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Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway seem within the promo photograph for the 1967 movie Bonnie and Clyde.
Arthur Penn’s still-visceral and lacerating story of doomed love and homicide, Bonnie and Clyde, actually modified the films by breaking the Hayes Code — the repressive Catholic film censorship system that after prohibited American studio movies from exhibiting intercourse, graphic violence and different “immoral content material.”
Now, Texas Public Radio is screening Bonnie and Clyde on Tuesday, June 18, as a part of the group’s Cinema Tuesdays collection. And the movie nonetheless stings 57 years later.
Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway have by no means regarded extra stunning and elusive, and Gene Hackman is great in a supporting function, etching the flinty, brusque power he would carry like an ember for the following 30-plus years.
Penn was influenced by the French New Wave cinema motion, and you may really feel insouciant power coursing by means of the movie. This isn’t a normal crime-doesn’t-play Hollywood movie however somewhat a crime-is-life existential odyssey.
It’s a piquant reminder of the sorts of flicks Hollywood might make when filmmakers had guts and the folks with the purse strings truly favored the cinema.
$12-$17, 7:30 p.m. Monday, June 17, Santikos Leisure Northwest, 7600 I-10, (877) 691-0734, santikos.com. Subscribe to SA Present newsletters.
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