Welcome to all who long to see the best, classic, most unusual films in a REAL cinema. NOT today’s blockbusters. Great directors from any decade. Proper cinema screen with top-quality projection at the Wells Film Centre. Monday and Tuesday evenings (YOU choose which) every 4 weeks throughout the year. See what you’ve already missed!
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Next film: Mon-Tues 23-24 Aug
Site updated: 27 July 2010
What’s it about?
An unusally intelligent Western, raising moral questions and offering damning parallels with the Vietnam war.
Burt Lancaster plays a weary and cynical scout, in opposition to a young and rigidly Christian officer, in their joint pursuit of a gang of renegade Apaches.
What some have said
VFG: “poses a complex series of questions about the nature of heroism, racism, and American imperialism ...”
TOFG: “Sharp's marvellous script elucidates the issues and psychological causes of racial warfare ...”
Some on-line reviews: IMDB, Wikipedia.
Many awards and great commercial success in the USA.
(TOFG, VFG, 1001, EFG, H1000, RT, BN100, DP, NYFCC, DT, ...? What do these acronyms mean?)
