Anthology Film Archives
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Bonnie and Clyde
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Friday Nov 14, 2008
Wednesday Nov 19, 2008
Saturday Nov 22, 2008
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- Price
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$8
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The counterculture reports that rang from Bonnie and Clyde's barrels appealed to disillusioned Americans during both the Great Depression and Vietnam-dominated '60s. In 1967, Arthur Penn immortalized the couple's get-rich-or-die-robbing exploits in his legendary and then-controversial film, Bonnie and Clyde — a classic that also provided a bullet-riddled carte blanche for future New Hollywood mavericks like Scorsese, De Palma, and Coppola. In true star turns, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway personify the hip, antiheroic pair — not technically lovers since Penn stirs the plot by presenting Clyde's sexuality through a Freudian prism. With surprising experimentation, Penn glamorizes their violent, on-the-lam lifestyle, one that culminates in a coup de grâce with folkloric designs.
