Costume Party: Seduction, Anarchy and Lina Wertmüller

This month marked the much-anticipated reopening of Quad Cinema, a New York cinephile institution. The embarrassment of riches in their inaugural slate of programming features a retrospective of Lina Wertmüller, the Italian director best known for her 70s films like Swept Away and Seven Beauties. Wertmüller’s films deal in political and sexual provocation, shot through with a dry, often difficult-to-read sense of humor. For many years, due to the mysterious ebb and flow of cinema