SUNDAY APRIL 4 @ 5pm
FILM CLUB IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE QUARTERLY ARTS SOIRÉE PRESENTS: John Ford’s “My Darling Clementine”
The Marlin Room at Webster Hall
Gilberto Perez is a professor of film history at Sarah Lawrence College and the author of “The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium”.
(Director’s pre-release version)
Followed by a discussion with Gilberto Perez
125 East 11th Street (Btwn 3rd & 4th)
Doors open at 4:30
Admission $7
Full Bar Available
BUY TICKETS IN ADVANCE ($.50 surcharge/ticket)
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“My Darling Clementine”(1946, 97 minutes, Dir. John Ford) John Ford’s My Darling Clementine is by any measure one of the most classically perfect Westerns ever made. Henry Fonda plays a hard, serious Wyatt Earp leading a cattle drive west with his brothers when a stopover in the wild town of Tombstone ends in murder. Wyatt takes up the badge and tames the wide-open town with his brothers (Ward Bond and Tim Holt), all the while waiting for the Clantons (led by Walter Brennan’s ruthless Old Man Clanton) to make a wrong move. Victor Mature delivers perhaps his finest performance as the tubercular gambler Doc Holiday, an alcoholic Eastern doctor escaping civilization in the Wild West.
This version is transferred from parts of the original 1946 nitrate print that Ford delivered to Fox. the film was subsequently tightened and later scored by composer Cyril Mockridge. Though the first quarter of the pre-release version no longer exists, these surviving reels contain longer scenes, substantial chunks of additional dialogue, and the director’s original ending.
The Quarterly Art Soirée The mission of the The Quarterly Art Soirée is to exhibit, expose and promote talent in painting, music, film, fashion, theater, graphic design and performance, installation and video art while celebrating the rich cultural history of the Webster Hall venue and of New York City’s dynamic East Village. The QAS seeks to showcase art, fashion and music in a vibrant and unassuming manner so that the art form is not held to the traditional pedestals of the “white-cube” gallery, sleek runway, classic stage and the like. Rather, the prospective spectator may witness the creations as an organic part of a communal environment – where not one thing is set apart from another – and where art may fuse with everyday life. http://theqas.com/