The Searchers (Ford, 1956): Prince Charles Ciunema, 8.45pm
This presentation is on 70mm and has three other screenings in March. Details here.
Chicago Reader review:
We may still be waiting for the Great American Novel, but John Ford gave us the Great American Film in 1956. The Searchers gathers
the deepest concerns of American literature, distilling 200 years of
tradition in a way available only to popular art, and with a beauty
available only to a supreme visual poet like Ford. Through the central
image of the frontier, the meeting point of wilderness and civilization,
Ford explores the divisions of our national character, with its search
for order and its need for violence, its spirit of community and its
quest for independence.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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