In films like I Walked with a Zombie and Canyon Passage, Tourneur grappled in more abstract ways with race and the legacy of colonialism that continues to divide whites and people with color. My lists are not based on my own personal favorites; they are based . - Metascore: 77 Watch on. - Runtime: 83 minutes. The 3.5-hour epic stars Robert de Niro, Harvey Keitel, and Joe Pesci, all veterans of Martin Scorcese's acclaimed mob movies, as well as Al Pacino, who had not worked with Scorcese before. As if Blaine's life wasn't complicated enough, his former lover, Ilsa Lund (Bergman), shows up seeking help for her husband. - Director: John Ford The 25 greatest westerns of all time Saddle up for our guide to the most rootin', tootin' genre of them all -- the western. - Director: David Fincher Fending off one of Wess female admirers, Louise quips, Beat it, sister. To prepare for the role, Day-Lewis spent eight weeks at a cerebral palsy clinic in Dublin, where he learned how to paint and write using just his left foot. - Runtime: 68 minutes. By clicking OK, you consent to the use of all cookies. - Director: Carol Reed Orson Welles not only directs but stars as the Shakespearean character Sir John Falstaff, drawing from the plays Henry IV, Henry V, Richard II, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Robert Greene's documentary centers on a town bordering Arizona and Mexico. The Last Wagon 1956, 98 min. Likewise, the political dimension is certainly not lacking in the film, readily aligning with more radicalized Zapata westerns like Damiano Damianis A Bullet for the General and Giulio Questis outlandish in-name-only sequel Django KillIf You Live, Shoot!. The relationship between Garth and Tess Millay (Joanne Dru), whos introduced 90 minutes into the film, is given ample time to develop, and by the time of our male protagonists inevitable showdown, Tess will have become such a force that her instincts will prove key in alleviating any lingering bad blood between them. - Metascore: 75 In the early 1990s, Steven Spielberg released one of his most personal and sophisticated films to date, about German industrialist Oskar Schindler (played by Liam Neeson) who became an unlikely savior to over 1,000 Jews during the Holocaust. - Metascore: 76 (As the Stranger ultimately says to Billy Curtiss dwarf Mayor, theres nothing to do but live with it.) The Eastwood persona may have been molded by other filmmakers, but High Plains Drifter shows the star-auteur as his own most perceptive critic. Set in Oregon during the Gold Rush, a pair of assassins known as the Sisters brothers chase down a man who claims to have developed a formula for finding gold. 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Kevin Costner starred in and directed this film, which went on to win the Academy Award for best picture. - Metascore: 96 Along with castigating Henry Fondas Colonel Thursday for the complete disregard he shows for Native American rights and his bull-headed, mindless following of U.S. government codes and laws, Ford also shines a harsh light on the frontier tradesmen who illegally sell weapons and near-poisonous whiskey to the Native Americans. - Director: Jameson Brooks - Metascore: 80 Director John Huston won the Academy Award for best director, and his father Walter Huston, who played Howard, won the Academy Award for best supporting actor. - Metascore: 96 Terrence Malicks first feature film, written after a brief career in academia and a stint at the American Film Institute, is frequently touted as part and parcel of the 1970s New American Cinema (on the surface, it contains the post-western mythos of road movies and on-the-run-romance flicks like Easy Rider and Bonnie and Clyde), but its also distinct from those films insofar as it presents a new form of storytelling thats more interesting than its subjects. - Metascore: 96 Hoppers double vision isnt hypocritical but honest: Cinematic violence, a macho version of dance, is ecstatically stimulating when executed by an artist or even a competent journeyperson. Clashes of religion and business, sanity and lunacy are nothing short of explosive, with Andersons formal dexterity and Jonny Greenwoods otherworldly score lending malevolent majesty to this slow-burn portrait of individualisms simultaneously creative and destructive power. tells the story of a United Nations translator whose family seeks refuge when the Serbian army takes over their town of Srebrenica and commits mass slaughter. Peckinpah made more explosive filmsthe spurts of violence here register like faint, halting echoes of The Wild Bunchs grisly set piecesbut few that were this achingly sad and funereal, with Kristofferson and Coburn conveying deep reservoirs of pain and regret in their silences and eliciting nothing so much as pity in their poses of machismo. It's no wonder that famous critic Pauline Kael described it as