HippFest 2024 concludes with the world premiere of the prestigious new restoration of one of cinema’s greatest achievements.
Screen legend Lillian Gish is Letty, a sweet-natured young woman who tries to start a new life with her cousin in the desolate and unforgiving landscape of West Texas. There she is met with hostility by her cousin’s hard-edged wife, and the brutal indifference of Nature itself. Containing many elements central to the Western – the settlers’ struggle, harsh frontier surroundings, lawlessness, honour and self-determination – this is ultimately a stirring psychological study of one woman at odds with the world she finds herself in.
**Content warning: themes of sexual violence**
Dir. Victor Sjöström | US | 1928 | N/C 12A | 1h 35m (TBC)
With: Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love, Dorothy Cumming
Performing live: Stephen Horne (piano) and Frank Bockius (percussion)
Online programme notes and in-person introduction by Bryony Dixon, Curator of Silent Film, BFI National Archive
Restored by The Museum of Modern Art with support from the Celeste Bartos Fund for Film Preservation.
