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Articles tagged "westerns"NewsBudd Boetticher’s low-budget ‘50s Westerns celebrated in new box setby Bruce Dancis [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)][3.Nov.08] :. To call a film a “B-movie” gives it a name that almost assumes mediocrity. This was the moniker applied to the second film on a typical Hollywood movie double bill back in the days when... NewsA non-Western guy’s great Westernby Connie Ogle [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][4.Jun.08] :. Is novelist Leif Enger trying single-handedly to resurrect the Great American Western? Readers may wonder, but he says no. “I just wanted to write the story I want to write,” Enger... NewsHistoric ‘Big Trail’ makes widescreen DVD debutby Doug Nye [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)][13.May.08] :. One of the great Hollywood fables is that the 1930 Western epic “The Big Trail” was a box-office failure because of its young star, John Wayne. It definitely was a financial flop, but it...  NewsCBS’ `Commanche Moon’ is no best Westernby Diane Werts [Newsday (MCT)][11.Jan.08] :. They don’t make miniseries like they used to. “Comanche Moon” shows why that’s a bad thing. And a good thing. There’s the epic feel of sweeping Western vistas, of... PopMatters Pick Film ReviewThe Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Fordby Cynthia Fuchs[21.Sep.07] :. By turns brutal and lyrical, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford considers Wild Western mythology and masculinity, violence and madness.  NewsWrestling with the Duke: Love him or loathe him?by Carrie Rickey [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)][24.May.07] :. John Wayne swaggered like a rodeo bull, thundered like a storm over Monument Valley, and towered over the West like a craggy butte. And he looms as large in death as he did on-screen. Duke, as he... |
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