Queen of Diamonds
April 26 – May 2, 2019 2:00pm
Directed by Nina Menkes | 1991
With Tinka Menkes, Emmellda J. Beech, Jeff Douglas
One of the most jarringly original independent films of the 1990s, Nina Menkes’ lost underground classic reemerges in a gorgeous new restoration. In a neon-soaked dream vision of Las Vegas, a disaffected blackjack dealer (played by the director’s sister Tinka Menkes) drifts through a series of encounters alternately mundane, surreal, and menacing, while death and violence hover ever-present in the margins. Awash in lush, hallucinatory images, Queen of Diamonds is a haunting study of female alienation that “may become for America in the 90s what Jeanne Dielman was for Europe in the 70s—a cult classic using a rigorous visual composition to penetrate the innermost recesses of the soul” (Bérénice Reynaud, Chicago Reader).
Restored by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation, with funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation.
Post-screening Q&A
Apr 26 (7pm screening): Post-screening Q&A with director Nina Menkes
Apr 27 (4pm screening): Post-screening talk Sex and Power: The Visual Language of Oppression by director Nina Menkes followed by a Q&A
Run time: 77min
Format: DCP
General Admission: $15
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Location
Peter Jay Sharp Building – BAM Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Ave.
Brooklyn NY 11217 USA