Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid Format:Blu Ray A PARK BENCH – MID-MORNING

A PARK BENCH – MID-MORNING

Love Letters

filmmaker and scholar Manthia Diawara

son of screenwriters Lester Pine and Tina Pine

Interactive director’s notebook

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid Format:Blu Ray A PARK BENCH – MID-MORNINGSam Peckinpahs cycle of genre redefining westerns came to a close with this blood and dust caked elegy for the American West, which marries his renegade style with a fatalistic sense of finality. As newly minted lawman Pat Garrett (James Coburn) stalks the outlaw Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson) across the plains, their old friendship is twisted into rivalry, and mythic ideals of freedom come up against an emerging ruling class orderall to the