Posted on 10/01/2021 1:55:40 PM PDT by sphinx
It’s a nauseatingly evocative moment, both because of the way director Potsy Ponciroli’s camera isolates the actor, and because Tim Blake Nelson conveys, through his defeated posture and anxious movements, the stone that is slowly forming in his stomach. Earlier, when he first came upon the money and the man, Henry had quietly ridden away from them, unwilling to get involved, only to change his mind. Now, again without a word of dialogue, he tells us that he knows that the valley below and the hills beyond will soon fill up with the shadows of other men looking for the cash.
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The last “western” I watched in the theatres was Cowboys&Aliens with Bond,James Bond and Indiana Jones.
Westerns do nothing to promote socialism so they, like everything else, must go.
I hadn’t seen that one, but the Yakuza twist even with Woody seemed new.
The Yellowstone seasons w/Kevin Costner are excellent. For something totally offbeat, I loved the Australian series, Mr Inbetween.
“Ballad of Buster Scruggs” Tim Blake Nelson was great.
I will always love the old westerns and rugged cowboys. Anything with John Wayne gets my attention (my ringtone is “Fill Your Hand You Son of a B****”) I really like Tom Selleck as a cowboy too, Monte Walsh and Quigley are staples.
Yeah
like wokeback mountain
Next weekend - At Lone Pine California, where a LOT of westerns were filmed
https://lonepinechamber.org/event/lone-pine-film-festival-3/
And their Museum of Western Film History
Hate October because it seems to be just one slasher film after another but one of these might be decent.
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Support Your Local Sheriff
Nobody Is Still My Name
Rough Night In Jericho
Last good western I saw was Appaloosa.
Old Henry looks good, hard to believe the guy was in O Brother Where Art Thou...
Silverado. Quigley down under
I never saw Wokeback Mountain. I got my fill of gay cowboys and Indians back when the Village People did YMCA. If you’ve kept up with the genre since then, feel free to report.
Very good movie!
Yeah, it’s pretty bad.
Dances with Wolves, A Man Called Horse, Jeremiah Johnson, and Amy John Wayne or Clint Eastwood movie.
any John Wayne…
I thought Nelson’s tale was a bit over the top: funny but quite a stretch. The other stories in the film were strong, especially the one about the pitchman traveling with a quadraplegic orator. It was a punch in the gut.
I just watched a fascinating British spy film called “Red Joan” about a very old woman in the late 1990s or early 2000s suddenly accused of treason by spying for the Soviets during and immediately after WW II. The central theme is whether it is morally justified to commit treason in furtherance of world peace and the capacity of one individual to affect the course of history. The woman’s adult son (probably in his 60s in the film) has to come to grips with the fact that his mother was a Soviet spy.
It’s a real good guys versus bad guys movie, so I would consider it a conservative film. It is slow moving and won’t be to everyone’s taste, but I found it enjoyable, even with poor continuity and skips in parts and some horrendously over-the-top type-casting of the Soviet says who recruit Joan. The critics really bombed it.
There is a bit of sex (brief), extra-marital affairs, and a bit of homosexuality (via an old black and white photograph) used for blackmail. There is no profanity or drug use.
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