Tag: Western
In Old Arizona
In Old Arizona (1929) is one of those landmark achievements of cinema that is at once incredible to behold and yet a tad difficult to watch. Produced in the earliest days of the talkies, In Old Arizona was the first feature-length film to prominently incorporate sound captured outdoors instead of on a controlled studio lot. [...]
Django Unchained
I am having a hard time with Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, the latest movie by the famed director starring Jamie Foxx as Django, Kerry Washington, Christoph Waltz , Leonard DiCaprio and, of course, Samuel L. Jackson. I am trying to view it as a love story, set in slavery times. But the movie is so [...]
Django Unchained
The great thing about a Quentin Tarantino movie is that the director loves making films in seldom seen genres. Django Unchained is Tarantino’s spaghetti western, which is a genre I’m not at all personally familiar with but it’s easy to recognize certain conventions. The use of conspicuous camera zooms and modern music create a fun [...]
Wind Blast DVD Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of our Wind Blast DVD Giveaway: Bill Norris, OR & Marco Oviedo, IL We’re giving away two DVD copies of Gao Qunshu’s Wind Blast, courtesy of Well Go USA. If you would like to enter the drawing to receive a copy of this awesome Western/Kung-Fu hybrid, all you have to do is email filmmonthlycontests@gmail.com, with [...]
Interview with Director of Dead Man’s Burden, Jared Moshe
In a corner of the Marriot Hotel that is part of the bustling LA Live and home to the increasingly popular Los Angeles Film Festival, young, first time writer/director Jared Moshe is trying to soak in the success that he is attaining. His directorial début, the Western drama Dead Man’s Burden has proven so popular [...]
The John Wayne Film Collection
The 10-disc John Wayne Film Collection, now available on DVD from Fox Home Entertainment, includes ten films starring who else but The Duke himself. The set takes viewers all the way back to Wayne’s first starring role in Raoul Walsh’s 1930 Western, The Big Trail. In addition to The Big Trail, this set includes the [...]
Quigley Down Under
Tom Selleck stars as professional sharpshooter Matthew Quigley in this pseudo-revisionist western set in the Australian outback. The film opens with cowboy Quigley arriving in Australia with his custom Sharps Buffalo Rifle in hand to work for rancher Elliot Marston (Alan Rickman). Quigley’s job, or so he was led to believe before setting out from [...]
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