Film Class Calendar, Cameo Cinema
Film Class Calendar
Film Class was created to provide a forum for nurturing a deeper understanding of film culture and to keep the tradition of the film-going experience alive here in the Napa Valley. Film Class is held at the theater each TUESDAY at 1:00 PM.
JUNE FILM CLASS WITH TERENCE FORD
JOHN FORD: Master Filmmaker
"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." -The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
John Ford is regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers during the Golden Age of Hollywood and was one of the first American directors to be recognized as an auter. In a career of more than 50 years, he directed over 130 films between 1917 and 1970 (although most of his silent films are now lost), and received a record four Academy Awards for Best Director for The Informer (1935), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), and The Quiet Man (1952) and two Academy Awards for his WWII documentary work - "The Battle of Midway" (1942) and "December 7" (1943). Ford revolutionized cinema by balancing grand myth-making with intimate portrayals of ordinary people, effectively defining the visual language of the American West. The Harvard Film Archive writes that "the breadth and measure of Ford's major contributions to the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema, and to film language in general, remains somewhat difficult to discern.... Rarely recognized in full are Ford's great achievements as a consummate visual stylist and master storyteller."
JUNE 2
1:00 pm / $10
THE GRAPES OF WRATH
1941 129 min
The Joad clan, introduced to the world in John Steinbeck's iconic novel, is looking for a better life in California. After their drought-ridden farm is seized by the bank, the family -- led by just-paroled son Tom -- joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression. Cast: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine Won 2 Oscars
JUNE 9
1:00 pm / $10
MY DARLING CLEMENTINE
1946 97 min
In the middle of a long cattle drive, Wyatt Earp and his brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find their cattle stolen, and one of the brothers is dead. Earp suspects the Clanton family, owners of the O.K. Corral. Cast: Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature
JUNE 16
1:00 pm / $10
MR. ROBERTS
1955 123 min
In the waning days of World War II, the cargo officer of a Navy supply ship chafes at its role far from the action in the Pacific's backwater areas, his frustration rising when its captain denies the crew liberty over petty irritations. Cast: Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell. Won 1 Oscar
JUNE 23
1:00 pm / $10
THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE
1962 123 min
Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. Cast: James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles
JUNE 301:00 pm / $10
THE SEARCHERS
1956 119 min
During the Texas–Indian wars, an American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm. Cast: John Wayne, Natalie Wood, Vera Miles, Jeffrey Hunter