7 Women

Part of the BAMcinématek series The Late Film

"...John Ford's magnificent last feature is surely one of his greatest—not merely for its unsentimental distillation of Fordian themes, but for the telegraphic urgency and passion of its style..." —The Chicago Reader

Wed, May 13 at 6:50*, 9:30pm
*Cinemachat with film critic and historian Elliott Stein

Directed by John Ford
With Anne Bancroft, Sue Lyon

(1966) 87min

This is the first showing in many years of Ford’s extraordinary last film. In it, he turned to material completely new to him, focusing on feminine characters, with men present only in minor roles. An American mission in Northern China has its serenity shattered by a Mongolian barbarian and his band of cutthroats. Bancroft stars as a doctor whose worldly cynicism brings her into conflict with the mission’s head.

Slant Magazine on 7 Women
"...7 Women is...a great film whose potboiler plot masks an incisive inquiry into the battle of the sexes; it reflects Ford's artistic and ideological maturation and sums up many of his career-long themes within a narrative that transcends its B-movie, role-reversal kookiness." More