Sands Films Featured Events – 15th to 21st April
WISE16 features selected events from Sands Films extensive programme of films, theatre and talks
Tuesday 16 April
Cinema Club | The Best Years of Our Lives | William Tyler | 1946 | 180 minutes | Free
Free, booking required. Click here tor reserve your tickets
Written by Robert E. Sherwood from MacKinlay Kantor’s blank-verse novella, Glory for Me, The Best Years of Our Lives is William Wyler’s finest, most moving film, the one most infused with his humane sensibility and least compromised by melodrama.
It essays the civilian readjustment of three soldiers upon their return home to Boone City somewhere in the corn belt. Their paths never crossed before the war, but they become friends on their flight back in a military transport.
The supernally clear deep focus that cinematographer Gregg Toland helped Wyler achieve suggests that the present contains a vision of the future. However, the most brilliant passage, in an airfield of retired B-52 bombers, finds Fred wandering into his recent past. Oscars for best picture, direction, screenplay.
About Sands Films
An independent film production facility operating in an 18th century listed building in Rotherhithe since 1975. In addition to the studio facilities and the costume service, the venue is home to the Rotherhithe Picture Research Library; it can also be hire for private or public events
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