“That’s when I finally realised the Western was dead”: Did this John Wayne movie kill the genre?
There was definitely an evolution, at the very least.
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‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’ movie review: Viggo Mortensen’s sophomore effort is a western with heart
A solid second effort from Aragorn in the director’s chair.
“I don’t think you’d call it an anti-western”: the movie Clint Eastwood called mythbreaking
Some things need to be torn down and rebuilt.
“You’d feel like an asshole sitting there”: the career period Clint Eastwood found very tough
He got to the top eventually.
Will Steven Spielberg ever realise his dream of making a western?
It’s pretty much the last item on his to-do list.
Clint Eastwood explains why people love western movies: “It’s a simpler time”
If anyone knows, it would be him.
From westerns to exploitation: Quentin Tarantino’s favourite movies of the 1960s
Some fantastic picks.
How Sam Peckinpah changed Kathryn Bigelow’s life: “Sheer genius in storytelling”
“Just extraordinary.”
How the western genre has shaped the filmography of Alexander Payne
A quintessentially American genre for a quietly patriotic filmmaker.