The moment I started up this crazy column, people have been asking me when I would write up The Wild Bunch. It’s not my intention to snub Sam Peckinpah (though he…
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Western Wednesdays
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As I’ve made way through the Western genre, I’ve had one silly hope — that I’d stumble on some awesome, forgotten, cultish series that centered on a female gunfighter. The Quick…
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Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah painted some bleak and cynical portraits of the West. They gun down children, show the futility of civil war, pile corpses in wagons, and survive by…
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When you discuss the Western, there’s three shadows that loom over the main street at noon — John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, and Gary Cooper. The sturdy Randolph Scott (who made dozens…
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“I’m a dying man, scared of the dark.” I’ve put off watching The Shootist for a long time. It has such a weighty legend hanging over it. It’s John Wayne’s…
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The Western genre has plenty of subgenres. There’s deconstructionist Westerns, post apocalyptic Westerns, spaghetti Westerns, classic Westerns, and so on. I’ve found you can also split the entire genres into two…
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In The Pardoner’s Tale, three drunk scallywags stumble out of a pub in the middle of the Black Death. In their alcohol inspired brilliance, they decide to go looking for Death…
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There’s something a bit sad in seeing a grimy spaghetti western after Quentin Tarantino has already had his way with it. This is a film I would have liked to have…