Sentences with phrase «classic western films»

The game received near universal acclaim from reviewers for taking the open world formula and drenching it in the style of classic Western films like A Fistful of Dollars and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

AMC is currently airing season one of «The Son,» which is averaging 2.3 million viewers each week, capping a day of classic Western films and television shows on Saturdays.

On more than one occasion, he makes reference to classic Western films from Stagecoach to The Searchers.

@eylanezekiel We honestly apologize, it was inspired by the sheriff's stars from the Classic Western films and is no longer in our stores

A work of great beauty and sadness and a crucial film that helped establish the tradition of the elegiac western, Ride the High Country laments both the passing of the West and of the classic Western film.

The Coen Brothers» set themselves up for a challenge by deciding to do a re-make of a classic Western film, True Grit, that starred John Wayne.

It is very well done, and feels like a classic western film.

Not exact matches

«What an audience expects of a contemporary Western is that it will either largely conform to the classic pattern of extolling the heroism of the cowboy, often a lawman cowboy, who has to defend the right in a wild setting, or, that the film will seek to undermine this pattern by means comedic or serious.

The Virginian (1929) is a classic western - a film adaptation of Owen Wister's 1902 western play and original novel.

Applying the episodic format and visual template of classic and spaghetti Westerns to a revenge saga mostly set in the Deep South just prior to the Civil War, the film makes a point of pushing the savagery of slavery to the forefront but does so in a way that rather amazingly dovetails with the heightened historical, stylistic and comic sensibilities at play.

A classic anti war film, All Quiet on the Western Front is a masterwork of filmmaking.

Kino Lorber's KL Classics division adds a new 2K Blu - ray restoration of Howard Hughes» incendiary and controversial western epic THE OUTLAW to their impressive list of film classic home video releases and to celebrate the occasion producer / host Dick Dinman revisits his previous chat with the late OUTLAW sensation Jane Russell which is presented uncut and unedited for the very first time.

If the film failed to live up to expectations (though personally I thought it was OK) then surely the score could not be accused of such a thing; delightfully recalling Bernstein's classic western scores, it features several great themes, some rollicking action music and one chance after another to just have a smile on your face.

OPENING THIS WEEK by Kam Williams For movies opening September 7, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS 3:10 to Yuma (R for violence and profanity) Christian Bale and Russell Crowe co-star in this remake of the 1957 classic Western about the dangerous gauntlet across the desert negotiated by a broke rancher out to collect a bounty for escorting an outlaw man to a train waiting to transport the wanted man to justice.

The two genres have a history of interchange, be it the influence of classic Westerns on the films of John Carpenter (who even penned two obscure Westerns, El Diablo and Blood River) and George A. Romero or the parallel development of the giallo and the spaghetti Western in Italy.

With every gunshot, every battle, every flinch - inducing act of violence, Bale's steely demeanor sets a plodding, painstaking tone to a film meant to capture a different view of a classic Western.

The action is more intense and the drama is better portrayed with a closer adaptation of the original novel and while the classic westerns hold a certain place in my heart I doubt they've ever been able to portray the west as well and as beautifully as they did in this film.

Although not nearly the classic in the Western genre as Leone's other films, as an entity unto itself, especially when considering the works of a master director, its complexities make it more than worthwhile.

It was John Ford's first Western using sound, John Wayne's first highly acclaimed role, and the first Western shot in beautiful Monument Valley, Utah, and all of these elements truly elevated this film to a true classic.

Filmed in Monument Valley, Utah, the stunning cinematography by Michael Barrett consciously evokes the classic westerns of John Ford, who used the same locale.

His cinematography and camera orchestrations are as sumptuous as ever, almost worth watching without dialogue, and yet, he doesn't exactly offer anything new here — it occasionally seems like he is trying to remake his cult classic, Chungking Express, for a Western audience, with some of the more interesting bits of his other films tossed in for good measure.

Of the more than 40 films he's directed this century, I've only seen a handful, but Yakuza Apocalypse is firmly in the tradition of earlier films like Sukiyaki Western Django, 13 Assassins and his remake of the Maskai Kobayashi classic Harakiri in their critique of the psychotic masculinity that underlies the ideology of Japanese action narratives.

A period Western with nods to Ford classics like «She Wore a Yellow Ribbon» and «The Searchers,» the picture is filming here at Ghost Ranch — 21,000 acres of God's country, 60 miles north of Santa Fe — where one - time resident Georgia O'Keeffe painted canvases with images of the mesa that towers in the distance.

I didn't mean that I hope there's a wave of remakes, just that there might be an interest in classic American genres like film noir and the western once again.

A look at our SXSW 2015 coverage, a supercut of first and final frames from some classic films, and a recommendation for the Iranian vampire western A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night help make up this week's Top 5.

From the classic to the obscure, the Arrow Video collection encompasses all styles and genres: horror films and Westerns, science fiction and sex comedies, yakuza epics and neo-noirs, the subversive, the transgressive and the unclassifiable.

