Tuesday, August 22, 2017
6:30pm-8:00pm

Movie Night At The pearl Double Feature: 
The Plow That Broke The Plains and The River

To coincide with our Rebecca Cole Gallery exhibition, Introducing America to Americans Depression-Era Photographs from Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts will host a double feature movie night showcasing two iconic documentaries by Depression-era filmmaker Pare Lorentz, The Plow That Broke The Plains and The River.

The Plow That Broke The Plains documents the lives of American citizens striving to survive in the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl.

In the documentary, The River, Lorentz and his crew travel down the Mississippi River and record the aftermath of catastrophic floods caused by topsoil erosion. The script for The River was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in poetry.

Ticket Prices
*Museum Members- .25¢
Non-museum Members- $6.50 
​Let us know you're coming!
 Email Kayla@pearlmfa.org if you plan on attending.

About Director Pare Lorentz

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Known as "FDR's filmmaker", Pare Lorentz was the documentarian filmmaker that broke the mold of traditional movies made in the 1930s. Lorentz, with support from Franklin Roosevelt and the US government, was one of the few filmmakers making documentaries about the life of every day Americans living through the Great Depression during a time when Hollywood movie studios ,like MGM and Warner Brothers, were dominating the box office with musicals and comedies. Before becoming a filmmaker, Lorentz was a well known film critic, writing for Vanity Fair, Town and Country and McCall's. An outspoken individual, it has been said of Lorentz that his directness and honesty "got him fired almost as often as he was hired."