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They Still Make Westerns, Don't They?
Vulture ^ | October 1, 2021 | Bilge Ebiri

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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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: movies; oldhenry; westerns
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To: sphinx

The last “western” I watched in the theatres was Cowboys&Aliens with Bond,James Bond and Indiana Jones.


21 posted on 10/01/2021 2:56:16 PM PDT by Frohickey
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To: sphinx

Westerns do nothing to promote socialism so they, like everything else, must go.


22 posted on 10/01/2021 2:58:07 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Bratch

I hadn’t seen that one, but the Yakuza twist even with Woody seemed new.


23 posted on 10/01/2021 2:59:40 PM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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To: sphinx

The Yellowstone seasons w/Kevin Costner are excellent. For something totally offbeat, I loved the Australian series, Mr Inbetween.


24 posted on 10/01/2021 3:01:31 PM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: justme4now

“Ballad of Buster Scruggs” Tim Blake Nelson was great.


25 posted on 10/01/2021 3:03:43 PM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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To: sphinx

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.


26 posted on 10/01/2021 3:06:39 PM PDT by Bearshouse (Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem. *Thomas Jefferson)
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To: sphinx

Yeah

like wokeback mountain


27 posted on 10/01/2021 3:16:06 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: sphinx

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

https://www.lpmuseum.org/


28 posted on 10/01/2021 3:17:20 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: sphinx
I will check them out for date night.

Hate October because it seems to be just one slasher film after another but one of these might be decent.

29 posted on 10/01/2021 3:21:33 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (I had my emotional DNA done. Turns out I am a reincarnation of Subadar Prag Tewarri.)
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To: Pollard

Support Your Local Gunfighter

Support Your Local Sheriff

Nobody Is Still My Name

Rough Night In Jericho


30 posted on 10/01/2021 3:24:40 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: Kartographer

Last good western I saw was Appaloosa.


31 posted on 10/01/2021 3:27:11 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (I had my emotional DNA done. Turns out I am a reincarnation of Subadar Prag Tewarri.)
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To: sphinx

Old Henry looks good, hard to believe the guy was in O Brother Where Art Thou...


32 posted on 10/01/2021 3:28:03 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: sphinx

Silverado. Quigley down under


33 posted on 10/01/2021 3:31:24 PM PDT by roving
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To: Secret Agent Man

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.


34 posted on 10/01/2021 3:32:42 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: sphinx; Alberta's Child

Very good movie!


35 posted on 10/01/2021 3:34:38 PM PDT by Dust in the Wind (Voting is not a right, it is our civic duty as citizens.)
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To: circlecity

Yeah, it’s pretty bad.


36 posted on 10/01/2021 3:35:26 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: Pollard

Dances with Wolves, A Man Called Horse, Jeremiah Johnson, and Amy John Wayne or Clint Eastwood movie.


37 posted on 10/01/2021 3:39:41 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: crusty old prospector

any John Wayne…


38 posted on 10/01/2021 3:40:14 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: bdfromlv

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.


39 posted on 10/01/2021 3:41:57 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: sphinx

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.


40 posted on 10/01/2021 3:58:02 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“I believe the best social program is a job” ~ Ronald Reagan)
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