Briscoe Summer Film Series

The Briscoe Museum of Western Art presents its 2019 Summer Film Series, curated by Professor Andrew Patrick Nelson, P.h.D., from the School of Film and Photography, Montana State University – Bozeman. Dr. Nelson will introduce each film with a brief lecture discussing connections and themes which relate to the museum’s current exhibitions. The lecture begins at 1 p.m., followed immediately by the film. The film series is included with museum admission.

Lonely are the Brave | Sunday, May 26 – 1:00 pm

The old-fashioned values of the cowboy confront the modern world in this mournful hymn to rugged individualism. Kirk Douglas plays a free-spirited ranch hand whose uncompromising spirit is severely challenged after he breaks out of jail for a minor offense and finds the entire county’s police force on his trail, helicopters and all.

Smoke Signals | Sunday, June 9 – 1:00 PM

What it means to be “Indian” in contemporary America is the issue at the heart of director Chris Eyre’s breakout feature about an unlikely pair of young men from the Coeur D’Alene Indian Reservation (Adam Beach and Evan Adams) on a road trip to Phoenix.

Thelma and Louise | Sunday, July 7 – 1:00 PM

Traditional gender stereotypes are upended in this unconventional road movie from director Ridley Scott (Gladiator, The Martian) about a meek housewife and a sharp-tongued waitress (Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon) on the run from the law across the American Southwest.

Junior Bonner | Sunday, August 4 – 1:00 PM

Sparks fly when a middle-aged rodeo rider (Steve McQueen) returns to his Arizona hometown in search of his final eight seconds of fame. The most personal film by famed Western director Sam Peckinpah (Ride the High Country, The Wild Bunch).