Wild River (Kazan, 1960): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 6.15pm
This film, which also screens on June 7th and 26th, is part of the Wanda and Beyond season at BFI Southbank. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
The Tennessee branch of the Mississippi, that is, where TVA agent
Montgomery Clift is faced with the job of evicting a matriarch (Jo Van
Fleet) from her family island in order to complete a dam project. This
1960 drama is probably Elia Kazan’s finest and deepest film, a
meditation on how the past both inhibits and enriches the present. Lee
Remick costars as Van Fleet’s widowed daughter, giving one of the most
affecting performances of her underrated career. The tone shifts from
hysteria to reverie in the blinking of an eye, but Kazan handles it all
with a sure touch. Scripted by Paul Osborn, and adapted in part from
books by Borden Deal and William Bradford Huie.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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