Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Dir: George Roy Hill
USA, 1969, English, 110mins, DCP
Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross
Pairing two of Hollywood’s most charismatic stars to magical effect, this thoroughly modern blockbuster, brimming with thrilling chases, amusing dialogues, and brotherly romance, remains one of the most entertaining Westerns of all time. Establishing Newman’s Butch Cassidy as a quickwitted outlaw, contrasting nicely with Redford’s Sundance Kid as a taciturn sharpshooter, George Roy Hill breaks the Western mold, taking their rise and fall as a sort of alternatively absurd and dreamy saga. With Ross at the centre of a love triangle between friends, it revivifies the old Hollywood craft with a breeze of the French New Wave of Jules and Jim , made all the more fascinating with the jaunty Oscar-winning song Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head.
Academy Awards: Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score and Best Original Song
9/11 (Sat): Film talk with David Chan
EMP Cinemas iSQUARE (Venue)
EMP Cinemas Times Square (Venue)
Chinese Subtitles
Post-screening talk
