Mr Toad's Friday Night Movies: Wistful Westerns of Altman & Hill

For our second Friday Night Movies offering, we screen two iconic westerns from 1970 that both simultaneously subvert and exalt the genre. Robert Altman’s "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" and Geroge Roy Hill’s "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" emerge during a transformative period in Hollywood cinema. While distinct in their storytelling and thematic focus, both films offer a revisionist take on the Western genre, departing from traditional narratives and embodying the spirit of the counterculture's “New Hollywood” era of the late 1960s and early 1970s. 

Friday, January 26th, 2024

Race Brook Lodge is a hidden gem in The Berkshires, at the foot of Mt. Race and a short hike from the Appalachian trail. The yoga & event barn at Race Brook is simultaneously rustic and sublime, steeped in hundreds of years of New England history. The Stagecoach Tavern is unpretentious fine dining, exquisite farm-to-table cuisine in a relaxed atmosphere. Much of the food is sourced from Race Farm, right on the property!