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When I was told about the Howard Hawks Blogathon by my friend Ratnakar of Seetimaar – Diary of a Movie Lover I was really happy because Hawks is a filmmaker I’ve been a fan of for many years now. I think what made Hawks’ work appealing to me was the fact he could take any genre and entertain you through his mastery of it. Whether it was comedy, adventure, western [read...] 
Every film fan has those extra special movies that stay with them through the thick and thin. These are the kinds that you may have discovered at a young age and decades later you still love them as much or hopefully even more than you did the first time you experienced them. The really unique ones just get better with age like a fine wine. It may have nothing to [read...] 
Criterion Collection’s May releases include three films I wanted to highlight since they haven’t been on the label until now. Delmer Daves was one of the most accomplished filmmakers of his time. His directorial debut was Destination Tokyo (1943) starring Cary Grant. He then made the film noir classic Dark Passage in 1947 with Humphrey Bogart. Throughout the 1950s he worked in several different genres but became best known for [read...] 
Quentin Tarantino‘s latest .44 magnum opus Django Unchained marks his first foray into the Western genre (well, it’s actually more of a Southern) and also gives us his take on the “hero origin” story. Unlike his epic Kill Bill where we don’t know how the story of Beatrix Kiddo aka Black Mamba/The Bride began, the saga of Django shows us his transformation from slave to folkloric legend. The opening scenes [read...] 
Writer-Director Michael Crichton’s 1973 sci-fi/western cult classic WESTWORLD is set in the “near future” where the technological advances have helped to create a new kind of adult themed amusement park called DELOS is populated by computerized androids who appear to be human and are used to bring visitor’s fantasies to life. DELOS is comprised of three separate worlds vacationers can inhabit: Medieval World (Ancient Europe), Roman World (Ancient Rome) and [read...] 
One of the subgenres of the Western is known as the Zapata Western and these stories took place specifically during the Mexican Revolution. Some of the most well known titles would include Italian entries like Sergio Leone’s Duck You Sucker (aka Fistful of Dynamite), Damiano Damiani’s A Bullet For the General as well as American classics like Viva Zapata! and The Professionals. The Five Man Army (1969) Directed by Don [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. This is another guest post in the series by Simon Gelten (one of the most prolific writers onThe Spaghetti Western Database), make sure [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. This is another guest post in the series by Simon Gelten (one of the most prolific writers onThe Spaghetti Western Database), make [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. This is the third 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. This is the second guest post in the series by Simon Gelten (one of the most active writers on The Spaghetti Western Database), [read...] |
    
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