Image from the motion picture Variety Image from the motion picture Variety

Variety - 35MM

Drama | 1983 | 100MIN

Director

Bette Gordon

Cast

Sandy Mcleod
Will Patton
Luis Guzmán
Nan Goldin

While writing the script for Variety, Kathy Acker made a note: “Every step forward in desire, remember, needs two backward and around steps.” Variety traces the choreography of desire’s multi-directional steps, as we follow a Times Square porn theater’s newest hire on her journey into fantasy, voyeurism, and a bit of light stalking.

Q&A with filmmaker Bette Gordon following 3/9 screening. Moderated by staff writer and director of social media at Criterion, Hillary Weston.

Portrait of filmmaker Bette Gordon Portrait of filmmaker Bette Gordon

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Q&A with Bette Gordon

Filmmaker Bette Gordon joins us at the Roxy Cinema for a Q&A following a screening of her 1983 feature Variety. Moderated by writer Hilary Weston.

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