We Can't Go Home Again

We Can't Go Home Again is an experimental feature film directed by Nicholas Ray in collaboration with his film students at SUNY Binghamton. Ray and the students play fictionalized versions of themselves. The film was the major project of the last decade of Ray's life, and he and his collaborators continuously re-edited it. Rough versions of the film were screened at festivals as early as 1972 (including a Cannes premiere in 1973), and the most well-known cut was completed in 1976. Ray was still making alterations to it at the time of his death in 1979. In 1971, Nicholas Ray received an invitation to lecture at SUNY Binghamton's Harpur College, which had at the time just established a film department. This led to Ray being offered...