Friday | March 19, 2010 7:00 pm

Stagecoach

Screening on Film

Directed by John Ford.
With John Wayne, Claire Trevor, John Carradine.
US, 1939, 35mm, black & white, 97 min.
Print source: UCLA

Set at the frontier between civilization and wilderness, Stagecoach realizes the Platonic ideal of the classic Western, with a cast comprised of exemplary stock types—the heroic cowboy, the villainous outlaw, the fallen woman with a heart of gold, the brave but fragile wife—and a climax that hangs on a nick-of-time rescue by the cavalry. Stagecoach’s thrilling cinema is born from the alchemy that combines all these elements into a story that provides both variety and closure while assuring a seamless narrative drive. Most surprising are the striking visual touches – the iconic travelling shot that introduces John Wayne’s Ringo, and Ford’s expressionistic use of light.

February 6 – March 29, 2010

Classic Ford.
A John Ford Retrospective, Part I

June 1–July 28, 1999

John Ford:
A Major Retrospective

July 5–October 27

Melville et Cie.

September 6–November 7

Psychedelic Cinema

September 29–December 1

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

October 18–November 3

António Campos and the Promise of Cinema Novo

sepia photo of Artie Freedman in silhouette with a video camera at show

November 8

Boston Punk Rewound / Unbound. The Arthur Freedman Collection

November 9–December 9

The Yugoslav Junction: Film and Internationalism in the SFRY, 1957 – 1988

November 10–24

From the Jenni Olson Queer Film Collection

a mausoleum that looks like a miniature Spanish cathedral, next to a variety of others, against an evening sky

November 11

The Night Watchman by Natalia Almada

a double-exposed image that includes a 16th century Russian man being fed grapes by another amid decadent decor

November 23

Wings of a Serf