As if on cue, a swell of new oaters has tumbled into view this year to prove as much, and each of them in their own way plays less like a period piece than it does a mirror.
The filmmaker's fetishes here include Western trappings (from the plot inspired by TV oaters to the mostly - new Ennio Morricone score) and a «roadshow» size and shape (the Ultra Panavision 70 film format).