Happy 40th Anniversary, Butch and Sundance

Yale University's Whitney Humanities Center is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, this weekend in New Haven, Connecticut. The classic movie starred Paul Newman, Robert Redford and Katharine Ross, and won Oscars for best screenplay by William Goldman, and best film score by Burt Bacharach. The two-day celebration begins tonight, October 23rd, at 7 p.m. in the Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, with a screening of the movie, followed by remarks and a question-and-answer session with Goldman and the film"s editor and associate producer, Robert Crawford. Crawford also wrote and directed the one-hour documentary The Making of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, distributed worldwide exclusively by Janson Media, and widely considered the first 'Making of...' film in cinema history. George Roy Hill's iconic film, 'spoke vividly to its times and sparked an influential reimagining of the American western,' said Michael Kerbel, the director of Yale"s Film Study Center, who will moderate the discussion. Tomorrow at 1 pm, the Film Study Center at the Whitney and the Whitney Humanities Center will screen the Emmy-Award winning The Making of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as part of a continuing exploration of the legendary director's work. The weekend celebration will conclude Saturday evening with a screening of Hill's Slaughterhouse-Five, and there will be an encore screening of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid on Sunday, October 25th, at 3 pm.