Song and Solitude 2006, 21 mins, Silent, Color, 16mm, PFA Collection
Threnody 2004, 25 mins, Silent, Color, 16mm, PFA Collection
The Visitation 2012, 18 mins, Silent, Color, 16mm, PFA Collection
Total running time: 64 mins
Wednesday / 6.27.12
Gregory Peck: An Agreeable Gentleman
7:00
Duel in the Sun
King Vidor (U.S., 1946) Restored Print!
Ablaze with Technicolor passions, Duel in the Sun is a delirious testament to inexplicable obsession, both on- and off-screen. Producer David O. Selznick constructed the picture as a shrine—or sacrificial altar—to his personal love idol Jennifer Jones, who stars as sultry “half-breed” Pearl Chavez. Peck is cruelly self-contained and ultimately explosive as Lewt, a rich rancher’s son whose attentions reduce the proud Pearl to a debased creature dragging herself across the (literally) painted desert. Mocked as “Lust in the Dust” and revered by the likes of Martin Scorsese, Duel inhabits a border zone between artistic ambition and exploitation, sleaze and sincere madness. Juliet Clark
Written by David O. Selznick, Oliver H. P. Garrett, suggested by the novel by Niven Busch. Photographed by Lee Garmes, Harold Rosson, Ray Rennahan. With Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotton, Lionel Barrymore, Lillian Gish. (144 mins, Color, 35mm, From Buena Vista)
$5.50 BAM/PFA Members and UC Berkeley, staff, students, and faculty, $6.50 UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, and youth (17 & under), $9.50 Adults (18-64)
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