There Will Be Blood (2007)
ONGOING SERIES OSCAR ® SUNDAYS SUNDAYS | 7:30PM
This ongoing series celebrates films that have been honored at the Academy Awards. This season of Oscar ® Sundays was programmed by Adam Piron, director of the Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program. He writes, “Growing up as a Native American in the Southwest, I always knew I had something of a unique vantage point when it came to watching Westerns. In many ways, it felt like I saw them from behind the projected screen, my perspective inverted from the house audience. With my journey into cinephilia, this was a genre I always wrestled with, appreciating the cinematic beauty and technical mastery found within it while also admittedly unable to fully immerse myself into some of the uglier histories. Still, whenever I see these films, I feel like I’m seeing someplace that’s not too far off from the horizon of where I called home, the land itself a reassuring main character of the genre, its arc found in each film and the history they explored.” Programmed and notes by Adam Piron. Chase is the Presenting Partner of Oscar ® Sundays. Advisory: Some films in this series include racist stereotypes and tropes, including redface.
Stagecoach Sun, Sep 1 | 7:30pm | DGT
Geronimo: An American Legend in 70mm Sun, Sep 8 | 7:30pm | DGT In an expansive account of the Apache Wars, director Walter Hill and screenwriters John Milius and Larry Gross turn to one of the defining chapters of the American Indian Wars. With Wes Studi as the titular Apache military leader, the film looks at the bitter struggle between Geronimo’s tribe battling removal, assimilation, and the United States Army in the effort to maintain their homelands and way of life. Underappreciated upon its release, though it received one Oscar nomination for Sound, the film has since been reappraised for its nuanced approach to the conflicts that scarred the landscape and its original people in the name of Manifest Destiny. DIRECTED BY: Walter Hill. WRITTEN BY: John Milius, Larry Gross. STORY BY: John Milius. WITH: Jason Patric, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Wes Studi. 1993. 115 min. USA. Color. Scope. English. Rated PG-13. 70mm.
John Ford’s landmark Western, his first of many filmed in Monument Valley, has remained one of his most discussed, celebrated, and critiqued works eighty-five years later. The film was nominated for seven Oscars and won for Thomas Mitchell’s supporting performance and the score by Richard Hageman, Frank Harling, John Leipold, and Leo Shuken. With John Wayne’s star turn as the Ringo Kid joining eight other passengers on their intrusion across Apache land, Stagecoach arguably became a major catalyst for a renaissance of the Western film in Hollywood’s classical era and its legacy is widely seen throughout all of cinema. DIRECTED BY: John Ford. WRITTEN BY: Dudley Nichols. WITH: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Andy Devine, John Carradine. 1939. 96 min. USA. B&W. English. DCP.
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