Sure, that classic film offers up a splashy Grauman's Chinese movie premiere, and the canyons that have served as the backdrop to a thousand Westerns, but it never captures that uniquely Southern California atmosphere, where the blisteringly bright sunlight fights its way through a hazy sky to deliver its glow to the hills, the swimming pools and the clogged freeways.

If anything, this film in many ways is a homage to masters of the American Western like John Ford and Howard Hawks; in fact, there is a direct tribute to Ford's 1956 classic The Searchers, the film Hostiles most recalled for me.

The film follows the classic western framework, as it slowly builds and builds to its exciting climax when Mattie, Cogburn, and La Beauf come face to face with end of their search.

During the yesterday's San Diego Comic - Con panel for The Hateful Eight, director Quentin Tarantino, a huge admirer of classic Spaghetti Westerns, revealed that legendary composer Ennio Morricone will be providing an original score for the film.

The Natalie Portman - starring western Jane Got a Gun (a by - now infamously troubled production), finally set to premier at the end of January, features Portman as one of two or three women in the entire film; contrast that with indie drama About Ray and the hotly contested remake of the Ivan Reitman classic Ghost Busters, a production attempting to further distinguish itself by pushing the words together to form Ghostbusters — how crafty.

When Antoine Fuqua met with MGM to begin discussions about The Magnificent Seven, the big screen remake of the 1960s Western by the same name (which is based on the Japanese classic film, Seven Samurai), there weren't any major actors attached to the movie.

This weak riff on Sergio Leone's classic western — just a little too pathetic to be endearing — sets the general tone for the film's dialogue and humour, which runs the gamut from «that's what she said» to «your mum».

As he told me when we sat down recently at Craig's restaurant, this time it is different as he and Hugh Jackman's Wolverine aka Logan are taking these characters in a very different kind of direction in a film that more resembles a classic Western like Shane than the Marvel comic book movies from which those characters emerged.

Filled with elegiac shots of the river, the dessert and the sky — squarely in the tradition of classic Hollywood Westerns — the film is often mesmerizing and beautiful.

So there's a bit of a Western thing going on in «Faster», which otherwise seems mostly influenced by gritty 1960 - 70s revenge films like «Point Blank» or «Rolling Thunder», with shades of John Woo's Hong Kong classics as well.

Also available on DVD as part of the four - film set Classic Western Round - up Vol.

The film's stunningly beautiful locations are also reminiscent of many a John Ford classic, and the themes of survival and vengeance will certainly be familiar if you're a fan of the classic Westerns.

From there, the film feels a lot like a classic western, specifically the classic True Grit (1969), in that a snarky teenage protagonist must learn to adapt in order to survive in a harsh environment.

Set in the Outback in the 1920s, the film absolutely nails the poise of the best classic westerns, painfully weaving the thorns of colonialist inevitability into its fabric.

Subsequent to Village of the Damned (1995), an uninspired remake of the 1960 classic science fiction film, Carpenter directed three films that virtually deconstruct, reinvent and cross-fertilize the western genre.

In a film that's packed full of knowing references to movie classics, Ennio Morricone's soundtrack wisely steers clear of echoing his work in the Spaghetti Westerns that made him famous.

But the folks at Pixar are more thoughtful than that, invoking the almost religious reverence of the great outdoors of classic great plains westerns and the films of Werner Herzog.

This spaghetti western, while paling in comparison to the classic Sergio Leone «Dollars» trilogy, still was a very influential film in its genre, spawning as many as fifty unofficial sequels.

Details Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios kick - off their Reel Classics summer film series continues with a screening of John Ford's epic western The Searchers (1956), 2 and 7 pm, June 27, at select Cinemark theaters.

While on the publicity tour for Deadpool 2, the film's co-star Ryan Reynolds and Josh Brolin stopped by The Late Late Show with James Corden to have some fun with a a parody of the classic western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

As I mentioned in my review of «Gangster Squad» last week, the screenplay was plainly built around classic Western conventions — one Western film in particular.

Also note the great Pink Panther sequel A Shot in the Dark on Monday (RIP Blake Edwards), John Ford's Cavalry trilogy plus classic western Rio Bravo on Wednesday, a double feature of horse - centric family features in National Velvet and The Black Stallion on Thursday, plus a whole string of classic Disney live - action family films on Sunday, including Old Yeller, Swiss Family Robinson, and The Parent Trap.

Lew Ayres, who starred in the classic 1931 anti-war film (and Best Picture Academy Award winner), «All Quiet on the Western Front,» was so affected by that movie, he became a conscientious objector and served as a medic in World War II (and was later to earn a Best Actor nomination for «Johnny Belinda»).

More than a play on Wayne's classic Western mystique, the film allowed him to subvert some of his own conventions with humor and sentimentality, as Cogburn partners with a determined 14 - year - old girl to find the man (Jeff Corey) who murdered her father.