Slideshow
THE WIND
Sunday, March 19
4:45
♪ Live piano accompaniment by Steve Sterner
Jeanne Moreau’s documentary LILLIAN GISH runs May 17-23.
U.S., 1928
Directed by Victor Sjöström
Written by Frances Marion
Based on the novel Dorothy Scarborough
Starring Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love
In English
Approx. 95 min. 35mm.
Shy Virginian Lillian Gish travels West, where she’s taunted by a jealous woman, wooed by an insentient field hand, victimized by a lecherous rogue and tormented by the demonic tempest that relentlessly besieges her tiny cabin. Sjöström’s American masterpiece reaches the expressive heights of silent drama.
Reviews
“Demonstrates such imagination and assurance that it remains completely modern… its climactic sandstorm sequence has to be seen to be believed.”
– Geoff Andrew, Time Out
“No one would deny that THE WIND is a work of art or, after seeing it, cavil much at the opinion of a French critic, who said that Sjostrom was capable of making “the most beautiful films in the world.’”
– Derek Malcolm, The Guardian