Programme Nine
Sunday 4 October 2009, 12.00
DW Griffith, The Struggle, 1931, 84 min
Griffith’s brutally intense and underrated final feature The Struggle, decried by critics at the time as too 'Soviet', is a straight-up tale of alcoholism and a startling portrait of urban America during the Depression.
With support from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch, and Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies
(CILAVS), Birkbeck, University of London.
Tate Modern
Starr Auditorium
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended
