National Building Museum
 

Film Double Feature: The River followed by Wild River
Presented at AFI Silver Theater

Double Feature!
Sunday, May 10, 1:00 pm

THE RIVER

The River poster

Made for the Resettlement Administration (later FSA) in support of Roosevelt’s New Deal, Pare Lorentz’s revolutionary film about the Mississippi River and the good works of the TVA features the poetic visuals of photography and cinematography legends Willard Van Dyke and Oscar winner Floyd Crosby. Along with his previous film, “The Plow That Broke the Plains,” Lorentz’s Depression-era work defined the social documentary for generations to come, contributing to both films’ placement in the Library of Congress National Film Registry of American cinematic treasures.
DIR/SCR Pare Lorentz. US, 1938, b&w, 31 min.

 

 

 

 



Followed by:

WILD RIVER
 
Strange and beautiful! The movie couldn’t have greater present-tense resonance.” –David Denby, The New Yorker

Wild River poster

 

TVA man Montgomery Clift flies to rural Tennessee on a mission: to coax octogenarian Jo Van Fleet to vacate her island homestead in the name of progress and an imminent dam project. In the course of their debate he discovers an unexpected respect for her point of view, and an affinity for her granddaughter Lee Remick. Unappreciated at the time of its release, the film has grown in stature as one of Kazan’s finest. “[A]n important motion picture. In studying a slice of national socioeconomic progress (the Tennessee Valley Authority in the early 1930s) in terms of people (those who enforced and those who resisted), it catches something timeless and essential in the human spirit and shapes it in the American image.” –Variety, 1960
DIR/PROD Elia Kazan; SCR Paul Osborn, based on the novel by William Bradford Huie and Borden Deal. US, 1960, 110 min. NOT RATED

Show times subject to change. Go to AFI.com/Silver to view the complete schedule.

Co-presented by the AFI Silver Theatre and the National Building Museum. Special thanks to the AFI Silver Theatre for its collaboration, including director of programming Todd Hitchcock, and associate programmer Josh Gardner. For more information visit AFI.com/Silver.


Ticket Information:
Free screening. Tickets at the door, day of screening. AFI box office, located at 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, Maryland (opens 30 minutes before the first show of the day). Please note that tickets are not available for purchase through the National Building Museum. Metro: Red Line to Silver Spring.

AFI Members who show their membership card will receive the member rate to National Building Museum exhibitions, including "Designing for Disaster".

Date:
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:20 PM

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