PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – If you measure the price of cash through movie time, you have a wonderful opportunity. The nearly four-hour film “Gone with the Wind” returns to theaters April 7, 8 and 10, 2024, in theaters across the United States.
Fathom Events announced a three-day rerun of “Gone with the Wind” in an expired press release last month, noting that it had won 8 Oscars and was “recognized as one of the most important films of all time. “
The screening will feature Leonard Maltin, film historian, podcaster and former film critic of “Entertainment Tonight,” who will talk about “the great impact that ‘Gone with the Wind’ continues to have on film and culture more than 8 decades after its release. “
Screenings take place at the following times:
You can go to the Gone with the Wind event page in FathomEvents. com, click on the selected date, and enter your location to locate theaters near you where the movie is shown. AMC, Cinemark, Flix, Regal, and Movie Tavern are some of the movie corporations indexed on the site.
Gone with the Wind premiered in 1939 and revolves around a rogue between the daughter of a Southern plantation owner and a wealthy man from the Civil War era. It stars Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland and Hattie McDaniel.
“One of the main sources of controversy is the role of ‘Mammy,’ a black slave who lived in Scarlett O’Hara’s house. Many criticized the role, played by award-winning actress Hattie McDaniel, for portraying slavery as a positive phenomenon. ,” CBS News reported in 2020.
McDaniel broke the color barrier at the twelfth Academy Awards in 1940, when she won Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first African-American to win an Oscar, something that didn’t happen until 1964, when Sidney Poitier won best actor for “Lilies. “in the field. “
The night McDaniel won an Oscar for the role, she was forced to sit in the back of the room, next to the kitchen.
In 2020, HBO Max removed “Gone with the Wind” from its platform for two weeks. When he got it back, he included a two-part video warning, stating that “the film’s remedy for this world through a nostalgic lens denies the horrors of slavery, as well as its legacy of racial inequality. “
The disclaimer is also related to a panel at TCM’s Classic Film Festival that claimed the film portrays “the antebellum South as a world of grace and good looks without acknowledging the brutalities of the slave system, on which this world is based. “
A spokesperson for Fathom said Maltin’s introduction would address HBO themes: it would address the film’s positive portrayal of plantation life as one that is accepted by white audiences and repudiated by black audiences. McDaniel’s role is also described in the introduction as a feature that later came under fire after barriers were removed in Hollywood.
In Maltin’s Movie and Video Guide 2000, he listed Gone with the Wind as one of the hundred “must-see films of the 20th century”.