92YTribeca (Venue Partner)
200 Hudson St
212.601.1000
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The Group
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Thursday Dec 3, 2009 (7:30–9:30pm)
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$12.00
Part of the Queer/Art/Film series. Presented by writer Hilton Als.
"When I first saw The Group, on the "Million Dollar Movie," that pre-TCM repository of flicks one was too young to see during their original release, I was a boy living in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. From the film's opening frames, I was gobsmacked by how familiar the film's protagonists were to me. Their emotional lives and interest in the emotional lives of other women, felt as immediate and true as a home movie, despite the film's being about college educated white women who come of age between Roosevelt's New Deal and Eisenhower's cracked and arid reign. Still, in the film of my life, the opinionated, working class black women I knew, who viewed lesbianism as more of a commonplace than one's own male queerness, spoke for me. For a long time, I made their difference my own: I knew no other. The Group, was not only another window into the world of women who raised me, but into the lovely language—visual and verbal—of what makes queerness just that: different."—Hilton Als
Director: Sidney Lumet. 150 min. 1966. 35mm.
Hilton Als is a Staff Writer at The New Yorker Magazine. His work also appears in the New York Review of Books.
