Don Siegel - The Shootist

By Jeremy CarrJust as crucial to The Shootist is what Books leaves behind, which, prior to the beginning of the film, was nothing more than his dubious exploits and the tales that followed. By the end of the film, though, there is something more."It obviously isn’t necessary to know an actor’s life story in order to assess their performance in a given film. Nor is it a requirement to have seen every one of the actor’s prior films. However, there is a distinct satisfaction and appreciation tha...

Ghost Town: An American Terror (2023) Review: An Unforgivingly Forgettable Western About a Forgotten Town

The western genre has far off been out of Hollywood’s mainstream focus for over a decade. But that doesn’t mean the genre ever ran out of interesting ideas to tell compelling stories – they just got too expensive to turn a profit over. However, it’s always given small-scale indie filmmakers a rich avenue to tweak its thematically rich setting to provide an insight into the human psyche. Owen Conway’s feature, "Ghost Town: An American Terror," starts off by promising to deliver something simil...

My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock - Jennie Kermode - 18197

"This is very much a film about filmmaking – not the production, not the actors and associated gossip, but the experience of constructing a film on storyboard and set, building it up shot by shot until it becomes more than it first appeared to be on the page." | Photo: courtesy of Glasgow Film Festival Alongside his filmmaking career, Alfred Hitchcock enjoyed considerable success as a presenter of other people’s work, his distinctive voice and dry sense of h...

The Western Genre in Film and TV (Definition and Examples)

Let's take a ride into the wild wild west.  The thunder of hooves and the crack of gunfire was the soundtrack of the American West. It was a short period in history that captured the mind of writers and directors since the dawn of cinema. The Western genre has been a staple of American entertainment for decades, captivating audiences with its portrayal of the Wild West in film and television. From classic films such as The Searchers and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly to iconic...

Exploring the feud between John Huston and John Wayne

(Credit: Far Out / Wikimedia) Exploring the feud between John Huston and John Wayne Wed 28th Dec 2022 18.30 GMT John Huston, the director of unforgettable masterpieces such as The Maltese Falcon and The Treasure of Sierra Madre, has often been called Hollywood’s renaissance man and rightly so. One of the greatest pioneers of American cinema, Huston worked with the biggest icons of t...

Unforgiven Marked The End Of An Era For Clint Eastwood's Film Career - /Film

Unforgiven Marked The End Of An Era For Clint Eastwood's Film Career Warner Bros. By Jeremy Smith/Updated: Aug. 5, 2022 3:25 pm EST Clint Eastwood is one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the world, but it wasn't always thus — especially in America. Having gotten his start on the long-running TV Western "Rawhide,"...

Wrangling the Western Metaphor: Charles Belden’s Wyoming Imagery

Reaching the Pitchfork Ranch in the 1920s wasn’t easy. In fact, it was arduous. Imagine yourself on the trek. After transferring at the Billings, Montana, branch line to the end of the rails in Cody, Wyoming, a light horse-drawn stage drives you over rutted dirt roads to Meeteetse, a little town some forty miles to the southeast. The delights of Meeteetse entail a hotel room shared with two to three other guests, a barber shop with a wood burning stove boiling hot water for the town’s only pu...

M. Night Shyamalan Paid Homage To A Forgotten Marlon Brando And Jack Nicholson Western

M. Night Shyamalan Paid Homage To A Forgotten Marlon Brando And Jack Nicholson Western Universal Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/April 29, 2022 5:37 pm EDT A beach that makes you old sounds right in the wheelhouse of M. Night Shyamalan, the filmmaker who gave us aliens that emit poison gas from their wrists in "Signs" and...

Fwd: The Power of the Western

Plus Pelican Bay Prison Podcast, California's State Controller, and More | Thursday, Mar. 17, 2022 This week our contributors saddle up to explore varied terrain—what we can learn from the tragic heroes of the Western's frontier, why a Republican might be best suited in Sacramento's State Controller office, and how the men in Pelican Bay State Prison connect to one another and the outside community (the first in a Zócalo/California Wellness Foundation Inq...

Book of Boba Fett review - a space western

‘The Book of Boba Fett’ review: Wears its space western identity with flair - The HinduSourceURL: https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/the-book-of-boba-fett-review-wears-its-space-western-identity-with-flair/article38417947.eceBoba Fett had a rather small role in the original Star Wars trilogy; he was the bounty hunter who handed the frozen-in-carbonite Han Solo to vile Jabba the Hutt. He met his supposed end in the sarlacc pit in Return of the Jedi. However, instead of suffering uni...

The spaghetti western and once upon a Time in the West

Once in the Saddle - The Memory and Romance of the Trail Driving Cowboy

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