Cinematheque: Ford's 7 Women
7 Women (USA, 1966, 35mm, color, 87 min.); Directed by John Ford, with Anne Bancroft, Sue Lyon, Margaret Leighton
Event Details
Date
Friday, March 26, 2010
Time
7:30 p.m.
Location
Cinematheque, room 4070, Vilas Hall
Description
Ford biographer Joseph McBride introduces the director's last film, about a remote mission in China staffed almost entirely by women. Still misunderstood today, 7 Women is a "mordant drama of religious fanaticism, sexual repression, and social breakdown," but it's also "one of Ford's masterpieces... the most provocative of the late films in which Ford undertakes a searching reassessment of his own cinematic mythology" (Joseph McBride, Searching for John Ford).
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