NICHOLAS RAY REDISCOVERED

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Nicholas Ray Rediscovered
Thu, Jan 12 • 7:30pm / Sun, Jan 15 • 2pm

Ten years after leaving Hollywood, director Nicholas Ray took a teaching job in upstate New York. Out of this chapter of his life came the film We Can’t Go Home Again, which has been virtually impossible to see for decades. A newly restored print has finally been created, giving us the opportunity to evaluate a major work. We are pairing it with Don’t Expect Too Much, a fascinating, intimate documentary by Susan Ray, his widow, which investigates how this unique film came to be.

There will be a 10-minute intermission between films.

Events

WE CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN

Jan 12, 2012 8:30pm
Jan 15, 2012 3:00pm

Screening Room

Admission includes both films
By Nicholas Ray
We present a superb restoration of legendary director Nicholas Ray’s (Rebel Without a Cause, In a Lonely Place) until-now-unseen final work, made with his students at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Deeply personal and radically experimental, the film is a meditation on both a divided Vietnam-era America and the artistic process itself. The film records Ray’s groundbreaking use of split-screens and superimpositions as a way of telling more than one story simultaneously, and of colorization as a way to heighten emotional expression. Restored by The Nicholas Ray Foundation with EYE Film Institute Netherlands and the Academy Film Archive. (1972/2011, 94 min, 35mm)

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DON’T EXPECT TOO MUCH

Jan 12, 2012 10:00pm
Jan 15, 2012 4:30pm

Screening Room

Admission includes both films
By Susan Ray
Did Nicholas Ray leave Hollywood, or did Hollywood leave him? What was his intention with the experimental We Can't Go Home Again? Did he lose his way, his talent, his sanity, his common sense? Ray’s wife Susan draws on the director’s archive of never-before-seen film, video, and stills, and searches for answers. Interviews with the original crew, filmmakers Jim Jarmusch and Victor Erice, and many others, show us how this brilliant artist lived, learned, and taught; how he fought and danced with his demons; and how he loved. (2011, 70 min, digital).

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