Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson. 1976. Directed by Robert Altman

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Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson. 1976. USA. Directed by Robert Altman. Courtesy MGM Studios/Park Circus

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson. 1976. USA. Directed by Robert Altman. 123 min.

Screenplay by Alan Rudolph, Altman, suggested by the play Indians, by Arthur Kopit. With Paul Newman, Joel Grey, Burt Lancaster, Geraldine Chaplin, Kevin McCarthy, Harvey Keitel. After Nashville, this is Altman’s second Bicentennial-inspired reflection on America told as a show-business story. Restaging history proves impossible when Newman’s Buffalo Bill hires the real Chief Sitting Bull for his Wild West Pageant. Courtesy Harvard Film Archive.

This film accompanies Robert Altman.

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Thu, Dec 18, 2014, 4:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T1, Theater 1

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Tue, Dec 16, 2014, 7:00 p.m.

Introduced by Joel Grey

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