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SUMMARY:Thieves Like Us / Kansas City
DESCRIPTION:Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be 
 assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are 
 assigned on a first come\, first served basis. The box office opens one 
 hour before the event.\n \n\nThieves Like Us\n\nU.S.\, 1974 \n\nLike the 
 camp announcements in M*A*S*H\, a stream of radio broadcasts layer context 
 and commentary into Robert Altman’s Depression-era period piece about a 
 trio of small-time bank robbers in the rural south. They’re also an early 
 clue that Altman here is more interested in exploring time\, place and 
 character than indulging in action set pieces. Indeed\, despite a string of 
 robberies\, we don’t enter a bank with the gang until late in the film. 
 In rustic hideouts and safe houses\, a tender love story emerges instead 
 between Keith Carradine’s criminal and Shelley Duvall’s ingenue\, a 
 chimera of hope in a country left to fate. \n\n35mm\, color\, 123 min. 
 Director: Robert Altman. Screenwriters: Robert Altman\, Joan Tewkesbury\, 
 Calder Willingham. With: Keith Carradine\, Shelley Duvall\, John Schuck.\n 
 \n\nKansas City\n\nU.S.\, 1996\n\nRobert Altman’s homage to Kansas City\, 
 Missouri\, of the 1930s\, where he was born and raised\, brings its 
 innovative jazz scene to rip-roaring life within a story about the 
 improvisations of survival required during the Depression. When her 
 small-time hood husband (Dermot Mulroney) falls into the hands of a 
 vengeful gambler (a wickedly smooth Harry Belafonte)\, Jennifer Jason 
 Leigh’s brassy manicurist kidnaps the wife (Miranda Richardson) of a 
 prominent politician (Michael Murphy) on the eve of an election to force 
 his intervention. It’s a desperate hustle in a city where some have to 
 make it up as they go along while the wheels of power roll on. \n\n35mm\, 
 color\, 116 min. Director: Robert Altman. Screenwriters: Robert Altman\, 
 Frank Barhydt. With: Jennifer Jason Leigh\, Miranda Richardson\, Harry 
 Belafonte. \n\nJoin Meeting: 
 https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/thieves-like-us-kansas-city
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, UCLA Film & Television Archive
ORGANIZER;CN="Katy Nicholas":MAILTO:katynicholas13@gmail.com
CATEGORIES:Screening
CONTACT;CN="Katy Nicholas":MAILTO:katynicholas13@gmail.com
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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