#Neo Western

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Lonestar (1996) If you've never seen this finely crafted film I suggest that you seek it out and do so. I originally saw this in the theater when it was released back in '96 and I'm sure I didn't appreciate the deftness of the script, the seamless transitions that move the narrative from the present into the past and back again, nor the wonderful acting. As the stills here demonstrate, racial anxieties about American history, playing out here in a school meeting in Texas, are not new and contemporary right-wing attacks on how "history" is taught (and what "history" is the "correct" one) are as old as the public school system itself. While this scene might give the impression that the film is overly didactic, it's really not. The politics are foregrounded in a way that serves to compliment the overall narrative, one that digs into the past, how it affects the present, and how people live with it (or how we lie to ourselves about what came before us and what we've inherited). You also get to see Kris Kristofferson play a real POS.

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No One, not a soul, not a single person: My neurodivergent arse: “I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Death in Puss in Boots the last Wish is a wolf, nor do I think it’s just because a wolf is a cool and menacing creature, nor as furry-bait, but that it’s a deliberate reference on the part of the writers to The Interlopers by Saki, where death appears as a wolves with no actual stakes in the main conflicts between characters, in order to drive home the theme of the inevitability and randomness of death and the importance of living genuinely before it’s too late. I fact, a think the choice to make the wolf also a Spanish speaker with strong Western visual and audio motifs (spaghetti western whistling, being seen as a bounty hunter, the “Pick it up” duels) layers this symbolism with another work that heavily draws of The Interlopers, namely No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy¸ where Anton Chigurh is also obliquely referred to as lobo. In this essay I will…”

[grunge-samurai]

— The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

(1948, Dir. John Huston)

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On August 30, 1973, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid debuted in the United Kingdom.

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How successful would Raylan Givens…

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[rowansender]

Does a pessimistic solarpunk just look like neowestern?

[moviesiveseenandwanttoremember]

Martin Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower Moon" October 20, 2023.

[tinyreviews]

Tiny Review: The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada 2005. Promising Neo-Western drags out.

The setting is interesting and intriguing. Unfortunately, we get out of it all too soon.

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (also known as Three Burials) is a 2005 neo-Western film directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones and written by Guillermo Arriaga. It also stars Barry Pepper, Julio Cedillo, Dwight Yoakam, and January Jones.

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The Hateful Eight, 2015.

Dir. & Writ. Quentin Tarantino | DOP Robert Richardson

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cackling at a line from one of my favorite neo-westerns – a cop tells an outlaw that he is in fact going to civilize this lawless hellscape, by god, and the outlaw just looks at him and goes "what the fuck are you talking about." and THAT my friends is how you boil down a western to its essence

[gordopickett]

I submitted Mikey's new work to IMDb and they added it, but it's under its original title "Desert King." I submitted for them to change the series title to its now-correct "Territory" so we'll see if that happens too. I'm just excited bc this is the first time Michael has had an "Upcoming" work listed in more than a year! 😁💙🤠

I'll never tire of posting this new pic! 😍🤠💙

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Justified: City Primeval (2023)

Eight years after he's left Kentucky, Givens is now based in Miami, balancing life as a marshal and part-time father of a 14-year-old girl. A chance encounter on a Florida highway sends him to Detroit and he crosses paths with Clement Mansell, aka The Oklahoma Wildman, a violent sociopath who's already slipped through the fingers of Detroit's finest once and wants to do so again.

I'm so glad I waited a bit after watching 'Justified' to watch this because I know I'd gotten used to the characters in that Kentucky universe and I probably would have ended up comparing the two shows and not enjoying it.

'Justified' is one of the best shows I've ever seen. It was perfection from start to finish and 'Justified: City Primeval' is in the same style. A new set of dodgy characters (and a truly psycho baddie) trying to live a dishonest life and our US Marshal hot on their case. This is an enjoyable show but it isn't on the same level as the original because it is, after all, a mini-series, but nevertheless I enjoyed it. The only annoying bit is the daughter's character but I had plenty of warning about it so I knew not to let it get to me too much. If you enjoyed 'Justified', definitely check it out (I promise it will be worth it) and just make sure you give a little time between the two series.

[grunge-samurai]

— The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

(1948, Dir. John Huston)