Saturday | February 22, 2014 9:00 pm

Blood on the Moon

Screening on Film

Directed by Robert Wise.
With Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston.
US, 1948, 35mm, black & white, 88 min.
Print source: Warner Bros.

Robert Wise’s Blood on the Moon, notes Melvin Carter, is “a Western for adults” predating Anthony Mann’s masterpieces, Devil’s Doorway (1950) and Winchester ’73 (1950), and his subsequent films built around charmingly evil personages. As he was in Pursued, Robert Mitchum as Jim Garry is in a welter of conflict in which deceivers become caught in the webbings of their desires.

February 14 – March 22, 2014

Fortunes of the Western

August 21–October 19

The Cold Heart is More Precious than Diamonds. The Cinema of Graham Greene

September 11–October 30

João César Monteiro, Poet-Provocateur

September 18–November 15

Marie Antoinette and Friends, Three Films by Sofia Coppola

September 19–December 12

Nostalgia, A Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque Program

September 27–28

The Adventures of Lotte Reiniger

October 2–18

The Human Condition

October 23–November 20

Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945 – 1960

November 6–9

Visions of a City, Or A Weekend in San Francisco

November 21–December 14

Once There Was History ... Andrzej Wajda at 100