They Still Make Westerns, Don't They?

Vulture ^ | October 1, 2021 | Bilge Ebiri

[Frohickey]

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

[Telepathic Intruder]

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

[bdfromlv]

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

[JonPreston]

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

[bdfromlv]

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

[Bearshouse]

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.

[Secret Agent Man]

Yeah

like wokeback mountain

[Scrambler Bob]

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/

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

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.

[wally_bert]

Support Your Local Gunfighter

Support Your Local Sheriff

Nobody Is Still My Name

Rough Night In Jericho

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Last good western I saw was Appaloosa.

[Chode]

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

[roving]

Silverado. Quigley down under

[sphinx]

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.

[Dust in the Wind]

Very good movie!

[Bernard Marx]

Yeah, it’s pretty bad.

[crusty old prospector]

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

[crusty old prospector]

any John Wayne…

[Bernard Marx]

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.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

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.