
Sam Peckinpah's Western screens Friday in honor of the centennial of New Mexico becoming the 47th state in the Union!
1973, Warner Bros., 122 min, USA, Dir: Sam Peckinpah
Director Sam Peckinpah’s take on the famous outlaw’s rise and fall is nothing less than magnificent - a sprawling, plaintive, achingly exquisite reflection on loss of all kinds. Billy (Kris Kristofferson) and his loose-knit gang (among them Bob Dylan, who also supplied the beautiful score) butt heads with cattle industry interests devouring the countryside, something that steers them onto a collision course with old comrade and new sheriff, Pat Garrett (James Coburn). Watch for the "Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door" sequence with Sheriff Baker (Slim Pickens) and his wife (Katy Jurado), one of the most heartbreakingly beautiful women in the history of Western cinema. With Harry Dean Stanton, R.G. Armstrong, Donnie Fritts, L.Q. Jones.
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Discussion following with Peckinpah biographer and documentarian Nick Redman, Peckinpah’s assistant Katy Haber, editor Garth Craven, and actor Charles Martin Smith ("Bowdre" in PAT GARRETT).
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