“Erica Beckman makes films that are playful in the most literal sense. Brightly colored and cheerfully self-absorbed, they take their structure, rhythm, and imagery from games. You the Better, scandal of the 1983 New York Film Festival, was an inexplicable contest—half dodgeball, half roulette—staged inside an abstract slot machine. Although her new Cinderella (at the Kitchen this Saturday night along with the Bette Gordon sequence from a seven-director anthology, The Seven Deadly Sins) is somewhat more narrative, it still owes as much to pinball as Perrault.”
