#Neo Western

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Adrian Pasdar and Jenny Wright in Near Dark (1987)

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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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— The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

(1948, Dir. John Huston)

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Joel & Ethan Coen’s “No Country For Old Men” November 9, 2007.

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

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“How do you think this is goin to end? he said. I don’t know. I don’t know how nothin is going to end. Do you? I know how it ain’t. Like livin happily ever after? Somethin like that.”

—Cormac McCarthy “No Country For Old Men”

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Does a pessimistic solarpunk just look like neowestern?

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The Last Stop in Yuma County

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The Last Stop in Yuma County (2023, USA)

Director & Writer: Francis Galluppi

Mini-review:

I had heard some pretty great things about this film (Sam Raimi loved it so much that he hired the director to helm a future Evil Dead movie!), and I can see why. The setup is simple but well executed; just when you think all the cards have been played out, Galluppi surprises you with something else, a strategy that he keeps up until the very end. The cast also has no weak links, which is basically essential for this type of play-like movie. I don't really have much more to say, since The Last Stop in Yuma County is rather short, but just know that I enjoyed it.

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W A T C H I N G

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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 Treasure of the Sierra Madre

(1948, Dir. John Huston)