Time & Location
15 Nov 2025, 12:00 – 16:00
Bristol Megascreen, Anchor Rd, Bristol BS1 5TT, UK
About the Event
As part of the BFI's Too Much Melodrama season, South West Silents and Film Noir UK are proud to present this very special double bill celebrating the Melodrama Queen of the 1940s, Joan Crawford (1904-1977). This event will consist of classic melodrama and film noir Mildred Pierce (1945) directed byMichael Curtiz and Nicholas Ray's melodrama, noir and western, Johnny Guitar (1954).
Mildred Pierce (1945): Melodrama casts noirish shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from Hollywood master Michael Curtiz. Joan Crawford’s iconic performance as Mildred, a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford’s career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar.
But as Mildred pulls herself up by her bootstraps, first as an unflappable waitress and eventually as the well-heeled owner of a successful restaurant chain, the ingratitude of her materialistic firstborn (a diabolical Ann Blyth) becomes a venomous serpent’s tooth,…