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Thursday, Dec 15, 2016
7 PM (111 mins)
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SUBJECTS
Gone to Earth
(Wild at Heart)
Restored Print
Jennifer Jones, David Farrar, Cyril Cusack, Esmond Knight,
Few films showcase Technicolor’s splendor like this gorgeously engorged adaptation of a Victorian-era bodice-ripper involving a beautiful half-gypsy wildling and the men who lust for her. “The world’s a big spring trap, with us in it,” sighs Hazel (Jennifer Jones) as she spins between a kindly, smitten parson and a leering squire with a twitchy whip hand. “She wanted neither; her passion, no less intense, was for freedom.” Saturated with foreboding, pantheistic imagery, and a Technicolor palette as vivid as its roiling sexual psychoses, Gone to Earth “recalls that other fairy story of innocence and menace, Night of the Hunter” (Time Out).
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Emeric Pressburger
- Michael Powell
Based On
the novel by Mary Webb
Cinematographer
- Christopher Challis
Print Info
- Color
- 35mm
- 111 mins
Source
- Buena Vista/Swank Distribution
CINEFILES
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Matters of life and death : the films of Michael Powell (program note), Cinematheque Ontario/a division of Toronto International Film Festival Group, James Quandt, 2002
A production of the Archers: the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (program note), Film Forum (New York), 1995
Gone to earth (program note), San Francisco International Film Festival, Clyde Jeavons, 1986
The wild heart (program note), Toronto Film Society, Jaan Salk, 1985
Gone to earth (program note), The Museum of Modern Art, New York, William K. Everson, 1980
Gone to earth (program note), London Film Festival, Clyde Jeavons
Gone to earth (program note)
Gone to earth (press kit), William K. Everson
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