The Dryden will screen The Frontier (Oren Shai, U.S. 2015, 88 min., DCP) followed by a discussion with director Oren Shai.

Laine (Jocelin Donahue), a young woman on the run from the law, turns up at the Frontier, an isolated desert motel. She is offered a job by Luanne, the owner, and, hoping to lose herself in the obscurity of the place, accepts it. But soon Laine realizes she has stumbled into an even bigger and more dangerous situation. "Rooted in film history, The Frontier and its characters are inseparable from various stations that informed my love of cinema—falling for Hayley Mills in The Parent Trap, being terrified by Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter, entranced by Renée Jeanne Falconetti in The Passion of Joan of Arc, Louise Brooks in Diary of a Lost Girl, Errol Flynn as Robin Hood, and dazzled by the glorious excess of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. The experience I wanted to create is comparable to that of holding an old paperback novel in your hands—highly stylized, yet gritty, the pages disintegrating in your hands." — Oren Shai

[source: Dryden website, 2015-Aug-3]