How to B. Ruby

Fifteen years after film critic B. Ruby Rich proclaimed the emergence of a New Queer Cinema at the Sundance Film Festival, some of the filmmakers who were part of the ad hoc movement reunited in Park City on Saturday night. Frameline, IFC Films, and Strand Releasing toasted Gregg Araki’s “The Living End,” Isaac Julien’s “Derek” and Tom Kalin’s “Savage Grace” at a special Park City dinner. Focus Features’ James Schamus proclaimed it an “historic evening,” during remarks, while Rich (pictured with “Derek” star Tilda Swinton) noted, “this room is filled with history” and singling out Christine Vachon, Frameline’s Michael Lumpkin and others. (Photo by Brian Brooks/indieWIRE. Reprinted with permission, copyright 2008.)

01.21.2008