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The Fountainhead

Screening on Film
Vintage Print
Directed by King Vidor .
With Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey.
US, 1949, 35mm, black & white, 114 min.
Print source: HFA

The most bizarre movie in the careers of both King Vidor and Gary Cooper, The Fountainhead is an adaptation of a novel by Ayn Rand, whose neo-Nietzschian philosophy of "objectivism" deploys expressionist symbolism to articulate her "free enterprise" vision. The central impression of the film is its stylization, through which Vidor captures the New York skyscrapers as if they were extensions of nature.

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