Wild River

90/100 Yet another case of my being gobsmacked by a film that made little impression on me when I first watched it nearly 20 years ago. Its multivalent view of progress—at once necessary and destructive, to be celebrated and deplored in equal measure—feels almost heroic…

Mike D'Angelo

Wild River is a film that blends the lyrical romanticism of John Ford with the nature poetry of Robert Flaherty. Elia Kazan returns to set one of his films in the South of the United States, although this once he goes back in time to the quiet, rolling landscapes of the…

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he looks smaller than i thought. I’ve been putting this film off for a year or two now and thanks to Marie’s review, I finally got around to watching it. Starts with Clift’s bureaucrat, who thinks he can fix everything just by talking... a perfect contrast to the tough Jo…

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Southern melodrama meets social psychology in Elia Kazan’s “Wild River.”  Starring Montgomery Clift as a government official tasked with removing a stubborn plantation owner from land slated to be flooded in a river damming, the film imbues one of Kazan’s archetypical Good…

theriverjordan

#my 1000th film Kazan at his most heartfelt. If Wild River is about the Tennessee River flooding the long-time inhabitants' properties and thereby their lives, then Mongomery Clift is the tame stream who, although he must carry the water to the same destination,…

Lara Pop

Este filme devia simplesmente contar a minha história de amor com o New Deal, a minha história de amor com as regiões mais remotas deste país, eu queria dizer como os amava e como os admirava. - Elia Kazan Aquarius feito por um cineasta.

Bruno Andrade

Kazan Knows Drama. ”Now, if you don’t give it to me I’m afraid I’m gonna have to take it away from you.” “You may have some trouble” The entire time I was watching this movie I kept thinking of Harry R. Truman, the 83 year old innkeeper who refused to evacuate Mount…

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In 30s Tennessee, an official (Montgomery Clift) is sent to purchase land for a hydroelectric dam that would mean uprooting a whole community, having to deal with both community hostility and an old woman (Jo Van Fleet) refusing to leave her ancestral home, in Elia Kazan’s…

Josh Gillam

Kazan is still a masterful actor's director, particularly in orienting post-crash Montgomery Clift to emphasize rather than obscure his alien, detached quality as the embodiment of well-meaning federal liberalism arriving in rural Tennessee like a benevolent alien invader,…

Jake Cole