Sentences with phrase «old western films»
Straight out of an old Western film is Canyonlands, located in Moab, Utah — a dramatic desert landscape, where the Colorado River has snaked its way through the Earth with jaw - dropping results.
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A third film, The Law and the Prophets (McGraw - Hill Text Films, 1970; 51 min., 2 reels, color), not only offers a good summary of the Old Testament but also demonstrates the influence of the Bible on Western art, for, it shows great works of painting and sculpture inspired by the Bible.
I'm all cozied up in my pjs on the couch with my mom, sipping multiple cups of coffee, and watching the new episode of This Old House — which will probably be followed by a handful of cooking shows and / or westerns and / or a really old movie I've never heard of but my mom swears is the greatest thing ever recorded on fiOld House — which will probably be followed by a handful of cooking shows and / or westerns and / or a really old movie I've never heard of but my mom swears is the greatest thing ever recorded on fiold movie I've never heard of but my mom swears is the greatest thing ever recorded on film.
The film understands that it is about revenge (as so many westerns are), but it never gets under the skin like No Country for Old Men or deconstructs the concept through brutality in the manner of Get Carter.
«The Grand Old Man of Westerns,» as film historian William K. Everson called him, retired in the early»40s after more than three decades of yeoman work opposite every cowboy hero on the Hollywood range, from Franklyn Farnum to Gary Cooper.
The Universal Pictures film about an old - school lawman (Richard Widmark) in a Texas town, trying to «modernize,» who comes into conflict with the elders after killing a man in self - defense, was originally directed by TV Westerns helmer Robert Totten, a veteran of «Gunsmoke» and «Bonanza.»
2015 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL: Scottish director John Maclean mimics the heart and charisma of the old western with his feature film debut «Slow West» starring Kodi Smit - McPhee and Academy Award nominee Michael FassbenFILM FESTIVAL: Scottish director John Maclean mimics the heart and charisma of the old western with his feature film debut «Slow West» starring Kodi Smit - McPhee and Academy Award nominee Michael Fassbenfilm debut «Slow West» starring Kodi Smit - McPhee and Academy Award nominee Michael Fassbender.
I mean that it sounds like a western movie to the point where I found myself wondering if they hadn't just gone back and picked up their sounds from the old Hollywood films.
Cormac McCarthy's apocalyptic western thriller No Country for Old Men was filmed with passion and style by the Coen brothers: a dark and disquieting Texan movie to compare with their debut, Blood Simple.
Tarantino is a massive film buff and historian and uses the idea of the old spaghetti westerns as the backdrop of the story.
At different times sounding like an old - fashioned western musical and terrifying horror film, Greenwood's string - heavy score was at atmospheric triumph.
Among the film's countless offspring, count, too, the Coens» double - bill of noir - infected border westerns Blood Simple and No Country for Old Men, as well as the oeuvre of Cormac McCarthy.
Verbinski litters the film with references to old TV Western serials, John Ford's Monument Valley, and especially Once Upon A Time In The West, which it quotes both in the score and in a subplot about the railroads bringing order to the Wild West.
In both films, old - school order must bow in resignation to the new state of capitalist - inflected criminal affairs, but unlike the Coens» postmodern western, Cut Bank never offers a pointed directorial perspective on these matters, and indeed never really develops a committed focus in any particular aesthetic or thematic direction.
This essay is timely in its discussion of the Coens and the Western because the Coens» latest film, True Grit — a more traditional Western — is opposite No Country for Old Men in terms of nihilism: True Grit helps preserve social order while No Country for Old Men deconstructs it.
In «Home Movies», Howard talks about three short 8 mm westerns he made as a teenager, and those three films («The Deed of Daring Do», «Cards, Cads, Guns, Gore, and Death», and «Old Paint») are included here.
Something of a counterculture western, this beguiling film pairs two of Hollywood's most watchable stars - Paul Newman and Robert Redford - as peaceable, old - school bandits trying to make it on the increasingly civilized frontier.
Like a heist film crossed with a western, Solo is also a love story, with Han reconnecting with old flame Qi» ra (Emilia Clarke).
