Pistoleers & Pioneers Vol. 1: Ten Western Classics To Die For
HANNIE CAULDER (1970) (SWDB entry) – Directed by Burt Kennedy – One of Western cinema’s oldest themes is revenge. With this groundbreaking film, instead...
The Western Ain’t Dead, Damnit!
In the 60s, they said the western was dead, in the 80s, the 90s and the 2000s (is there a proper name for that...
My Love for the Classics
A year back, I was traveling back from Chicago to Delhi, on the Air India flight. It was a long flight, close to 14...
The Treasure of The Sierra Madre
Director John Huston’s 1948 masterpiece The Treasure of The Sierra Madre is a morality tale disguised as an adventure film. It opens in 1920s...
Valerio Zurlini’s Violent Summer
In the Summer of 1943 in the Italian town of Rimini, a group of teens welcome back their friend Carlo Caremoli (Jean Louis Trintignant)....
Akira Kurosawa’s SANJURO
Sanjuro (Toshiro Mifune) is a ronin (renegade samurai) looking for food and money. He overhears a group of 10 samurai warriors talking and finds...
STYLE WARS
NEW YORK CITY, 1982, The war is on between graffiti artists known as “taggers”, “bombers”, “burners” and the police on the streets of the...
The Dude Abides: An Appreciation of The Big Lebowski
The Big Lebowski (1998) went from sleeper hit to a full fledged cult classic spawning all kinds of fan clubs and even a Lebowski...
