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post #16 of 23
10/25/08 at 8:40pm
Tombstone was the shit.
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post #17 of 23
10/26/08 at 7:36am
My all time fave is Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West". have watched this at least 7-8 times and own a 16mm version of it. Sheer grandeur, breathtakingly poetic, epic scale ... and Claudia Cardinale! Filled with great quotes:

How can you trust a man who wears both a belt and suspenders? The man can't even trust his own pants.

-Listen Harmonica, a town billed around the station, we would make a fortune. Hundreds of thousands of dollars. Hey, more than that ... thousands of thousands of dollars!
-They call 'm millions.

- The reward for this man is 5000 dollars, is that right?
- Judas was content for 4970 dollars less
- There were no dollars in those days
- But sons of bitches: yeah

- What are we going to do with this one, Frank?
- Now that you've called me by name?

Tell me, was it necessary that you kill all of them? I only told you to scare them.

My weapons might look simple to you, Mr. Morton, but they can still shoot holes big enough for our little problems

And perhaps one of my top 5 all-time quotes from any movie or genre:

You remind me of my mother. She was the biggest whore in Alameda and the finest woman that ever lived. Whoever my father was, for an hour or for a month, he must have been a happy man


Then my faves (in order I remembered them):
-The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
-The Ox-Bow Incident
-High Noon
-The Long Riders
-Shane
-El Topo (great psychedelic-cum-existential western from Jodorowsky via Fellini - either the most astonishing film you've seen...or the worst!!!)
-Stagecoach and The Searchers (I find most of John Ford's other westerns over-rated e.g. My Darling Clementine, Rio Grande, Fort Apache, the silent Iron Horse and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon)
-The Unforgiven
-Glauber Rocha's astonishing Black God, White Devil - if you haven't seen this Brazilian masterpiece then highly recommend you do so
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058006/
-Red River
-The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
-Ride the High Country
-The Wild Bunch
-Anthony Mann's fabbo Man from Laramie, Winchester '73, The Far Country, The Naked Spur
-Gunfighter
-Rio Bravo
-The Long Riders
-Hud
-Bad Day at Black Rock
-Way Out West
-The Treasure of Sierra Madre
-Brokeback Mountain
-The 7 Samurai (Jap western? Does that count?)
-City Slickers, Russ Meyer's Wild Gals of the Naked West and Terror of Tiny Town (just kidding!)
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post #18 of 23
10/26/08 at 12:37pm
How about Shanghai Noon?
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post #19 of 23
10/26/08 at 12:42pm
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-Brokeback Mountain
that's an interesting inclusion. Certainly a great movie, and yup, about cowboys, but I have never thought of it as a western.
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post #20 of 23
10/26/08 at 8:05pm
I'm that oddity, a political liberal who is crazy about Westerns. There are so many good ones, but you can't go wrong with any of the classics directed by John Ford. I'd begin with Stagecoach, My Darling Clementine, Fort Apache, and The Searchers. You can graduate later to Wagonmaster, one of the most breathtakingly beautiful of all American movies.

The under-rated Delmer Daves directed a trio of corkers with Glenn Ford in the Fifties -- the original 3:10 to Yuma, which is a masterpiece; Jubal, very dark and Shakespearean; and the lighter, entertaining Cowboy, co-starring Jack Lemmon.

All the Westerns directed by Anthony Mann in the Fifties, many starring James Stewart, are must-sees without exception. Start with Winchester '73. Sam Peckinpah's Ride the High Country should not be missed. For a great movie set in the modern West, check out John Sturges's pulsatingly exciting Bad Day at Black Rock, with Spencer Tracy.

That's for starters.
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post #21 of 23
10/26/08 at 9:47pm
I'm a pretty decent fan, though most all of the good ones have been mentioned. Big Jake with John Wayne is pretty good.

I think a liberal interpretation of Western may include Quigley, Down Under.
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post #22 of 23
10/26/08 at 11:02pm
Quigley was better than most gave it credit.
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post #23 of 23
10/27/08 at 4:45am
Straight up Western-

'One-Eyed Jacks'
'The Ride Back'


Something unique-

'Django Kill...If You Live, Shoot!'
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