JAN 25 · FILMMAKER Q&A
Thieves Like Us
A film by Robert Altman
w/ Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, John Schuck
Rated R
2hr 3min
FEATURING Q&A with SCREENWRITER JOAN TEWKESBURY
Set in the Depression-era South, three escaped convicts embark on a string of small-town bank robberies. Bowie, the youngest of the group, falls in love with Keechie, the daughter of a gas station owner who helps hide the men. As the gang’s criminal lifestyle becomes increasingly dangerous and the law closes in, Bowie and Keechie struggle to maintain their romance against the backdrop of their inevitable fate.Altman, revisiting territories already familiar from his McCabe & Mrs Miller, here uses the past – this time the Great Depression – as a prism to America’s present, while finding warts-and-all sympathy for the nation’s marginalized outlaws.
Anton Bitel
Little White Lies
JAN 25 · FILMMAKER Q&A
Thieves Like Us
A film by Robert Altman
w/ Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, John Schuck
Rated R
2hr 3min
FEATURING Q&A with SCREENWRITER JOAN TEWKESBURY
Set in the Depression-era South, three escaped convicts embark on a string of small-town bank robberies. Bowie, the youngest of the group, falls in love with Keechie, the daughter of a gas station owner who helps hide the men. As the gang’s criminal lifestyle becomes increasingly dangerous and the law closes in, Bowie and Keechie struggle to maintain their romance against the backdrop of their inevitable fate.Altman, revisiting territories already familiar from his McCabe & Mrs Miller, here uses the past – this time the Great Depression – as a prism to America’s present, while finding warts-and-all sympathy for the nation’s marginalized outlaws.
Anton Bitel
Little White Lies
