Toronto Silent Film Festival: THE WIND (1928) – Presented on 16mm!

Runtime: 76 mins | Release Year: 1928 | Rating: | Genre(s): Drama, Romance, Thriller, Western
Production Country: USA | Original Language: No Language

Showtimes
‣ Friday April 11th @ 06:45 PM

PRESENTED ON 16MM! 

 

Collectors Spotlight: Lou Sabini

 

Accompaniment: William O’Meara

 

The Wind is one of few films that can demonstrate the full power of what silent era films could achieve as an art form-and it came at the very close of that era. Swedish Director Victor Sjöström visually captures the stifling emotional effects of swirling wind torn landscapes encasing and driving the characters (and the audiences) with increasing dread toward inevitable madness.  Lillian Gish, in her final and greatest silent film, quickly latches onto its psycho-erotic undertone in a tour de force performance. Letty is forced to travel from her safe existence in Virginia to the untamed West to start a new life. As she steps off the train, her life and her sanity quickly begins to unravel as she finds herself isolated in a desert wasteland full of leering men, hostile women and a ferocious wind that never stops howling.Shot on location in the Mojave Desert, this masterwork is a harrowing, almost mythical dramatisation of the insidious destructive ways inherent in man and nature. The climactic sandstorm ranks among the most astonishing sequences in all of silent cinema, an expressionistic rampage that spirals into full-on horror. One of the all-time cinematic classics, this is a film of terrible beauty, leaving the viewer haunted by images long after the film fades to black.

 

This film will be presented on 16mm film courtesy of collector/author Lou Sabini

 

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Part of the Toronto Silent Film Festival series!

Cast/Crew Info
Director:
Victor Sjöström | Cast: Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love, Dorothy Cumming, Edward Earle