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The Shooting

Director in Person
Screening on Film
$12 Special Event Tickets
Directed by Monte Hellman.
With Millie Perkins, Jack Nicholson, Will Hutchins.
US, 1968, 35mm, color, 82 min.

One of Hellman's undisputed masterpieces, The Shooting is a stark nightmare Western set in a barren desert wasteland and featuring mesmerizing performances by Warren Oates, Jack Nicholson and the alarmingly beautiful Millie Perkins. Expanding the tradition of the taut and minimalist "revolving poker game" narratives defined in the late studio Westerns of Budd Boetticher and Anthony Mann, The Shooting goes even further by embracing a gothic abstraction of story that transforms its characters into mysterious woodcut emblems of fate and human destiny. The script by legendary screenwriter Carole Eastman (Five Easy Pieces, Puzzle of a Downfall Child) brings a cryptic feminist dimension to the film. – HG

00:00 / 00:00
      The Shooting introduction and post-screening discussion with Haden Guest and Monte Hellman.

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