coming "out of a merger of commerce and art." The fraternal bond that builds between Watie and Wales is handled with expert subtlety, devoid of easy politics or rhetoric, but even more impressive is how the script by Sonia Chernus and Philip Kaufman develops this communal aspect of the story and express almost all capitalistic endeavors as wrong-headed, greedy, and ostensibly heartless. Jones also co-wrote the screenplay and directed the film. Every aspect of Duel in the Sun, from its scorched Technicolor cinematography to its protracted running time, is resolutely overheated and oversized. However, before Ofelia can fulfill her destiny, she must complete three gruesome tasks. Best Western Movies of All Time, Ranked - MovieWeb Aug 7, 2022 Best Western Movies of All Time, Ranked ; 15 The Magnificent Seven (1960) ; 14 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007). - Director: Paul Greengrass The sequel to the 1931 film, Frankenstein, features Elsa Lanchester as Mary Shelley and as the iconic Bride with stitches on her face and silver streaks in her towering shock of hair, and Boris Karloff as the Monster. Quentin Tarantino Starring: Jamie Foxx , Christoph Waltz , Leonardo DiCaprio. Dillard, Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas bring their considerable star wattageand physical prowessto John Sturgess first take on the oft-filmed events leading up to the legendary gunfight at the O.K. Bowen, Andr De Toths Day of the Outlaw is the rare western to take place across a landscape blanketed in snow, whose temperatures are as biting as the long-gestating feud between the homesteaders of the bleak town of Bitters, Wyoming and a local rustler, Blaise Starrett (Robert Ryan). Christley, Across a simultaneously beautiful and dangerous Mexican frontier gripped by political turmoil, Robert Aldrich found the ideal setting in which to place disillusioned outcasts. Has rust in spots for sure, but still if structurally strong. - Director: Sergio Leone - Runtime: 137 minutes. Fuller includes a line of dialogue that complicates the uplift, but even if he hadnt, Forty Gunss damning treatise on gun infatuation and the incapacity to transcend ones nature had already landed its heaviest blows, leaving a bitter aftertaste that no smearing of schmaltz could quite undo. Abhimanyu Das, An in-name-only sequel to Sergio Corbuccis Django, the saga of a coffin-dragging hombre bent on revenge, Giulio Questis Django KillIf You Live, Shoot! Growing up in a broken home, Chiron falls under the wing of a local drug dealer (Mahershala Ali). When making his iconic Vietnam War movie, 1979's Apocalypse Now, director Francis Ford Coppola endured many psychological and physical setbacks. Frank and company are violent cowboys, but within the flat Olancha Dune landscape they are, at the very least, recognizably human. It stars Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich, and Welles himself. Questi and co-writer/editor Franco Arcalli turn audience expectations topsy turvy, orchestrating a demolition derby of generic types, and interlarding the script with mash-ups of archetypal biblical and literary texts: Take a Christ-in-reverse narrative where the protagonist, known only as the Stranger (subgenre fixture Tomas Milian), resurrects from the dead early on and only later undergoes crucifixion, add a dash of Jane Eyres madwoman in the attic, and fold in a liberal portion of Lady Macbeth. This primal moment of early European-American history was turned into mythical storytelling, first through novels, and then through cinema. The Big Country is stunning for how it meshes the intimate strife of a particularly white American stripe of self-resentment with the epic vista of Technirama Technicolor. - Metascore: 74 Chuck Norris stars in the film, which served as the basis for his later television series titled Walker, Texas Ranger. As Scarlett deals with a range of personal tragedies, she and Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) engage in an ill-fated romance. Budd Boettichers low-budget westerns, often shot in just a couple of weeks, accentuate feelings of loss with remarkable quietude. Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable star in the story of a divorced woman and an aging cowboy. The town's oddball cast of characters then must defend themselves against corrupt and greedy politicians and businesses. - Runtime: 111 minutes. But its also leagues ahead of Los Muertos, Alonsos 2004 feature about a mans unclassifiable journey through an Argentinian jungle. The role of the judge was offered to Burl Ives and Spencer Tracy but in the end was played by Joseph N. Welch, a real-life lawyer who represented the U.S. Army in the 1954 anti-Communist Army-McCarthy hearings. - Runtime: 134 minutes. - Runtime: 157 minutes. Wilkins, Despite its preoccupation with retribution, True Grit retains a barbed wit throughout. Many