Film Double Feature: The River followed by Wild River
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Double Feature! THE RIVER 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.
Followed by: WILD RIVER
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 Show times subject to change. Go to AFI.com/Silver to view the complete schedule.
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