Project Description

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“Cobilled with Godard’s lifeless Passion (which received such clamorous ovation in advance that Godard admonished, ‘Wait until you see the movie first’), Ericka Beckman’s excellent 16-mm You the Better was received at the outset with impatience, then rude catcalls, and finally with abusive hostility. If the fate of all great art is to be at first misunderstood, then Beckman’s film, hands down, was the greatest film at the festival…”

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Project Detail

  • Carrie Rickey
  • ARTFORUM Magazine
  • Popcorn and Canvas
  • 1983