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Post by Sharbs on Sept 7, 2018 18:03:15 GMT
For all you itinerant tinkers out there who haven't seen McCabe & Mrs Miller yet - it was just today added to FilmStruck! Watch, re-watch, tell your friends, holler it from the tops of buildings. And then vote in the poll ! REALLY glad I spent 4 bucks two weeks ago to watch it. twas worth it
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 10, 2018 14:04:16 GMT
It's weird I just started doing this and kind of was surprised how conservative my list is so far - like NCFOM is one of my favorite films period - but to list it here seemed like cheating so those "neo Westerns" to me they're all out. Like if you were talking to me I'd list it and a bunch of others, but when you start writing them down and have them side by side it's like you basically have to die in the dirt, a hundred years ago minimum, there's got to be a saloon, drinking whiskey, the bad guy has to have a hat.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Sept 13, 2018 7:06:43 GMT
I guess I'll try to throw something together because I've seen a couple good westerns lately (fyc Hombre) Have a lot to see but a month is a long time.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2018 21:32:46 GMT
Sent!
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Post by countjohn on Sept 16, 2018 0:23:38 GMT
I was planning to skip this one. Westerns aren't my favorite genre so I haven't seen near as many old Hollywood "deep cuts" in the genre as I have for the romantic melodramas and weepies for example. But I saw I didn't have to do the full top 25 and put a top 15 together.
Most of my list was pretty generic. Here are FYC's for non-obvious ones I voted for
FYC:
The Ox-Bow Incident How the West Was Won (huge movie, but no one has referenced it in the thread yet) Blazing Saddles The Great Train Robbery (1903) (asked Vice in my PM if shorts were eligible, so we'll see what he says)
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Post by Viced on Sept 16, 2018 2:03:00 GMT
The Great Train Robbery (1903) (asked Vice in my PM if shorts were eligible, so we'll see what he says) Ineligible because I don't know who the hell Vice is.
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Post by countjohn on Sept 16, 2018 3:17:06 GMT
The Great Train Robbery (1903) (asked Vice in my PM if shorts were eligible, so we'll see what he says) Ineligible because I don't know who the hell Vice is. oopsie.
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Post by jimmalone on Sept 19, 2018 16:40:39 GMT
If we won't use the Pre-WWI-rule would "Lonely are the Brave (1962, David Miller) be eligible?
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Sept 27, 2018 22:07:46 GMT
so this is what I plan on seeing before the vote:
Tombstone Pale Rider Jeremiah Johnson McCabe and Mrs. Miller Monte Walsh Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid The Wild Bunch The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (saw it years ago, needs revisiting) For a Few Dollars More One-Eyed Jacks
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Post by Mattsby on Sept 27, 2018 23:45:22 GMT
• High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood, 1973) Wanna give an extra shout out to this one bc I've been thinking about it recently. It's a simple but focused premise, with haunting touches (like those harsh shadowy flashbacks), some striking sequences and score, the memorable paint-the-town-red finale. Clint's first helmed Western and the way he handles his character - introduced as a menacing rapist and gradually becomes sort of heroic, while perhaps a questionable arc, it also arguably creates an internal contradiction that is both complex and daring.
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Post by eyebrowmorroco on Sept 28, 2018 5:22:14 GMT
FYC: Budd Boetticher
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Post by Viced on Oct 5, 2018 20:53:36 GMT
Alright folks... the results are finally in and films set after World War I are officially ELIGIBLE.
But let's please try to keep it to stuff that actually resembles a traditional western...
The deadline to vote has been moved to December 2nd. I know that's a big extension, but we're at less than 10 ballots right now... everyone is focused on horror this month... so November will give people time to refocus on the western and get around to whatever else they can before the deadline.... and that includes me.
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Post by themoviesinner on Oct 23, 2018 17:42:34 GMT
FYC: The Dark Valley (2014) Meek's Cutoff (2010) Keoma (1976) The Great Silence (1968) Death Rides A Horse (1967) Blood On The Land (1966) Django (1966) Black God, White Devil (1964) Ride Lonesome (1959) Decision At Sundown (1957) The Tall T (1957) The Naked Spur (1953)
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Post by themoviesinner on Oct 24, 2018 9:18:24 GMT
themoviesinner Nice to see some Budd Boetticher love... what about Seven Men from Now though? That's my favorite film of his I've seen so far... I actually haven't seen that one, but I will definitely seek it out. Budd Boetticher was certainly a master when it comes to Westerns.
