Glasgow Film Festival 2019

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Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid and Midnight Cowboy
Alice’s Restaurant (Country: US; Year: 1969; Director: Arthur Penn; Stars: Arlo Guthrie, Pat Quinn, James Broderick, Woody Guthrie)
A restaurant in Massachusetts run by his friend Alice becomes a place of sanctuary and succour to a man who is trying to stay true to himself, deal with receiving his draft papers and face the slow death of his father.
Bob And Carol And Ted And Alice (Country: US; Year: 1969; Director: Paul Mazursky; Stars: Natalie Wood, Elliott Gould, Dyan Cannon, Robert Culp)
A shy couple vicariously enjoy the exploits of their more sexually adventurous friends, but life becomes more complicated when they are invited to join in.
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (Country: US; Year: 1969; Director: George Roy Hill; Writer: William Goldman; Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Henry Jones, Jeff Corey, George Furth)
The witty exploits of two lovable outlaws who go on the lam in South America.
Easy Rider (Country: US; Year: 1969; Director: Dennis Hopper; Stars: Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson)
Two bikers head on down to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. Roaring down the highway, travelling light and sleeping rough, they encounter the jagged edges of a deeply divided country.
Medium Cool (Country: US; Year: 1969; Director: Haskell Wexler; Stars: Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz)
A news reporter John is assigned to cover the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. He discovers a city in turmoil and an America splintering along lines of race, class and privilege..
The Wild Bunch The Wild Bunch
The Wild Bunch and They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Midnight Cowboy (Country: US; Year: 1969; Director: John Schlesinger; Writer: Waldo Salt, James Leo Herlihy; Stars: Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Sylvia Miles)
A fresh-faced Texan arrives in New York, determined to become the new stud in town. His plan to woo the wealthy ladies of Manhattan is as naive as it is ridiculous but along the way he finds an unlikely ally in a seedy, small time con man who dreams of escaping to Florida.
Sweet Charity (Country: US; Year: 1969; Director: Bob Fosse; Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Sammy Davis Jr, Chita Rivera)
Charity Hope Valentine is a dancer in a Times Square dive, longing for love to come along and sweep her off her feet. When she meets shy Oscar, it feels like the start of something special.
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Country: US; Year: 1969; Director: Sydney Pollack; Writer: James Poe, Robert E Thompson, based on the novel by James McCoy; Stars: Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York, Gig Young, Red Buttons, Bonnie Bedelia, Bruce Dern, Al Lewis)
Depression dance marathon drama.
True Grit (Country: US; Year: 1969; Director: Henry Hathaway; Stars: John Wayne, Kim Darby, Glen Campbell)
Desperate to avenge her father’s murder, headstrong 14-year-old Mattie Ross puts her faith in disreputable US Marshall Cogburn to find the guilty party and ensure that justice is done.
The Wild Bunch (Country: US; Year: 1969; Director: Sam Peckinpah; Writer: Walon Green, Sam Peckinpah, Roy N Sickner; Stars: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Jaime Sanchez, Edmond O’Brien, Emilio Fernandez.), Trailer
A group of ageing outlaws plan one last big score in the dying days of the American West.
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