Capital Celluloid 2018 - Day 268: Fri Oct 5

Autumn Leaves (Aldrich, 1956): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 6.30pm



This film, which is also being shown on September 27th, is part of the Joan Crawford season at BFI Southbank. Full details here.

Chicago Reader review:
Robert Aldrich's 1956 melodrama is a dry run for his later and much more extreme Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Joan Crawford stars as a lonely middle-aged woman who gives in to the advances of a handsome young man (Cliff Robertson), only to discover after their marriage that he isn't all he seems to be. Even in this antipathetic context, Aldrich manages to find room for his characteristic intimations of breakdown and approaching chaos. With Vera Miles and Lorne Greene.
Dave Kehr


Here (and above) is an extract.

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