Greed

Originally planned to run around 10 hours but hacked to just over 2 by Thalberg's MGM, von Stroheim's greatest film still survives as a true masterpiece of cinema. Even now its relentlessly cynical portrait of physical and moral squalor retains the ability to shock, while the von's obsessive attention to realist detail -both in terms of the San Francisco and Death Valley locations, and the minutely observed characters - is never prosaic. (Time
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The music will be performed by the New Belgian Chamber Orchestra conducted by the composer.