur "genius grant."
Anders is currently a distinguished professor at UC Santa Barbara where she teaches
in the film and media department one quarter every year. Presently, she is developing
a western series for AMC TV with Terry Graham on the life of Comanche Chief Quanah
Parker.
21c is proud to partner with the Louisville Film Society in the continuing Monthly
Film Series. LFS is a publicly supported non-profit organization; support comes
from memberships, event admission, advertisement, contributions, donated materials,
and services.