The Wild Bunch - Honoring Cinematographer Lucien Ballard
Join us for a special screening of "The Wild Bunch" honoring cinematographer Lucien Ballard, an Academy Award nominee and Circle Cinema Walk of Fame recipient.
TIME & LOCATION
Jul 20, 2026, 7:15 PM
7:15pm | Screen 3, Circle Cinema
ABOUT
Feature Film • Western • 2hr 15m • English • Screen 3
$12 members, $15 non-members
Screening in honor of Circle Cinema Walk of Fame inductee Lucien Ballard! Lucien was cinematographer on this acclaimed film.
About The Film
An aging group of outlaws in 1913 Texas look for one last big score, selling stolen Army rifles to a rogue Mexican general during that country's revolution, as the traditional American West is disappearing around them.
About Lucien Ballard
Lucien Ballard (1904–1988) — Born in Oklahoma and of Cherokee descent, Ballard studied at the University of Oklahoma and the University of Pennsylvania before breaking into Hollywood as a film cutter and earning his first cinematography credits on Josef von Sternberg productions. Over a five-decade career he shot more than 130 films and became a celebrated stylist, equally at home in moody black-and-white and sweeping color, and a favorite of directors including Stanley Kubrick (The Killing), Budd Boetticher, and Sam Peckinpah (Ride the High Country, The Wild Bunch). A master of the Western landscape, he also devised a soft, line-smoothing light nicknamed "the Obie" for actress Merle Oberon, to whom he was briefly married. Ballard earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography for The Caretakers (1963) and won the National Society of Film Critics Award for The Wild Bunch. "I want to contribute to a picture, not just work on it," he once said.