Saturday, March 21, 2020, 8:30 pm, $7
MIKE PLANTE’s WYATT EARP: AND WITH HIM CAME THE WEST +
For our second Psycho-Geography, we turn our eyes and ears to the US Southwest, as understood by Mike Plante’s masterful feature. Wyatt Earp, one of the most famous lawmen and gamblers of the Old West, is the inspiration behind decades of Hollywood Westerns. Scripted by Plante, along with Sam Green and Tim Kirk, this detailed doc highlights the influence of Earp’s legacy on cinema and our perception of the wild, wild West. Up from LA, Plante is himself infamous as the feisty editor of the delicious and delirious Cinemad zine, that morphed into online and then podcast versions, even as Plante surfaced to serve as curator of Sundance’s experimental sidebar. The hoe-down opens with a posse of 16mm Country/Western musicians, including Gene Autry, Tex Ritter, Jim Reeves, Johnny Bond, Joe Maphis, and more.