When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds, son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place still reckoning with its history of racial violence. When Sam reencounters his high school flame (Elizabeth Peña), it becomes clear that secrets from the past can’t stay buried forever.

Screening from a new 4K restoration, Sayles’s masterful film, novelistic in its intricacy and featuring a brilliant ensemble cast quietly subverts national mythmaking.

This screening includes a recorded introduction from director John Sayles and producer Maggie Renzi.

"John Sayles' Lone Star contains so many riches, it humbles ordinary movies. And yet they aren't thrown before us, to dazzle and impress: It is only later, thinking about the film, that we appreciate the full reach of its material." - Roger Ebert