Jeremiah Johnson

Friday, December 6 - Sunday, December 8, 2013

35mm print

“[An] immensely appealing film adapted in part from Vardis Fisher’s Mountain Man, a superb historical novel which explores the myth and the reality of the tough trappers who roamed the unconquered West in the 1850s. Shot on location in fantastically beautiful, desolate snowscapes in Utah, the first part of the film is terrific: tenderfoot Redford’s first, baffled steps in the battle for survival; the weird encounter with a corpse frozen upright in the snow which provides him with his first real gun; the old man of the mountains who takes time out from hunting grizzlies to teach him how to fish, trap beaver, tell one Indian from another, and stay alive… towards the end the Indians, half-worshipping and half-contemptuous, begin their hunt for the strange white man who has broken their taboos and disappeared into the snows – the legend of the West in the making.” – Time Out (London)

• Rating PG
• Year 1972
• Running Time 108 minutes
• Director Sydney Pollack

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