Film noir: A series of film noir hosted by Jon Noe at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays at Historic Everett Theatre, 2911 Colby Ave., Everett; 425-258-6766. Tickets are $5.
“Suddenly”: June 6. A psycho (Frank Sinatra) wants to assassinate the president when he passes through the small town of Suddenly. Sterling Hayden is the sheriff (1954).
“Woman on the Run”: June 20. An eyewitness to a murder runs away and is chased around San Francisco by his wife, a reporter, the cops and the murderer; with Ann Sheridan and Dennis O’Keefe (1950).
Reel World Cinema: The theme for this late-spring series of films is “The Celluloid West — Revisited,” six award-winning westerns. The thread of these six movies is the myths about heroism and the conquest of the American West that are exposed. A potluck dinner runs from 6 to 7 p.m., followed by the film and discussion from 7 to 10 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 2936 Rockefeller Ave., Everett. The series runs through June 23. Call 425-259-7139 for details. Free. Descriptions are edited from the Reel World flier.
“Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”: June 7. This movie broke the mold of westerns with its comedic flair and B.J. Thomas’ jaunty “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head.” The Hole-in-the-Wall gang, led by Butch (Paul Newman) and enforced by Sundance (Robert Redford) is robbing trains and banks all over the territory. But when railroad baron E.H. Harriman hires a select posse to track them down, Butch, Sundance and girlfriend Etta Place (Katherine Ross) go on the lam — all the way to Bolivia (George Roy Hill, 1969).
“Unforgiven”: June 14. This movie demonstrates revisionist western storytelling at its most profound. Movie icon Clint Eastwood directed and stars as William Munny, a reformed killer who has lost is wife and is struggling to raise their children in abject poverty on the prairie. When he hears from “the Schofield Kid” that a bounty has been placed on some cowboys in Big Whiskey, Wyo., he sets off with his friend Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman) to earn the reward money and make a better life. With Gene Hackman and Peter O’Toole (Clint Eastwood, 1992).
“True Grit”: June 21. Leave it to the Coen brothers to top John Wayne’s Oscar-winning 1969 “True Grit.” Stars Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin and Berry Pepper (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2010).
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