WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, Dec. 5, the Clark Art Institute kicks off its ten-part New Hollywood Auteurs film series with a screening of "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) at 6 pm in the Manton Research Center auditorium. 

 

Presented in partnership with Images Cinema, each film is introduced by a staff member of the Clark or Images.

 

According to a press release:

 

Half comic fairy tale, half brutal fact, "Bonnie and Clyde" is based upon the Barrow Gang that terrorized the South in the 1930s. Part of the changing of the guard in Hollywood, the film ushered in an era of violent and sexually liberated film making. Although Truffaut’s style was a primary influence, it reclaimed the American gangster movie from the nouvelle vague. Reflecting both folk legend and the affinity of the antiwar generation for outlaws, Bonnie and Clyde has a glee then so new, now so imitated. 

 

Free. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524. Images Cinema has received funding support from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation's Arts Build Community grant to co-present/co-produce this series.