With its bi-monthly members-only Film Appreciation Night Series, the Bosque Film Society presents George Roy Hill’s American western BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID June 7 at The Cliftex in Clifton

By BRETT VOSS

Bosque Film Society Founding Board President

For its fifth 2022 film series presentation, the Bosque Film Society cordially invites all members to attend its members-only FILM APPRECIATION NIGHT featuring 1969 American Western favorite “BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID” Tuesday, June 14 at 6:30 p.m. with an introduction from BFS founding board treasurer Miriam Wallace at the historic CLIFTEX Theatre.

Directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is based loosely on fact, telling the story of Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, known as Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman), and his partner Harry Longabaugh, the “Sundance Kid” (Robert Redford), who are on the run from a crack U.S. posse after a string of train robberies. The pair and Sundance’s lover, Etta Place (Katharine Ross), flee to Bolivia to escape the posse.

In 2003, the film was selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” The American Film Institute ranked Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as the 73rd-greatest American film on its “AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)” list. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was selected by the American Film Institute as the 7th-greatest Western of all time in the AFI’s 10 Top 10 list in 2008.

The FILM APPRECIATION NIGHT SERIES represents one of the two film series the Bosque Film Society offers its members every month, presenting free classic movies.

Upcoming ARTHOUSE FILM NIGHT presentations will include:

July 12 — The Seventh Seal (1957);

Sept. 13 — Dr. Strangelove (1964);

Nov. 8 – Day for Night (1973).

Upcoming FILM APPRECIATION NIGHT presentations will include:

Aug. 9 — All That Jazz (1979);

Oct. 11 — Out of Africa (1985);

Dec. 13 — Christmas Party: White Christmas (1954).

Since this will be a private showing, BYOB will be allowed, and the theatre concession stand will be open for purchases. Although the event will be closed to the public, those wishing to become Bosque Film Society members Tuesday night will be admitted.

For more information about joining the Bosque Film Society’s non-profit efforts to support The Cliftex Theatre, the longest continuously-operating movie house in Texas, showing films since 1916, visit our website at: www.bosquefilm.com.