Indie 90s: Gas Food Lodging (1992)
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Director: Allison Anders Run Time: 101 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1992
Starring: Brooke Adams, Fairuza Balk, Ione Skye, James Brolin, Robert Knepper
Country: United States
Language: English, Spanish
Indie 90s: The Revolution That Changed Cinema
The ’90s didn’t just give us great movies, it changed what movies could be. Independent filmmakers that were breaking the rules, finding new voices, and reshaping American cinema.
Indie 90s features twenty-two films in all — all independent, all revolutionary.
About the film:
Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop diner in a small New Mexico town. The beautiful and rebellious Trudi drops out of school and gets a job alongside Nora, while the younger Shade whittles away her time at Spanish movie matinees. Their lives are turned upside down when Trudi becomes pregnant and the girls’ absent father returns.
About the filmmaker:
Allison Anders is an American filmmaker whose innovative work fuses music and pop culture with intimate, deeply human portraits of communities overlooked or misrepresented by Hollywood—working-class women, single mothers, teenage girls, and marginalized communities. She earned her place in the independent film scene with her feature debut Border Radio (1987), followed by Gas Food Lodging (1992), which was nominated for top prizes at Sundance and Berlin, received five Independent Spirit Award nominations, and won her a New York Film Critics Circle Best New Director award and a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. The director’s other films include Mi Vida Loca (1993), Grace of My Heart (1996), and Things Behind the Sun (2001), as well as numerous television projects.
Anders is a pivotal figure in female-centered cinema. In 1999, she convened a summit of more than 100 women filmmakers at the Miramar Hotel in Santa Barbara to discuss the marginalization of women directors and strategies for achieving greater equality. The initiative became known as 50/50, a pivotal moment in cinema history that sparked decades of change.
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