of the greatest westerns focus on the pioneering spirit that drives people to start new lives away from their homeland as well as the challenges of actually doing so, but few films convey what a massive and exhaustive undertaking it is with such exhaustive specificity as The New Land. This period Australian western isnt just a tale of revenge, but also a study of the intersecting lines of conflict of gender, race, and colonialism. This diminished form of Plainview is vile and pitiful in equal quantities. - Metascore: 94 The film won a number of awards, including an Academy Award for its soundtrack. - Director: Orson Welles - Metascore: 95 Set in the isolated desert landscapes of Nevada, the film speaks to a quiet and distinctly American despair, a fear of failure and progress that seems incredibly apt considering the stress that Peckinpah faced following up The Wild Bunch. - Runtime: 80 minutes. It all leads to a climactic showdown of remarkable savagery that seems to confirm an irrepressible violence within the hearts of even the most upstanding among usthough its followed then by a studio-mandated corrective to it, a scene that partially aims to clear the dust churned up by such a bleak capper. - Runtime: 75 minutes. - Metascore: 68 Though the war is over, a group of Christian guerrillas are not done fighting for religious freedom. Additionally, we picked only classical period films, so you get outta here with that Best Picture-winning neo-Western nonsense! Starring as Rosemary is actress Mia Farrow, who brings the ideal amount of innocence and fear to the role. Writer Reginald Rose adapted his own award-winning teleplay when he penned the script for this taut drama about 12 jurors who argue over the fate of a suspected murderer. Jeffrey Hill, So many late silent films are infused with a delirious energy, a sheer delight in the transportive powers of the cinema, and Swedens original film genius, Victor Sjstrm, was renowned as a master of subjective, otherworldly moving images. Those who know Brando less by his acting than by his tabloid reputation as a prodigious indulger, a man given to bountiful food and women, who was prone to endless re-takes on sets, might be astonished by the sense of authorial control that he exhibits here, both as filmmaker and star. Released at the end of a year of global unrest, of popular rebellions against political, military, and bureaucratic shackles, Sergio Corbuccis film epitomizes a pervasive liberal dejection over the Vietnam War and conservative rule, a sense of bewilderment and confusion about morality no longer feeling relevant. - Runtime: 107 minutes In this action Western, a Texas Ranger seeks revenge on the man who hijacked a U.S. Army convoy, injuring his daughter and killing her boyfriend. - Runtime: 108 minutes. Bills overwhelmingly obsessive quest for revenge takes on an extra layer of perverseness once hes paired up with the mysterious Ryan (Lee Van Cleef), an older man who playfully competes with Bill to hunt down and kill these same men first. Lund, Monte Hellman is known to have initially garnered producers attention with a western take on Waiting for Godot, and that experience explicitly colors The Shooting, a quest narrative that elides any context of the quest until a startling conclusion that shows a man looking into a metaphorical mirror to glimpse his own soul. John Bernard Books led a long life as a talented shootist, but now is suffering from cancer and searching for the best way to die. - Director: Andrew Stanton That said, it was still widely praised and financially successfuljust like most of the studio's output. Disney was in the midst of a substantial comeback when it released this animated smash hit in 1991, about a cursed prince who's doomed to exist as a beast, lest he finds true love and breaks the spell. - Director: John Ford However, as Juror 8 breaks down the evidence, he slowly steers the verdict toward innocence. - Runtime: 181 minutes. Lund, Shot in early-50s Technicolor, George Stevenss legendary western has a dreamlike quality, opening with a too-perfect tableau of an innocent deer drinking in a mountain valley. The western has proved itself a durable and influential way of talking about the human condition. - Runtime: 126 minutes. There's this strange and perplexing tendency among people under 30 to have a hate boner for Tombstone. - Runtime: 104 minutes. You may also like: 15 Controversial Oscar Winsand How They've Aged, - Director: Francis Ford Coppola The movie was the basis for the 1998 film You've Got Mail, in which the bookstore owned by Meg Ryan's character is called The Shop Around The Corner. Eventually he must resign himself to his fate and, as his famous namesake put it in The Book of Thel, he will gentle sleep the sleep of death. More than simply being critical of a West that great artists have already attacked for decades, Jarmusch is