For nearly forty years, Nick Cave has appeared on screen and composed music for over two dozen films. To celebrate MUBI’s global streaming release of Andrew Dominik’s This Much I Know To Be True, which chronicles the collaborative process of Cave and Warren Ellis, MUBI and Brain Dead are proud to present a live discussion between John Hillcoat and MUBI Podcast’s Rico Gagliano followed by a screening of The Proposition, a gritty Australian western written and composed by Nick Cave himself.

The Old West seems like a tough place: You ride a horse, spit tobacco, wear a good hat much of the time, but there’s SO much dust always, my god! It’s a real sandy affair. Well, I can’t even imagine how that would be, tenfold in the Australian Outback, which I’m now going to refer to as the Oz West. Tough guys take on a biblical revenge drama in this hit from Nick Cave, John Hillcoat and Guy Pearce.