THE SHOOTING with Monte Hellman Live!

Rated Unknown; 82min; Director:Monte Hellman (1967)  

Location: Alamo Downtown

This show is a part of the Celebrity Guests Signature Series, Click to See More

We are honored to welcome a guest who played a huge role in helping to drag the American movie industry out of the old, bad stagnant period of Hollywood at its worst and into the vibrant, expressive period of the late sixties and early to mid seventies. I suspect we all know Coppola and Altman and Scorsese and Ashby - but there's another towering figure who belongs in that pantheon, and for one night only that man - Monte Hellman - will be here at the Alamo. From his time in the Roger Corman school of film, grinding out films alongside Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Towne, Jack Hill and others, through his first triumphs; the so-called existential westerns RIDE IN THE WHIRLWIND and THE SHOOTING; and through his most highly regarded film - the road movie to end all road movies, TWO LANE BLACKTOP, Hellman was right in the middle of it all with cameras blazing!

Monte Hellman will also be in attendance for a screening of his Road Movie classic TWO LANE BLACKTOP.

Look for the DOUBLE FEATURE ticket price. Only $16 for both films and you can keep your seat for the Weird Wednesday presentation of Monte's BETTER WATCH OUT!

Even though Hellman has only made a dozen or so films, three of them have been westerns. He clearly loves the form, even as he seemingly demolishes it here. A posse consisting of cowboy Warren Oates, mysterious woman Millie Perkins, fashionplate bounty hunter Jack Nicholson and slow-on-the-uptake Will Hutchins track a wanted man through the barren, hostile desert. Each member of the party seemingly has a mysterious motivation, and the audience itself has to remain engaged to understand why. While this narrative strategy was acclaimed as avant-garde by European critics, Hellman later explained that he simply ripped out ten pages of exposition because it slowed things down too much.

Very special thanks to Charles Lieurance of I Luv Video for making this event possible.

Balcony Reservations: The Alamo Ritz has two private balconies which seat up to 4 people per balcony. For more information and reservations, email Balcony@OriginalAlamo.com

Kid Policy: 18 and up; Children 6 and up will be allowed only with a parent or guardian. No children under the age of 6 will be allowed.

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