2015 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL: Scottish director John Maclean mimics the heart and charisma of the old western with his feature film debut «Slow West»FILM FESTIVAL: Scottish director John Maclean mimics the heart and charisma of the old western with his feature film debut «Slow West»film debut «Slow West»...
The Coen brothers» 2007 film No Country For Old Men is unlike the traditional westerns it pays homage to.
This is a riveting story of the old frontier but also a meditation on the Western, not least the sub-genre that draws on the violent heritage of the Civil War, which Tarantino quite rightly, in this film and in Django Unchained, identifies as the foundation myth of modern America, in sharp oppostion to the more comforting myths around the pursuit of human rights and liberty.
The 23 - year - old actress plays the role of mute woman Liv in the western film alongside Guy...
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.
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.
The feature film debut by western New South Wales writer and director Cate Shortland that adroitly tells of a mixed up 16 - year - old's perplexing, perilous and sensitive coming - of - age story.
Sukiyaki Western Django - which has been filmed entirely in English, though most of the actors clearly aren't native speakers of the language - follows a mysterious stranger (Hideaki Ito) as he rolls into a prototypically violent Old West Town, where he quickly finds himself caught smack - dab in the middle of a feud between two warring clans.
Over three features — 45365, Tchoupitoulas, and their gorgeous new film, Western — Bill and Turner Ross have established themselves as both vérité torch - bearers and subtly expressive filmmakers of a more recent vintage, closer to the late Michael Glawogger (Workingman's Death) than the direct - cinema masters of old.
The western seems to be one of the least likely genre films for a reinvention that works, but somehow first time writer - director John M. McLean does it beautifully — creating a whole new thing out of a collection of old - feeling pieces.
It is the type of film that might not appeal to fans of Westerns, but those who have even a little appreciation for the old frontier that have never seen this feature need to.
Based on Fred Gipson's best - selling book, and simplistically focusing on an old Western family and the big yellow dog that comes into their lives, Old Yeller is one of the few films I know of that doesn't leave room for improvemeold Western family and the big yellow dog that comes into their lives, Old Yeller is one of the few films I know of that doesn't leave room for improvemeOld Yeller is one of the few films I know of that doesn't leave room for improvement.
His new cannibal western Bone Tomahawk is the closing night film and he'll also attend the closing night party, a «rootin'tootin» old - time celebration of cannibalistic savagery.»
12 or so «old» films, in the order in which I saw them: Night and the City (UK version, Jules Dassin, 1950): on 35 mm nitrate (May, Rochester) Until They Get Me (Frank Borzage, 1917): an incredibly advanced Western, on 35 mm (June, Bologna); Secrets (Frank Borzage, 1924) was also notable, DCP West Indies (Med Hondo, 1979): 35 mm, anamorphic color print (Bologna) Furcht (Fear, Robert Wiene, 1917): German «impressionism» before «expressionism,» 35 mm (Bologna) Mit hem är Copacabana (My Home is Copacabana, Arne Sucksdorff, 1965): A Swedish documentarian meets Brazilian Cinema Novo, DCP (July, Bologna) El rebozo de Soledad (Soledad's Shawl, Roberto Gavaldón, 1952), DCP (Bologna) Where would the Mexican Cine de Oro have been without Gabriel Figueroa's cinematography?
Eastwood's film was a brilliant take on the Western genre as it touched on the darker aspects of the Old West of legend.
From the scenes and game footage we have seen thus far, Rockstar has the very essence of the old west, both from a historical stand point and of course some of the most iconic western films we have seen over the years.
I'd seen this film a long time ago but when I saw it again this time, I had a much better appreciation of the Aboriginal way of being and the thing that really struck me in this film was there was a section of the film where they were going to do this aeroplane song and dance corroboree and they were getting ready for it and you know there are all these Elders and you know very wise and respected Elders you know making their costumes they were gonna wear, talking about how it was gonna be and in amongst all these people there's little children you know of one 1 or 2 or 3 years old who were just crawling around and you know watching and listening, trying on their head - dresses and they were completely welcomed into that adult community, there was no sense of, you know this is grown up business, you kids go off and play which is very much the western model.
You'd be forgiven for thinking that the ranch could fit perfectly into an old Western movie, as it has indeed been featured in a number of Western films.