When we picture a Western, we think of harsh desert landscapes, tumbleweed, a relentless baking sun, cacti, five o'clock shadow and everything and everyone covered in dust.
This January, we want to lower the temperature and journey to the snow-swept wild frontier; elemental, unforgiving and bitterly cold. This mini season, curated by Kino Klubb, presents two of the finest examples of the winter Western, Sergio Corbucci’s The Great Silence and Robert Altman’s McCabe and Mrs Miller. Both films are set in snowbound communities and offer a revisionist take on the Western dream; a pessimistic and brutal view of the gangster west.