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Directors in Focus: Nicholas Ray - We Can't Go Home Again
Directors in Focus: Nicholas Ray - We Can't Go Home Again
dir. Nicholas Ray and Susan Ray, US, 1976-2011, Blu-ray, 95 mins, color
The most complete, newly restored version of Nicholas Ray's experimental masterpiece, made with his students at the State University of New York at Binghamton, We Can't Go Home Again embodies Ray's approach to filmmaking as a communal way of life. The film records Ray's groundbreaking use of multiple images as a way of telling more than one story simultaneously, and of colorization as a way to heighten emotional expression. He called it a "journalistic" film, one that shares the anthropologists' aim of recording the "history, progress, manners, morals, and mores of everyday life," at a critical moment in American history. Ray plays himself in the film, serving as mentor, friend, and reference point around which the students' stories cluster.
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Nicholas Ray (1911–1979), lived a bold and adventurous life, always searching for a deeper understanding of himself and his world. Leaving the University of Chicago after a year, he made such an impression on his professor, writer Thornton Wilder that Ray was recommended for a scholarship with famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, learning the importance of space and geography, informing his later love for CinemaScope. His career touched every aspect of American culture and included his direction of such classics as They Live by Night, Johnny Guitar, In A Lonely Place and Rebel Without A Cause. When the Hollywood system became too restrictive, Ray exiled himself to Europe, where he lived for 10 years, returning to the States in 1969. In 1977 he came to grips with his alcohol addiction and turned to teaching, which he was quoted as saying was the most fulfilling work of his life, culminating in the film We Can’t Go Home Again.
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Directors in Focus: Nicholas Ray - We Can't Go Home Again
Saturday, July 7 · 1:00PM at International House Philadelphia