The Dryden will screen Our Town (Sam Wood, U.S. 1940, 90 min., 35mm) with an introduction by author David Bordwell as part of the Reinventing Hollywood series.

Thornton Wilder's classic American play comes to the silver screen with a young William Holden as George Gibbs and Martha Scott in an Oscar-nominated performance as Emily Webb. The story takes place over four days in three different years as sweethearts George and Emily grow together, begin their relationship, and deal with all the hardships life has to offer. Already a progressive stage play, the film uses some of these newer stage techniques, adapts them to the big screen, and adds voice-over, flashback, hallucinatory imagery, and direct-address to help to tell the cinematic story.

[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2018-Sep-10]