Film for Thought – 19th July 2017 at 6.30 pm – Screening of ‘How Green Was my Valley’ at Sunaparanta
This Wednesday, 19th July ’17 at 6.30 pm, Sunaparanta will host the screening of ‘How Green Was My Valley’ at the Centre’s indoor gallery.
Film: How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Run-Time: 118 mins
Director: John Ford
Cast: Roddy McDowall, Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Donald Crisp, and Sara Allgood
About the Film:
Time has not been kind to John Ford's Oscar winning classic. Often seen as the film that beat Orson Welles' Citizen Kane at the 1942 Oscars, people have forgotten that the film is a fine portrait of childhood, family, love and friendship in a Welsh mining village. One can't help but see the similarities in Satyajit Ray's masterful Pather Panchali released 14 years later. Seen through the eyes of a small boy, both capture the rhythms of daily life, the ups and downs of a poor village family with its major heartaches and minor triumphs.
