Weekend Movie Forecast: Amelia Vs. Antichrist

Film Forum's Elia Kazan retrospective wraps up with Wild River, starring Lee Remick and Montgomery Clift as a Depression-era government man trying to get 80-year-old matriarch Jo Van Fleet to vacate her island homestead before the dams flood it. David Denby at the New Yorker calls it "an elegy to pioneer stubbornness. Kazan’s direction is maddeningly deliberate, and some of the staging is stiff, but Lee Remick is extraordinary as the matriarch’s granddaughter, a passionate woman who hurls herself against the anxieties and diffidence of Clift’s official. The movie couldn’t have greater present-tense resonance: how do you get people who loathe the federal government to do what’s good for them when the government recommends it?"