Rancho Deluxe
Frank Perry’s film Rancho Deluxe (1975) is a dry character driven comedy that looks at the fallout of American Manifest Destiny in the mid-twentieth century. It’s a film where cattle… Read more »
Frank Perry’s film Rancho Deluxe (1975) is a dry character driven comedy that looks at the fallout of American Manifest Destiny in the mid-twentieth century. It’s a film where cattle… Read more »
Philippe Mora’s Mad Dog Morgan (1976) is a film that is at once very much in love with the Romantic depiction of the Australian bushranger while also being a kind… Read more »
Karl May looms large in the landscape of German culture. His nineteenth century western adventure novels, influential in their day, re-entered German popular culture in the post-war period as the… Read more »
In the year 1959 two of the greatest low budget westerns ever made were released. These are films of great narrative economy, visual minimalism, and aesthetic precision that looked to… Read more »
It’s not all that surprising that in the mid-eighties brothers Lawrence and Mark Kasdan would write a western about family values. Silverado (1985) is one of the better known westerns… Read more »
The Belle Starr Story (1968) is an early directorial effort from Lina Wertmüller before she found international success in the mid-seventies. This relatively early effort (which she directed under the… Read more »
The year is 3031 and the reptilian alien Red Eye (Andrew Divoff) has come to the Earth town on Oblivion to set up shop. When Red Eye kills the sheriff,… Read more »
In the year of the United States’ bicentennial, Clint Eastwood released on audiences his first major revisionist western The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976). Immediately one can see the influence of… Read more »
Vera Cruz (1954) is the second of two successive westerns that Robert Aldrich made for Hecht-Lancaster Productions at United Artists. At the time that Vera Cruz was made Lancaster was… Read more »
Saddle The Wind (1958) should be a classic western. Rod Serling’s script brings an existential dread to the familiar tale of a brother trying to pull his younger brother back… Read more »