Bisbee ’17
Director: Robert Greene
Country/Distributor: USA, 4th Row Films
Opening: September 5
TO GET TO BISBEE, ARIZONA, AN OLD copper mining town a mile high in the Mule Mountains, you turn off the I-10 in Benson, probably passing a Border Patrol checkpoint meeting the northbound traffic at the turnoff to Nogales, and then Tombstone, which you can’t miss for the billboards of men with guns pointed right. In Old Bisbee, the redbrick former banks and municipal buildings creeping up the hillsides are today occupied by antique stores, real estate offices, and microbreweries for tourists and retirees. The rest of the town, one of the poorest in Arizona, lies on the far side of the inoperative Copper Queen Mine pit—once its livelihood, now a massive, bloodred gouge that suggests an open wound.
