The River

Pare Lorentz

More epic and double the budget of its Plow predecessor, with a surging Virgil Thompson score and lyrical (James Joyce beloved) poetry, Lorentz presents the socio-environmental catastrophe of ‘the greatest river valley in the world’, and New Deal solutions.

Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Sessions

One Screening Only
24 Oct • 21:30 / 141’
Cinemateca Portuguesa - Sala M. Félix Ribeiro

Retrospective Documentary on the March: The Turbulent 30s in New Deal America / A River Runs Through It

The River

Pare Lorentz

Wild River

Elia Kazan