Broken Arrow in 35mm Sun, Sep 15 | 7:30pm | DGT
murder of a rancher, sending the denizens of Bridger’s Wells into a frenzy to find those responsible—no matter the moral cost or difficulty—to execute a questionable rule of law. Nominated for Best Picture, Wellman’s film provides a dark testament to hollow authority and a sobering reminder of human cruelty. DIRECTED BY: William A. Wellman. WRITTEN BY: Lamar Trotti. WITH: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes, Anthony Quinn. 1943. 75 min. USA. B&W. English. 35mm. New print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
A master of the genre, director Delmer Daves crafted a sweeping drama centering on the plight of Native Americans under Manifest Destiny’s shadow. Considered one of the first post–World War II Westerns to take a decidedly sympathetic portrayal of this land’s Indigenous people, the film follows Tom Jeffords (James Stewart) as he is pulled into the Apache Wars and finds himself joining the tribe’s fight against the encroaching advances of the United States Army. Nominated for its screenplay, cinematography, and Jeff Chandler’s supporting performance, Daves’s work not only raises critiques of the legacy of American imperialism but also reexamines coexistence over conquest of the landscape. DIRECTED BY: Delmer Daves. WRITTEN BY: Albert Maltz. WITH: James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget, Basil Ruysdael. 1950. 93 min. USA. Technicolor. English. 35mm.
THE WILD BUNCH
The Wild Bunch in 70mm Sun, Oct 13 | 7:30pm | DGT
An elegy to ideas of outlaw culture, Sam Peckinpah’s epic, which received Oscar nominations for Original Screenplay and Score, remains one of the genre’s most controversial and violent landmarks. Its blood-soaked journey tracks a gang of elderly, American gunfighters in 1913 on their way down past the border and into an explosive melee with the Mexican Federal Army. True to Peckinpah tradition, the film doubles down on expectations of the form it works within, notably the rugged individualism and violent scaffolding of traditional Westerns, and twists them into thorny critiques of the genre itself and the violence of a land without laws that it frequently celebrates. DIRECTED BY: Sam Peckinpah. WRITTEN BY: Walon Green, Sam Peckinpah. STORY BY: Walon Green, Roy N. Sickner. WITH: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O’Brien. 1969. 135 min. USA. Technicolor. Scope. English. Rated R. 70mm.
THE LONE RANGER
The Lone Ranger in 35mm Sun, Sep 22 | 7:30pm | DGT Equal parts revisionist Western and meta
commentary, Gore Verbinski’s reimagining of The Lone Ranger turns the beloved franchise inside out to reconsider the very idea of the Western itself. Notable for its massive scale, 2013’s The Lone Ranger returns to the building blocks of the genre, reconsidering everything from the absurdities of law enforcement on stolen land to the atrocities committed against Native Americans, all in an effort to look past American self-mythology to the hard truths it has eclipsed. Nominated for Makeup and Hairstyling and Visual Effects, Verbinski’s ambitious epic looks back to the horizon and questions if it was all worth it. DIRECTED BY: Gore Verbinski. WRITTEN BY: Justin Haythe, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio. WITH: Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, Tom Wilkinson, William Fichtner. 2013. 150 min. USA. Color. Scope. English. Rated PG-13. 35mm. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
The Ox-Bow Incident in 35mm Sun, Sep 29 | 7:30pm | DGT
HEAVEN'S GATE
Heaven’s Gate (Director’s Cut) Sun, Oct 27 | 7:30pm | DGT
In William A. Wellman’s scorching examination of the Western’s soul, The Ox-Bow Incident finds cowboys Gil Carter (Henry Fonda) and Art Croft (Harry Morgan) interrogating the legitimacy of frontier justice in 1885 Nevada. A lynching party is formed after the reported
Director Michael Cimino’s ambitious take on the Johnson County War of the 1890s is a definitive masterpiece of the Western genre. Utilizing an extensive scale to match the landscape it portrays
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