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 26, 2018 20:39:55 GMT
I've watched such a small number of Westerns that I'm not sure I'll ever be able to participate, but I'll try to catch up with some of the FYCs and see what I can come up with.
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Post by Joaquim on Nov 2, 2018 21:49:38 GMT
Think I might dedicate this month to binge watching the FYCs in this thread since I've seen an alarmingly little amount of westerns. Got exactly 1 month to send a ballot in.
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Post by Viced on Nov 3, 2018 5:31:04 GMT
Yep.... October and horror is over folks.
Time to hop on the western wagon this month!
giddyup, bitches.
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Post by stephen on Nov 28, 2018 17:23:00 GMT
"It's a helluva thing, running a poll. Take away all he's got, and all he's ever gonna have."
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Post by Pavan on Nov 28, 2018 17:39:38 GMT
I'll send my ballot before the deadline.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Nov 29, 2018 5:23:25 GMT
ditto Pavan and FYC One-Eyed Jacks
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Post by Mattsby on Nov 29, 2018 22:52:21 GMT
Broken Lance is ok, solid performances, but too ploddingly placed, even at 90m. Widmark has a good line-- "Anybody that throws ten thousand dollars in a spittoon makes me nervous." Reminded me of the much better The Big Country which came a couple years later. THREE MORE DAYS PEOPLE, VOTE! Or is it TWO MORE DAYS? In that case.......
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Post by Mattsby on Nov 30, 2018 2:33:48 GMT
more on Two Rode Together if anyone happened to be curious about it.....
Well, I'm no John Ford fan (haven't seen a bunch, but gimme Howard Hawks any day) but it's pretty good especially the set-up and performances. It's known for a five-minute one take static shot btwn Stewart and Widmark and it's kind of a marvel, everything from the characters and themes and humor of the piece are all tied together. Overall maybe too loaded with themes and plot and it's tonally spotty bc of some slapstick scenes (cue Andy Devine bowling people down with his big belly). There's a mean streak to it though and some complex darker elements - what it says about a (white) passive prejudice society and racial identity. Stewart is the standout - stripped of levity, tense and serious, he has some really heated moments here.
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Post by stephen on Nov 30, 2018 3:13:19 GMT
Are Broken Lance and Cheyyene Autumn any good? Broken Lance is greaaaaaaaaaaat! Don't listen to Mattsby... you'll love Widmark and Tracy in it. Haven't seen the other one yet. How are y'all gonna talk about Broken Lance and not bring up the amazing Katy Jurado? Seriously, she was queen of the Western scene back in the day. High Noon, Broken Lance, The Badlanders . . . I'd argue there wasn't a more smoldering, badass beauty who would cut your throat as soon as look at ya.
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Post by Viced on Nov 30, 2018 5:09:12 GMT
Broken Lance is greaaaaaaaaaaat! Don't listen to Mattsby... you'll love Widmark and Tracy in it. Haven't seen the other one yet. How are y'all gonna talk about Broken Lance and not bring up the amazing Katy Jurado? Seriously, she was queen of the Western scene back in the day. High Noon, Broken Lance, The Badlanders . . . I'd argue there wasn't a more smoldering, badass beauty who would cut your throat as soon as look at ya. Can we talk Ernie in The Badlanders? Honestly might be my second favorite performance from him.
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Post by stephen on Nov 30, 2018 5:11:16 GMT
How are y'all gonna talk about Broken Lance and not bring up the amazing Katy Jurado? Seriously, she was queen of the Western scene back in the day. High Noon, Broken Lance, The Badlanders . . . I'd argue there wasn't a more smoldering, badass beauty who would cut your throat as soon as look at ya. Can we talk Ernie in The Badlanders? Honestly might be my second favorite performance from him. He's absolutely crackerjack in it, but come on -- when wasn't Ernie kicking ass on screen? He's my runner-up that same year for The Vikings, but I do nod him for The Badlanders as well. And of course, it must be said that he steals the show in The Wild Bunch.
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