Bonnie & Clyde
(1967; screens Thursday at 4:45 p.m.)
Burlesque segues to horror in Arthur Penn's film about Clyde Barrow (Warren
Beatty) and Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway), the Depression bank robbers who
enjoyed a scandalous popularity. Thirty years later Bonnie and Clyde are
prescient foreshadows of media-obsessed gangsta types. With its charismatic
supporting cast -- Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Gene Wilder, Michael J.
Pollard -- this could well be the best movie made by an American in the
'60s.
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