This weeks’ double feature is just a little short because… okay I confess I was weak. I could not watch the first film in this week’s selection, Heaven’s Gate in its entirety. I toughed out the first hour and a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My original intent for this week’s selection was westerns from the Native perspective. But in the long run it ended up being films about white men gone native. My first film, A Man Called Horse, tells the story of John[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week was a bit of a bust. My idea for a topic was Western Musicals. I think the reason for this was it seemed to be too genres that clash in an amusing way but seriously, I’d heard of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s I was initially planning to do a couple of westerns in general but as I found I couldn’t find a couple of the titles I had listed, I narrowed it down to one of the great teams[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I thought I’d return to westerns once again only this time look at the funny side of the genre with western parodies. Regrettably, I’ve seen the greatest of these, Blazing Saddles so many times that I can recite a lot[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I decided to watch some of the great western epics that both deconstruct the genre of the Western and in the process essentially do a biopsy of the end of an era. The first on my list, Sam[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
