Programmed April 2022
Young Mr. Ford
Featuring a new introduction by critic Farran Smith Nehme As Shakespeare was to the British theater, John Ford was to the American cinema, establishing the themes—of heroism, honor, history as myth, and the conflict between the individual and the community—that would come to shape the country’s cultural imagination. This selection of often-overlooked gems from Twentieth Century-Fox—a studio that specialized in the kind of lyrical Americana that was Ford’s forte—traces the evolution of the filmmaker’s style in its formative years, before he was known primarily as a director of westerns. From the masterful interplay of landscape and character in the silent western 3 Bad Men to the the emotional devastation of the powerful post-WWI melodrama Pilgrimage to the gentle humanist comedy of Steamboat Round the Bend , these films show how Ford left an unmistakable imprint on every genre he touched.
14 films
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