Saddle Up Saturdays with Jonathan Demme
Nov. 12–Mar. 25, 2017
Saddle Up Saturdays Is Back! Hosted by Jonathan Demme.
Jonathan Demme will appear at select screenings, subject to availability.
The Wild Bunch (Director's Cut)
July 20–25, 2019
“Arguably the strongest Hollywood movie of the 1960s—a western that galvanizes the clichés of its dying genre with a shocking…
Shane
Dec. 3, 2017
With its sweeping landscapes, brilliant sunshine, and violent storms, Shane is an intelligent, compelling story and a true visual treat…
Stagecoach
Mar. 25, 2017
Others may have come first, but John Ford’s Stagecoach put Westerns—and John Wayne, in his breakout role as the Ringo…
Seven Samurai & The Magnificent Seven
Mar. 11, 2017
Double Feature! Clear your schedule and get ready for a day at the movies—and some of the best fight sequences…
Bad Day at Black Rock
Mar. 4, 2017
Spencer Tracy received his fifth Oscar nomination, thanks to this “modern-day” Western, for his portrayal of a one-armed stranger who…
The Ox-Bow Incident
Feb. 25, 2017
When a posse of citizens from a small western town catches up with a group of three men they suspect…
The Naked Spur
Feb. 18, 2017
In his third Western with Anthony Mann, James Stewart plays Howard Kemp, a bounty hunter tracking down killer Ben Vandergroat…
Meek's Cutoff
Feb. 11, 2017
Q&A Kelly Reichardt with Jonathan Demme
While assembling the line-up for season 2 of Saddle Up Saturdays, no title excited me more than Meek’s Cutoff, directed…
One-Eyed Jacks
Feb. 4, 2017
In his first and only film as a director (taking over for Stanley Kubrick), Marlon Brando also stars as Rio,…
Yojimbo & For a Few Dollars More
Jan. 28, 2017
Double Feature! “I’d like to be able to make a Western like Kurosawa makes Westerns,” director Sam Peckinpah once said,…
Rio Bravo
Jan. 21, 2017
Sheriff John Wayne desperately needs help to prevent a well-connected thug from getting out of jail, but he’s got only…
Run of the Arrow
Jan. 14, 2017
Q&A Kandia Crazy Horse
Starring Rod Steiger, Brian Keith, Ralph Meeker, and a young Charles Bronson, Run of the Arrow is about a Confederate…
Colorado Territory
Jan. 7, 2017
Director Raoul Walsh reworks his 1941 crime drama High Sierra (Humphrey Bogart’s breakthrough) in Colorado Territory, recasting it with Joel…
Rancho Notorious
Dec. 10, 2016
Marlene Dietrich in a Western? She’s the former dancehall queen Altar Keane, who presides over Chuck-a-Luck, which looks like a…
Ride Lonesome
Nov. 26, 2016
Originally dismissed as a B movie, Budd Boetticher’s Ride Lonesome is now considered a classic, and for good reason. Tautly…
Welcome to Hard Times
Nov. 19, 2016
In its review of E. L. Doctorow’s debut novel, Welcome to Hard Times, the basis for this 1960s revisionist Western,…
The Searchers
Nov. 12, 2016
We start off with John Ford’s inimitable 1956 tale of a driven Civil War vet (John Wayne, in one of…
Ride the High Country
June 11, 2016
Maybe my most favorite of all westerns, Sam Peckinpah’s devastating threnody for gun-fighters, Ride the High Country, starring the incomparable…
El Dorado
June 4, 2016
Howard Hawks, another great genius of film, made El Dorado in his later years, and it is a delight to…
Seven Men From Now
May 28, 2016
Budd Boetticher made brilliant “little” westerns better than just about anyone. Seven Men From Now is just one in an…
Once Upon a Time in the West
May 21, 2016
Sergio Leone’s Once Upon A Time in the West is of course justly held by many aficionados as the “ultimate”…
Forty Guns
May 14, 2016
“Offers the anticipated measures of doomed love and sudden death but surprises with its dramatic richness.” (New Yorker) Barbara Stanwyck…
Westward the Women
Apr. 30, 2016
Presented in 35mm Roy Whitman (John McIntire) hatches a plan to expand his town by bringing 100 marriageable women from…
Tears of the Black Tiger
Apr. 23, 2016
Presented in 35mm Tears of the Black Tiger is a Thai western following the journey of Dum (Chartchai Ngamsan). A poor boy…
Rosewood
Apr. 16, 2016
Presented in 35mm Rosewood is the story of a small, mostly black, middle-class town in Florida during the 1920s. On…
Escape From Fort Bravo
Apr. 9, 2016
William Holden plays Captain Roper, the warden of a Union-run prison camp. A mysterious woman named Carla Forester (Eleanor Parker) arrives…
The Shooting & Ride in the Whirlwind
Apr. 2, 2016
Jack Nicholson Double Feature!
“In July of 1964, director Monte Hellman and actor Jack Nicholson went to the Philippines to shoot two war movies back…
The Law and Jake Wade
Mar. 26, 2016
Presented in 35mm Former outlaw Jake Wade (played by Robert Taylor) is now a reformed town sheriff attempting to live…
Utu Redux
Mar. 19, 2016
Te Wheke (Anzac Wallace) is a Maori captain serving in the British army during the New Zealand Wars. When he comes…
3:10 to Yuma
Mar. 12, 2016
“Mangold delivers a taut modern take on a lesser classic, preserving the High Noon themes about doing the right thing…
Johnny Guitar
Mar. 5, 2016
“One of those classic westerns that has maintained its status by reinventing itself every decade since its release in 1954.”…
Shanghai Noon
Feb. 27, 2016
Presented in 35mm “Shanghai Noon is, in classic western tradition, a celebration of male bonding, unabashedly juvenile, boyishly risque and…
Man of the West
Feb. 20, 2016
Presented in 35mm A former outlaw named Link Jones (Gary Cooper) intervenes when the train he is on is robbed.…
The Scalphunters
Feb. 13, 2016
“Working on several levels, the film is entertaining as an outdoor adventure, a study in character and a movie with…
Major Dundee
Feb. 6, 2016
Charlton Heston stars as the titular Major Dundee, a former Union cavalry officer now charged with overseeing a prisoner-of-war camp…
