Alex Ross Perry and Elisabeth Moss Set for QUEEN OF EARTH Screening Tonight at Moving Image

Alex Ross Perry has become one of the most accomplished and provocative American independent filmmakers, with four disparate feature films that reinvent genres, are emotionally transgressive, feature scabrous dark humor, and evoke great cinema of the past while pushing ahead towards new forms.

From August 22 through 25, 2015, Museum of the Moving Image has presented all of his features, including a special preview screening of the new film Queen of Earth, with Perry and Moss in person, tonight, August 25.

"Alex Ross Perry's two most recent films feature unforgettable and vivid performances-most notably Elisabeth Moss's daring portrayal of emotional despair in the astonishing Queen of Earth," said Chief Curator David Schwartz. "The Museum is pleased to offer New Yorkers an opportunity to catch up on an impressive body of work by this unique emerging talent who has incorporated his love of cinema into his own original vision."

For tickets and more information, go to movingimage.us.

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SPECIAL PREVIEW SCREENING
Queen of Earth
With Elisabeth Moss and Alex Ross Perry in person
TONIGHT, AUGUST 25, 7:30 P.M.
Dir. Alex Ross Perry. 90 mins. With Elisabeth Moss, Patrick Fugit, Katherine Waterson. Catherine (played in what Variety calls "an utterly fearless central performance by Elisabeth Moss") has entered a particularly dark period in her life. Following her father's death and a bad breakup with her longtime boyfriend, she decides to spend a week recuperating in the lake house of her best friend, Virginia. However, fissures between the two women begin to appear, sending Catherine into a downward spiral of delusion and madness. As Scott Foundas points out in his Variety review, "Perry is working in a style that seems equally influenced by doppelganger narratives like Bergman's Persona and Brian De Palma's Sisters.
Tickets: $25 public/$15 Museum members at the Film Lover level or above/Free for Silver Screen members and above.

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