20.01.2024 – 29.12.2024
As part of the cycle dedicated to the western of the last six decades, we continue to bring back outstanding titles from the late 1960s and early 1970s, a period that involved profound transformations in the quintessentially American genre. In the next sessions of the cycle, one of the best examples of the revisionist tendency is scheduled (blue soldier) i el weird western L’or de Mackenna. Clint Eastwood's directorial debut can also be seen, key figure in the renewal of the genre and the remake that John Huston filmed of The Outsider (1940) de William Wyler. With the crane, The living ones, an original twilight western in which Robert Altman recreates the birth of organized prostitution in the Far West.
18.06.24 TUESDAY / 20.15 h
20.06.24 THURSDAY / 18.00 h
The gallows judge
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
JOHN HUSTON. USA. 1972. VOS VAL. Color. 120′. Digital HD.
Int. Paul Newman, Roy Jenson, Main Victory, Anthony Perkins, Bennie E. Dobbins, Richard Farnsworth, Jacqueline Bisset, Ava Gardner.
At the end of the 19th century, a bank robber named Roy Bean seeks refuge in a town west of the Pecos River, that marks the limits of civilization in Texas. After suffering a lynching attempt by its inhabitants, will return to take revenge and proclaim himself judge of the place.
