THE BALLAD OF GREGORIO CORTEZ
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Director: Robert M. Young
1982 / 104min / DCP
A revisionist Western set in turn-of-the-last-century Texas, The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez gives Edward James Olmos a career part in the title role, a Mexican American farm worker who goes on the run after he’s slapped with an unfair murder charge, trailing 600 Texas Rangers behind him. A low-key and low-budget frontier epic told with total life-marred historical veracity, Young’s film resurrects a legendary episode of immigrant resistance to nativist bullying. The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez was restored in 2016 by the Academy Film Archive. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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