WHOS AFRAID OF PARKER POSEY?
by Alissa Quart In the mid-Nineties Parker Posey patented a girl next door for the modern era: the culture worker next door. On-screen, she’s been a hard-bitten publishing executive, a romantic fiction author, a rock publicist, a music label CEO, an art dealer, and an arty temp. Her turn in Personal Velocity, the latest installment in the digital-feature-of-the-month club, is no exception. Once Michael Caine-like in her ubiquity, making a remarkable 30 films between 1993 and 1998, Posey hasn’t carried a film in the five years since Time dubbed her “Queen of the Indies.” But more recently, Posey seems to have turned off the Sundance Channel. The last three years have brought us a comparatively meager batch of five Posey films, in each of which she gives only supporting or cameo roles. © 2002 by Alissa Quart You can read the complete version of this article in the November/December print edition of Film Comment.
