New rendez-vous for MOVING TFF 2013/fiction – Towards New Hollywood, with the film screening of The left handed gun by Arthur Penn.

New rendez-vous for MOVING TFF 2013/fiction – Towards New Hollywood, with the film screening of The left handed gun by Arthur Penn, on Monday 11 November 2013, at 3.30 p.m., in the events room at the Library/Mediatheque. Introduced by Mariella Lazzarin.

Arthur Penn’s directing debut rewrites the myth of Billy the Kid; a commercial disaster in the United States, the film was received well in Europe, especially by French critics.

MOVING TFF is an initiative by National Cinema Museum, Torino Film Festival, UCCA and Arci Torino organised for the occasion of the thirty-first edition of the Torino Film Festival. Within this showcase, the Mario Gromo Library/Mediatheque will organise meetings and screenings in collaboration with the Ultracorpi sperduti nel buio students’ collective.

Arthur Penn

The left handed gun

(USA 1958, 102’, b/w)

William Boney, better known with the nickname of Billy the Kid, becomes a friend of the ”Englishman”, a cattle merchant who soon behaves like a father to him. When the Englishman is murdered by a group of rival cattle merchants led by a corrupt sheriff, Billy decides to avenge him. This sparks off a violent and bloody spiral, which will only cease with the death of Billy the Kid, killed by his former friend Pat Garrett.

Play: Gore Vidal; Screenplay: Leslie Stevens; Photography: J. Peverell Marley; Art direction: Art Loel; Editing: Folmar Blangsted; Music: Alexander Courage; Cast: Paul Newman, Lita Milan, John Dehner, Hurd Hatfield, James Congdon; Production: Harrold Production/Warner Bros.;

Admission free until full capacity is reached, subject to free registration at the Library/Mediatheque and showing an identity document.