Clueless (Cinema Seminars)

Cinema Seminar: “The Art of Costume Design for Film & TV”

Featuring Mona May, costume designer of CLUELESS and author of The Fashion of Clueless; seminar moderated by Anika Lopes, milliner and founder of Ancestral Bridges Foundation.

Film: CLUELESS (dir. Amy Heckerling, 1995)

This program includes the 7pm seminar followed by a screening of CLUELESS at approximately 8pm. Tickets are $13.50 for Amherst Cinema Members, $16.75 for students and seniors, and $18.50 for general admission.

Jane Austen might never have imagined that her 1816 novel Emma could be turned into a fresh and satirical look at ultra-rich teenagers in a Beverly Hills high school.

Cher (Alicia Silverstone) and Dionne (Stacey Dash), both named after "great singers of the past that now do infomercials," are pampered upper-class girls who care less about getting good grades than wearing the right clothes and being as popular as possible.

But Cher, who lives with her tough yet warm-hearted lawyer dad (Dan Hedaya) and hunky, sensitive stepbrother (Paul Rudd), also has an innate urge to help those less fortunate—like the two introverted teachers she brings together ("negotiating" herself improved grades in the process) and new friend Tai (Brittany Murphy), who starts out a geek and ends up a Cher prodigy.