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Collage of five diverse artworks from the Hammer Museum Collections side by side. From left to right: 1) Contemporary painting of two embracing figures with surreal elements. 2) Post-impressionist style painting of trees with vibrant blues and greens. 3) Black and white illustration of a face with intricate patterns. 4) Japanese woodblock print style image of a figure in a checkered robe. 5) Photograph of a couple dancing, the woman in a black dress and the man in white

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Still from the film "The Searchers" (1956)
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Part of the series Can’t Get That Monster Out of My Mind: Joan Didion and Cinema

The Searchers

TUE NOV 15, 7:30 PM

Copresented by the Hammer Museum and the UCLA Film & Television Archive

Visit the exhibition Joan Didion: What She Means before the film.  Galleries will be open until 7:30 p.m.

“When John Wayne rode through my childhood, and perhaps through yours,” wrote Joan Didion, “he determined forever the shape of certain of our dreams.” Hers was a profile of a complicated icon. Wayne’s turn in The Searchers as a Civil War veteran determined to exact revenge upon the Comanche tribe that murdered his family and abducted his niece is arguably the finest of his career, the keystone of director John Ford’s inquiry into the psychosis of American racism.

(1956, dir. John Ford, 35mm, color, 119 min.)

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