Sunday, 12 April 2020

The Western Genre

An attempt to distinguish the difference between favourite (films that are important to the viewer) and greatest (films that are important to the industry).
We start with the Western; a group of films ideally set in the American West that chronicle the ways of frontier life.

Favourites:
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 
For A Few Dollars More
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Great Silence
The Revenant 
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Unforgiven 
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
McCabe and Mrs Miller
The Wild Bunch 
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Ox-bow Incident 
The Magnificent Seven (1960)

Greatest:
Stagecoach 
My Darling Clementine 
High Noon 
Shane 
Johnny Guitar 
The Searchers
Rio Bravo 
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 
A Fistful of Dollars 
Once Upon a Time in the West  
The Wild Bunch 
McCabe and Mrs Miller 
Dances With Wolves
Unforgiven 
No Country for Old Men 

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