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19. The Man from Laramie
by Sam Juliano Anthony Mann passed away before he could realize his long-intended western based on Shakespeare’s King Lear, but a persuasive argument could still be made that both Man of the West and...
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LARS VON TRIER’S ‘DOGVILLE’: “When I come to decipher you, I get get...
© 2013 by James Clark This exciting film plays out along two ranges of discernment. There is a foreground from out of which the protagonist, Grace, musters an increasingly enigmatic saga of...
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18. The Ox-Bow Incident
by John Greco At this point in his career, Henry Fonda was not happy with most of the films he had made. Steinbeck’s classic novel, “The Grapes of Wrath,” was certainly one he was proud of, and thanks...
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17. Johnny Guitar
by Pedro Silva François Truffaut proclaimed Johnny Guitar “La Belle et la Bête du western”. American audiences “didn’t know what to make of it, so they either ignored it or laughed at it” points...
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16. My Darling Clementine
by John Greco In John Ford’s 1962 late career masterpiece, “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” there’s a line quoted by the town’s newspaper editor, Maxwell Scott, “This is the West, sir. When the...
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Mike on Godard’s ‘Vivre Sa Vie’
by Mike Norton Opening with a shot of a man and a woman at a bar with their backs turned to us establishes the realism of Vivre sa vie right off the bat. That woman is Nana (Anna Karina), an aspiring...
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Nebraska, The Book Thief, Tennessee Williams’ Play ‘The Mutilated’ and...
Eric Lampmann and Ruthers Marching Band at High Point Solutions Stadium in Piscataway, New Jersey on Saturday afternoon during Rutgers-Cincinnati game Mink Stole and Penny Arcade in Tennessee Williams’...
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15. Red River (1948)
by Brandie Ashe It’s 1851, and an entire generation of Americans is shifting westward, seeking to settle the untamed lands on the other side of the Mississippi River. Among them is Tom Dunson (John...
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14. Shane (1953) – Directed by George Stevens
There are westerns with greater size and scope (The Searchers). There are westerns that are more taut and suspenseful (High Noon). There are westerns that are more pure (Seven Men From Now) and filled...
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13. The Naked Spur
by Ed Howard Another filmmaker with a distinctly moral perspective in his films was Anthony Mann, the premier stylist of the American Western. The Naked Spur is the third entry in Mann’s run of...
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12. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
By Dean Treadway The passage of time, and of eras, overwhelms the first frames as cinematographer Roger Deakins aims his camera into the ether, catching time-lapsed storm clouds speeding through the...
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11. Winchester ’73
By Stephen Mullen Winchester 73 was the first collaboration between James Stewart and Anthony Mann, the beginning of an extremely successful partnership. The film itself is very innovative – it...
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Mike on ‘Raging Bull’
by Mike Norton How does one begin to write about their favorite movie of all time? A better question might be why would anyone want to write about their favorite movie? Sam has basically given me free...
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Philomena, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and the last leg of Western...
by Sam Juliano Freezing temperatures have descended on the northeast, as families prepare for Turkey Day and and an extended late November weekend. This is as always the most fruitful part of the...
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10. McCabe and Mrs. Miller
by James Clark McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) is so unmistakably about dimming lights that we have to take special care not to miss its profoundly difficult discoveries and associated cinematic...
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9. High Noon (1952)
By Tony d’Ambra Growing up in an inner-city suburb of Sydney in the 50s and before my Dad bought us a b&w television, every Saturday he would take my younger brother and me to the local cinema for...
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8. Stagecoach (1939)
by Brandie Ashe In 1939, John Ford made what was arguably the most important film of his career: Stagecoach. Now, that is not to say that Stagecoach is necessarily his “best” film; that, of course, is...
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“How can we fix this?” Jia Zhangke’s ‘A Touch of Sin’
© 2013 by James Clark Having just come away from von Trier’s Dogville (2003), in its installation of austerity so dark that the viewer is required to visit its laboratory-like showroom many...
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7. The Wild Bunch (1969)
By Dean Treadway For years, I had not seen Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch in full. I had caught bits of it on TV, or maybe at the drive-in, where my mom and dad had carried me along to check it out....
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Obscure Westerns: Marshal of Reno (1944)
by Jaime Grijalba. Do any of you know who or what Red Ryder is? From what I gather he is some kind of hero of the 40′s, linked exclusively to the western genre through a multiple amount of platforms...
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