The Great Silence
“If only he had realized all his ideas, he could have become one of the greatest.”-Sergio Leone Sergio Corbucci has long-lived in the shadow of Sergio Leone. One cannot read… Read more »
“If only he had realized all his ideas, he could have become one of the greatest.”-Sergio Leone Sergio Corbucci has long-lived in the shadow of Sergio Leone. One cannot read… Read more »
“In art there is only artifice“-Luc Moullet When one thinks of the American West one may recall the vistas of John Ford, prints by Mort Künstler, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood,… Read more »
George Stevens’ film Shane (1953) presents itself in modern criticism as an artifact of an American bygone age. Upon its initial release it received acclaim amongst a sea of A-list… Read more »
Just before directing his masterpiece Walker (1987) Alex Cox helmed this typically offbeat revival of the Spaghetti Western. The film is the product of a failed charity concert film Cox… Read more »
“…a movie about a one-woman all-fag cowboy town“-Andy Warhol If the fifties represented a trend in subverting the Western genre by inverting the sexual politics of the day, enhancing the… Read more »
Ethan Edwards and Ben Zachary are not as akin as one may first perceive, they are as point counter point as the superstars who depict them, John Wayne as Edwards… Read more »
“I love you. Now I know I can finish this film!”-R.W. Fassbinder to production manager Peter Berling on the set of Whity. Whity (1970) is a first in many respects… Read more »