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Special Events
Past Special Events
Atonement
Tim Burton
For Your Consideration
Ralph Fiennes
Brokeback Mountain
A Closer Walk
David Cronenberg
Woody Allen
A History of Violence
Tim Burton
Gala Tribute
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Born almost 70 years ago in
Wichita Falls, Texas into a family of cowboys and
ranchers, Larry McMurtry has re-defined our vision
of the American West. In place of the undefined
open spaces and allegorical action of the conventional
western, McMurtry has been giving us a real west,
rooted in the particulars of the landscape and
its people. In place of the mythic narratives familiar
from so many movies and TV shows, he has given
us a new narrative, more earthbound but no less
grand.
McMurtry and his writing partner Diana Ossana will be paying a rare visit to
the Walter Reade to discuss their adaptation of
E. Annie Proulx’s short story Brokeback
Mountain, following
a screening of this highly acclaimed new film. Directed
by Ang Lee and starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal,
Brokeback Mountain is, in McMurtry and
Ossana’s
own words, “a raw, powerful story of two young men,
a Wyoming ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, who meet
in the summer of 1963 sheepherding in the harsh,
high grasslands of contemporary Wyoming and form
an unorthodox yet life-long bond — by turns
ecstatic, bitter and conflicted.”
And to celebrate McMurtry’s visit to our theater, we will also be screening
two of the most celebrated film versions of his novels on December 29:
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