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NEWS OF THE WORLD

December 22, 2020 By 1 Comment

NEWS OF THE WORLD

NEWS OF THE WORLD is a somber and sober tale of post-Civil War Texas with few surprises as it wends its way through the mythos of the Old West, unfolding as it does as a metaphor. Or is it an allegory? Perhaps a microcosm of the world’s ills, both then and now? All those elements… Read More »

Tagged With: Civil War, Confederate, Kiowa, Native-American, occupation, Reconstruction, Refugees, Texas, western

DAMSEL

July 11, 2018 By Leave a Comment

DAMSEL

This fiercely iconoclastic western uses many tropes from that cinematic genre, from the classics of John Ford to the more recent idioms of Sergio Leone, but the references are merely window dressing. Part comedy, part tragedy, part feminist manifesto, and all engrossing, it subverts expectations at every turn while delivering a film that refuses to be pigeonholed.

Tagged With: miniature horse, Native-American, preacher, true love, western

HOSTILES

January 6, 2018 By Leave a Comment

HOSTILES

HOSTILES is a film that takes itself very seriously. It should. Taking as its themes both human nature’s capacity for violence and its overweening need for mercy, it is not something to be approached lightly, something that director Scott Cooper took to heart in his adaptation of the late Donald E. Stewart’s manuscript. Set in… Read More »

Tagged With: American West, cavalry, Cheyenne, moral relativity, racism, western

JANE GOT A GUN

January 30, 2016 By Leave a Comment

JANE GOT A GUN

JANE GOT A GUN tries to evoke Leone (check the duster Jane sports) and Ford (check the mesas that surround her), but without the intensity of the former, or the adventure of the latter. What’s left is a stereopticon of a post-modern morality tale that can’t overcome its own inertia.

Tagged With: bullet wounds, creative trouble. director walk-out, flashbacks, love triangle, western

THE HATEFUL EIGHT

December 26, 2015 By Leave a Comment

THE HATEFUL EIGHT

THE HATEFUL EIGHT is an impudent, pugnacious comedy that uses the synthetic nature of its stylized homage idiom to be a whip-smart consideration of race, gender, politics, situational ethics, and very, very bad teeth.  The genre is the western, but the tone is thoroughly modern as a group of the damned journey through the desolate… Read More »

Tagged With: 70mm, blizzard, bloodshed, bounty hunter, Civil War, Kurt Rusell, Samuel L. Jackson, western

THE HOMESMAN

November 29, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE HOMESMAN

Tommy Lee Jones is a dour man, at least on screen. His carefully cultivated persona is a laconic one of few words and little patience. It is a character that he plays to perfection, and in THE HOMESMAN,he imbues it with a wonderful, understated quirkiness that makes his star quality all the more charismatic. As… Read More »

Tagged With: books to film, cinema, film, Hilary Swank, madness, movie, Nebraska, prairie, Tommy Lee Jones, western

3:10 TO YUMA

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

3:10 TO YUMA

Stark, intelligent, and supremely suspenseful, 3:10 TO YUMA is a masterpiece of psychological drama coupled with a darn fine action flick that uses the classic western as its idiom.  And then turns it on its head. Though a remake of the film of the same name from 1957, there is a freshness and an edginess… Read More »

Tagged With: father-son, outlaw, remake, sheriff, western

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