Join us for the Roger Ebert's Film Festival!!
Schedule of Events:
6:30 pm: The Searchers
John Ford's "The Searchers" contains scenes of magnificence, and one of John Wayne's best performances. There are shots that are astonishingly beautiful. A cover story inNew Yorkmagazine called it the most influential movie in american history. And yet at its center is a difficult question, because the Wayne character is racist without apology-and so, in a less outspoken way, are the other white characters. Is the film intended to endorse their attitudes, or to dr amatize and regret them? Today we see it through enlightened eyes, but in 1956 many audiences accepted its harsh view of Indians.
