Sentences with phrase «from classic western»

Whereas Altair questioned Western conceptions of who could serve as a hero, Ezio drew from classic Western hero archetypes such as Zorro, the Scarlet Pimpernel, and even Batman.
So Reichardt's attention to specificity and detail, her resistance to something grand and sweeping with a big cast should indicate to us, too, that she wanted to do something different from the classic Western.
He draws thematic inspiration from classic Western director John Ford (specifically 1956's «The Searchers») and from his beloved»30s and»40s crime movies as well as the visual aesthetic of French New Wave auteurs.
In her early fifties, with high cheekbones and dark hair pulled back under a hat, she is both elegant and hardy, like a pioneer woman from a classic Western.
Join us as we study preassigned readings from classic Western Civilization texts in small - group seminars limited to 15 participants per group, with discussion facilitated by faculty members from Northeast Catholic College.
@eylanezekiel We honestly apologize, it was inspired by the sheriff's stars from the Classic Western films and is no longer in our stores
Were there moments from classic westerns that inspired this?
It trips the light fantastic ambling through idioms from classic westerns while piling on the CGI of nasty creatures from another world driving the action.
Better yet, the film is graced with James Coburn and a whole raft of veteran western players from classic westerns and TV series including Dub Taylor, Doug McClure, Henry Darrow, Robert Fuller, Denver Pyle, Leo Gordon, William Smith, James Drury, and Will Hutchins.
Instead, they crib from classic westerns and hodgepodge them into a potentially cohesive plot.

Not exact matches

It starts with a first - round classic from a year ago, a match - up between the NBA's two most popular players and finishes with a Western Conference showdown.
A Western New York classic for barbecue chicken, Chiavetta's boasts a full stand at the Erie County Fair, and chances are you can smell it from a great distance away.
The mountain ranges overlooking the Los Angeles basin that cradles the city, and the Pacific Ocean beyond, have served as the settings for cinematic fantasies ranging from Westerns to the classic detective stories of Raymond Chandler.
Bringing the boots from the»30s and»40s classic western movies into the 1950s, the iconic Hollywood actress poses for a Valentine's Day photo shoot.
A. From classic Indian to sassy western trend, we have got everything covered to meet the fashion needs and wishful desires of every individual B.
Silver snaps add a western - inspired vibe to the classic lines of this sharply tailored short sleeve shirt from Kenneth Cole Reaction.
These chic, suede shoes take their cues from timeless Western styling with classic stitching, stacked heels and feminine, crisscrossing straps.
«Solo» is a straightforward piece of pulpy entertainment with some very agreeable performances from Ehrenreich and Glover, who seems to be having the most fun of all the actors in playing up Lando's suave demeanor, and fun classic Western flourishes, despite the excessively big action sequences.
On more than one occasion, he makes reference to classic Western films from Stagecoach to The Searchers.
Crichton shoots it mainly from the villain's perspective, thereby reducing the classic western brawl — Dr. Larry flies through panes of glass as though they're saloon windows — to crude virtual reality.
From the moment Chris Cooper's union rep arrives to conciliate between miners and company, the scene is set for the classic confrontation we associate with the western.
Based on the true story of four young, talented Aboriginal girls in the Sixties, «The Sapphires», starring Chris O'Dowd, Deborah Mailman, newcomers Shari Sebens, Miranda Tapsell and Australian pop singer Jessica Mauboy, follows the all - girl group from Country and Western classics in an «unfriendly» outback pub to soul singing stars to the troops during the Vietnam War.
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.
The poster brings the main players from the movie together in one place, honoring the tone and feel of classic Westerns by paying homage to wanted posters that were once scattered around frontier towns.
It was, in fact, the most successful «serious» superhero movie since the Nolan days, though rather than take its cues from urban noir, it offered a postapocalyptic variation on a classic Western odyssey: The titular hero protects a young mutant girl on their journey to the Canadian border.
In The Hidden Fortress (Criterion, Blu - ray + DVD Combo, DVD), Akira Kurosawa melds western fairy tale adventure with Japanese history for a pre-Samurai era classic of a young princess and a determined General (the gruff ruthless, and often comically exasperated Toshiro Mifune) trying to escape from behind enemy lines with a fortune in royal gold.
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.
«The Hateful Eight» has the things audiences expect from a Quentin Tarantino movie - long scenes, superb dialogue, an imaginative take on a classic genre (this time it's the Western) and the casting of neglected actors worthy of rediscovery.
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.
A western remake of Akira Kurosawa's Japanese classic «The Seven Samurai,» «The Magnificent Seven» has Yul Brynner leading a band of gunslingers hired to protect a tiny Mexican village from the ravages of bandits who come to steal the crops and rape the women.
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.
Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Christian Bale and Russell Crowe Match Wits in Remake of Classic Western from 1957 Dan Evans (Christian Bale) is a down - and - out rancher who's struggling to save his cattle during a prolonged drought.
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But in classic Western tradition, the tale is largely a journey from point A to point B, from crime to punishment.
The Yul Brynner - starring original from 1973 expertly fuses futuristic science fiction and classic western tropes.
Technical issues aside, Nightwar is an excellent well - crafted modern take on the classic JRPG style from a Western developer.
And in 1956, he directed both a classic Western («Seven Men from Now») and a neglected semi-classic low - budget noir, «The Killer is Loose.»
Near the end of the series run, however, he transitioned from TV actor to international film icon in Sergio Leone's 1964 classic Western A Fistful of Dollars, launching a long collaboration with the director that included For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.
Antoine Fuqua's remake of the classic 1960 western, itself a retooling of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, stars Denzel Washington as a bounty hunter hired to protect a desert town from a ruthless industrialist.
Olive Films released a slate of classics from the Paramount catalog on Blu - ray, from John Wayne's pre - «Stagecoach» B - westerns to Betty Boop cartoons to cult noirs like «Cry Danger» and «Sleep My Love.»
The town of Fort Smith, an assemblage of oddballs torn from the pages of Western novels and the backlots of classic Hollywood studios, is unprepared for Mattie Ross.
Like The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Tenderness of Wolves is a classic «western» in which the raw and rugged people are dwarfed by their surroundings as they find their way towards, or away from, hard - won redemption.
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At a time when it's difficult to find even one well - written Classic Western, it's great to get a 6 - Book Box Set with 6 very good Classic Westerns from 6 bestselling authors.
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