The film Colette at the Buskirk-Chumley Theatre, plus two other films
2:00 pm PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: ART ADDICT
4:15 pm for COLETTE
7:00 pm ASK DR. RUTH
The Monroe County Public Library is partnering with the Ryder Film Series for three films on Sunday, May 5 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. You can purchase your $15 ticket at the library’s Friends of the Library Bookstore, and the library will receive half to support library programs. Your ticket is valid for all three of the films about women who rebelled against the status quo, followed their passions, and made a difference:
PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: ART ADDICT (2pm) To say that Peggy Guggenheim was ahead of her time is an understatement. She helped to define her time. A woman of extraordinary tastes and appetites, she was was an heiress to her family fortune who became a central figure in the modern art movement. She smuggled canvases out of Nazi-occupied Paris. As she moved through the cultural upheaval of the 20th century, she collected not only art, but artists. Her colorful personal history included such figures as Samuel Beckett, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock, Alexander Calder, and Marcel Duchamp. This is at once a capsule history of Modernism and a vibrant portrait of a truly amazing woman. (96 min)
COLETTE (4:15) As a young woman, Colette was locked in her room by her husband and ordered to ghostwrite a novel that would be published under his name. Colette, the film, is the story of how she reclaimed the authorship of her work — and her life. Keira Knightly stars as the writer who electrified Paris in the 1920s and revolutionized literature, fashion and sexual expression.
The story of how Colette became a gay icon of artistic achievement in the world of letters as well as a symbol of freedom and power in a male-dominated world has a relevance for today’s feminist movement that is astonishing. – The Observer
ASK DR. RUTH (7pm) Don’t let her small stature fool you. Standing at under five feet tall, Dr Ruth Westheimer is a force. She survived the Holocaust and then went on to completely transform the way America talked about sex (and particularly women’s sexual pleasure). At 90 years old, she hasn’t stopped working – and still promises the best sex you’ve ever had if you listen to her. (94 min)