Sounder (1972) Direction: Martin Ritt Cast: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Carmen Mathews, Taj Mahal, James Best Screenplay: Lonne Elder III; from William H. Armstrong's book Oscar Movies Paul Winfield, Sounder, Kevin Hooks, Sounder Sounder probably features more extremely wide shots than any movie besides Lawrence of Arabia — and Martin Ritt's movie is only half as long. Time and again, humans become antish dots on the horizon, visually overwhelmed by the vast wilderness around them. That's Ritt's way of establishing the world of David (Kevin Hooks), a young boy living in the Louisiana woods with his sharecropper family and the titular dog during the Great Depression. That world completely envelops him in these shots, which perform the old pastoral trick of contrasting the human and temporary and insignificant with the eternal realm of nature. Ritt, however, sets that up in order to subvert it. Ultimately, the boy must...
- 2/9/2011
- by Dan Erdman
- Alt Film Guide
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