Films at High Noon: The Cowboys Discussions will follow film screenings. (1972, Mark Rydell, 134 min., Rated PG) Please Note: For R-rated films, anyone under 17 Saturday, November 14, 12 P.M. must be accompanied by an adult. Aims Community College, Ed Beatty Hall Theater, #102 Discussion Leader: Greg Driskill Thank you to the following for making this film festival possible:
A cattle drive being led by eleven kids? Only the Duke could head up this team. With Bruce Dern as a disturbed cattle rustler and Roscoe Lee Browne as the mysterious cook, this ensemble film is one of John Wayne’s more interesting late Westerns.
Evening at the Kress film festival Saturday, November 14 - The Kress Cinema & Lounge g re ado 6 P.M. - Wrap-Up Party eley, color 7 P.M. - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, George Roy Hill, 110 min., Rated PG) Discussion Leader: Bob Kahn
Released in 1969, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid resonated with MyLibrary.us 1.888.861.READ(7323) November 9-14, 2015 audiences divided by the war in Vietnam. The country was looking for new heroes and they found them in the well-matched acting talents of Paul Newman, Robert Redford and Katharine Ross. This classic western is also graced with an unforgettable soundtrack.
Celebrating the spirit of the American West through classic and contemporary film.
Schedule and
Event Locations: film selections Aims Community College Ed Beatty Hall Theater, Room 102, 5401 W. 20th Street, Greeley
Centennial Park Library 2227 23rd Avenue, Greeley
Farr Regional Library 1939 61st Avenue, Greeley
The Kress Cinema & Lounge 817 8th Avenue, Greeley
University of Northern Colorado Michener Library, Lindou Auditorium, 1400 22nd Street, Greeley All events are free and open to the public. Films at High Noon: Slow West Evening at the Kress Evening at UNC (2015, John Maclean, 84 min., Rated R) Tuesday, November 10 - The Kress Cinema & Lounge Thursday, November 12 - UNC Michener Library, Lindou Auditorium Monday, November 9, 12 P.M. 6 P.M. - Doors open 7 P.M. - Hanna Ranch Centennial Park Library 7 P.M. - Reel Injun (2014, Mitch Dickman, 73 min., Not Rated) Discussion Leader: Margaret Thompson (2010, Neil Diamond, 85 min., Not Rated) Discussion Leaders: International Film Series Students Discussion Leader: Sarah Cornish Q&A with Director, Mitch Dickman Filmed in New Zealand, Slow West is set in 19th Century Colorado, a land of wandering European immigrants and savagely mistreated Native Reel Injun explores over 100 years of Hollywood portrayals of Native Documentary about visionary Kirk Hanna, a Colorado rancher who Americans. It is here that a naive 16-year-old Scottish boy, searching for his Americans. Featuring interviews by Clint Eastwood, Jim Jarmusch, fought for environmentally-sustainable ranching practices. Hanna’s lost love, saddles up with a world-weary guide, expertly played by Michael Sacheen Littlefeather, Adam Beach, and Graham Greene, among passionate struggle to preserve and balance environmentally sound and Fassbender. others, this documentary will provoke, incite, and inspire important traditional ways of ranching in the face of encroaching development and discussion about the dynamics of cinematic mythmaking and problematic land misuse will evoke important conversation. Q&A with filmmaker representations of Native Americans in film. Mitch Dickman follows the screening. Evening at the Kress Monday, November 9 - The Kress Cinema & Lounge 6 P.M. - Kick-Off Party with light reception Evening at the Kress Films at High Noon: Unforgiven 7 P.M. - Stagecoach Wednesday, November 11 - The Kress Cinema & Lounge (1992, Clint Eastwood, 131 min., Rated R) (1939, John Ford, 96 min., Not Rated) 6 P.M. - Music by western music performer Ray Delgado Friday, November 13, 12 P.M. - Farr Regional Library Discussion Leaders: David Caldwell and Ron Edgerton 7 P.M. - King of the Cowboys Discussion Leader: Stacey Campbell (1943, Joseph Kane, 67 min., Not Rated) They say you never really get to know people until you travel with them. Discussion Leader: Ron Edgerton William Munny (Clint Eastwood, acting & directing) is a retired outlaw Catch a ride on director John Ford’s iconic Stagecoach and find out why. who has started over. Recently widowed, he struggles to raise his two Alas, hostile Indians don’t help matters, either. John Wayne, in his first big Celebrate Veterans Day with live music and a movie! Relax as local children and is lured back into his past for one last paying job. The result role, takes all the bumps in stride. musician Ray Delgado entertains us with a selection of western favorites. is violence that impacts everyone around him, including his own soul. Then sit back and enjoy King of the Cowboys, starring Roy Rogers and his horse Trigger, true-blue patriots who team up to thwart the efforts of a Films at High Noon: For a Few Dollars More band of WWII saboteurs. We will have door prizes to honor veterans. Evening at UNC (1965, Sergio Leone, 132 min., Rated R) Friday, November 13 - UNC Michener Library, Lindou Auditorium Tuesday, November 10, 12 P.M. 7 P.M. - A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Centennial Park Library Films at High Noon: Brokeback Mountain (2014, Ana Lily Amirpour, 101 min., Not Rated) Discussion Leader: Rob Walker (2005, Ang Lee, 134 min., Rated R) Discussion Leaders: Cruel April and International Film Series Students Thursday, November 12, 12 P.M. In this second entry in Sergio Leone’s “Dollars Trilogy,” bounty hunter Centennial Park Library Turning a few western tropes on its head, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Manco (Clint Eastwood) partners with Col. Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef) Discussion Leader: David Caldwell is an atmospheric cross between Let the Right One In and The Last Picture to infiltrate the gang of homicidal bandit, Indio (Gian Maria Volonte). Show. Replacing the Stetson with a billowing chadoor, “The Girl with No Outstanding cinematography and brilliant score add to what is already one Based on a story by Annie Proulx, Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain set new Name” skateboards through a desolate landscape instituting a singular code of the best Spaghetti Westerns ever made. standards for depicting the beauty and harshness of the American West. of honor, giving this alt-western a terrific feminist twist. Those extremes also exist in the relationship between Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, who utters to his partner the now-famous line, “I wish I knew how to quit you.”