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Every now and then we at Furious Cinema turn to one of our favorite classic genres, the western. We’ve previously posted a list of 50 Furious Westerns, and to build on that, we’re launching a series of in-depth looks at some classics of the genre. No rules. This is the second guest post in the series by Simon Gelten (one of the most active writers on The Spaghetti Western Database), [read...] 
Every now and then we at Furious Cinema turn to one of our favorite classic genres, the western. We’ve previously posted a list of 50 Furious Westerns, and to build on that, we’re launching a series of in-depth looks at some classics of the genre. No rules. First up is a guest post by Simon Gelten (one of the most active writers on The Spaghetti Western Database). 50 FURIOUS WESTERNS [read...] 
FILM REVIEW (145 MINUTE VERSION) “When you side with a man, you stay with him, and if you can’t do that you’re like some animal!” – Pike Bishop Sam Peckinpah’s 1969 masterpiece about the end of The Old West begins with a scene that was inspired by a story told to him by actor Emilio Fernandez (who plays Mapache) from his childhood in Mexico. We see a group of kids [read...] 
Clint Eastwood’s High Plains Drifter opens in very much the same way as the 1964 spaghetti western A Fistful of Dollars in which “The Man With No Name” (later revealed to actually have a name: Joe/Manco/Blondie) rides into a small town on horseback. The main difference being this character first appears like an apparition from the sunbaked desert. A mysterious stranger (Eastwood) slowly gallops into the desolate lakeside mining town of [read...] 
Director Sam Peckinpah was enamored with the Old West and the people who were attributed to that era as can be seen from the many films he made. Beginning with his debut The Deadly Companions (1961) through to his romanticized masterpiece Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973), Peckinpah explored the reoccuring themes of camaraderie, betrayal, violence and desperation that made up the great western mythos. For his 1972 film [read...] 
The story goes that after seeing the Western High Noon (1952) together one day at the movies and disliking it, Director Howard Hawks and his friend John Wayne decided to make a better film that showed the camaraderie between a group of men faced with imposing danger. What Hawks created was Rio Bravo, a highly entertaining genre masterpiece that mixed his trademark humor with themes of honor and loyalty amongst [read...] 
“Dyin ain’t much of a livin boy” With his fourth directorial outing The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Clint Eastwood headed back into familiar western genre territory, this time telling the Civil War era tale of a Missouri farmer whose wife and son are murdered by a band of corrupt Union soldiers known as “Red Legs” hired to wipe out all Southern rebels. [read...] 
In tribute to the annual Sundance Film Festival we wanted to review one of our favorite films starring Robert Redford. This film was shot in and around Sundance, Utah… “His name was Jeremiah Johnson, and they say he wanted to be a mountain man. The story goes that he was a man of proper wit and adventurous spirit, suited to the mountains. Nobody knows whereabouts he come from and don’t [read...] 
Top lists always suck. Not only do you have to limit yourself to a certain number, but then you have to think about the order, whether you’ve excluded a movie merely because you haven’t seen it yet, and then there’s a million other people with a million lists. Nobody fucking knows why geeks make top lists, but hey, we are geeks, and here’s my list. These are 10 modern westerns [read...] HANNIE CAULDER (1970) (SWDB entry) – Directed by Burt Kennedy – One of Western cinema’s oldest themes is revenge. With this groundbreaking film, instead of a man, the main protagonist is a woman. Hannie Caulder (Raquel Welch) is raped by a group of violent outlaws, The Clemens Brothers played by three of cinema’s greatest Western character actors: Strother Martin, Jack Elam and Ernest Borgnine. They also kill her husband. [read...] |
   
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