SAT JUL 8, 2023 4:00 PM RUBY IN PARADISE $10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission) Los Feliz 3 | Introduction by actor Ashley Judd ‘Victor Nunez: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’ Tickets are no longer on sale for this event.
ABOUT THE FILM: Writer-director Victor Nunez was on the verge of retiring from the film industry when he decided to take a chance on one last movie, putting some inheritance money into this tale of a young woman’s journey from the Tennessee backwoods to the more cosmopolitan Panama City, Florida. The result was a seminal independent film of the 1990s that won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and announced Ashley Judd as a major talent in a film that Nunez has referred to not as a coming-of-age story, but as a “becoming an adult” story. Judd perfectly conveys the complexities of a character in the wild trying to find her way in a world where she’s stretched thin both emotionally and financially, and she gets expert support from the actors (Allison Dean and Dorothy Lyman) she encounters along the way. Nunez served as his own camera operator on the film, and his richly textured 16mm photography creates an intimacy between the audience and the characters that has led RUBY IN PARADISE to endure as an American classic. Program notes by film historian Jim Hemphill. FORMAT: DCP COUNTRY: USA