interested in suggesting something distinctive and otherworldly, where Blakes visionary poetry and New York hipsterism might commingle in a setting alien to them both. A third of all cowboys herding cattle on the Great Plains were blacka fact thats only surprising until you consider which groups were most in need of self-reliant vocation and freedom from the long arm of the law in the wake of the Civil War. This plot, a mixture of romantic melodrama and suspenseful action, is a far cry from the supernatural horror and existential noir on which Tourneurs reputation stands, and the naturalistic hues of the Technicolor cinematography lack the almost avant-garde textural contrasts of his monochrome films. - Director: Henry King Set in the distant (or not-so-distant) futurewhere Earth has become uninhabitablethis 2008 Pixar feature follows the adventures of a lovable, trash-collecting robot. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Hugh Glass, a hunter who is attacked by a bear and left to find his own way to safety through the frozen wilderness. - Director: Ernst Lubitsch - Metascore: 94 Screenwriter Luciano Vincenzoni claims to have written the screenplay in nine days. Primarily shot by writer/director Charles Burnett in 1972 and 1973, this compelling drama wasn't released to the public until 2007, since that was how long it took to clear all the music rights. John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix star as the infamous brothers. - Runtime: 138 minutes. - Metascore: 78 1969. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here. The Western was a constant presence in cinemas throughout the first half of the 20th century, peaking in the 1950s when Westerns outnumbered every other genre combined. - Runtime: 104 minutes. Clint Eastwoods aim, though, isnt to pay homage to the genre but to usher in its apocalypse. The group is led by Jack Bruhn (Burl Ives), an AWOL Army captain who fancies himself a noble criminal. After notorious gunslinger Jimmy Ringo (Gregory Peck) moseys his way into the town of Cayenne, where his wife (Helen Westcott) and the son hes never met live, the film becomes a full-blown scrutiny on the nature of reputation in the Wild West. Stacker compiled the 100 best Western films of all time using data from Metacritic, a site that collects reviews from respected critics and uses them to determine the average rating. Action Adventure Adventure Drama. Spectacular dusk lighting and an earthy sensuality have earned the film comparisons to those of Terence Malick, while its naturalism and attention to detail tease out social concerns without obscuring the human drama, as in Kelly Reichardts best work. Frontier man Gil (Henry Fonda) and his new wife, Lana Martin (Claudette Colbert), are without a home of their own for most of the film, their first cabin being burned to the ground during an attack, and when Gil and the troops return from the bloody Battle of Oriskany, the director details their immense casualties and injuries with unsparing detail. The two travel hundreds of miles of dangerous frontier. Humanick, The Naked Spur is the third of five westerns on which director Anthony Mann and star James Stewart collaborated, a loosely linked series of incisively psychological films that allowed Stewart to explore a harsher, darker edge to the affably loose-limbed screen persona he had hitherto established. It's time to put another genre on the ranking block. The mystery deepens as others on board claim not to have seen her. To stay hidden, the musicians disguise themselves as women and join an all-female band. - Runtime: 133 minutes. - Director: Clint Eastwood Using an unfinished novel by writer and social critic James Baldwin as its foundation, this award-winning documentary explores the history of race in America. Chaplin pursues deliverance not in the miracle of hitting pay dirt, but in the promise of a woman, and its this promise that Chaplin would keep after, well into his sync-sound period. A domestic box office disappointment upon its initial release, Touch of Evil now ranks among the greatest films ever made. - Director: Tommy Lee Jones - Metascore: 66 - Runtime: 131 minutes. was to have been called just If You Live, Shoot! 1.Once Upon a Time in the West 2.The Searchers 3.Red River Im just a dying man afraid of the dark, he blurts out in frustration to his sharp-tongued landlady (a radiant Lauren Bacall), averting his tired, red-lined baby blues. Yet Corbucci sets Django on its feet by moving away from the epic sprawl that started creeping into Sergio Leones work with Fistful of Dollars, the very title of which suggests his more is more approach, into the sort of rough-hewn storytelling and rough-and-tumble pessimism that characterize subsequent Corbucci films like The Great Silence. But this wildly entertaining concoction is consistently shot through with a bleak pessimism. Jordan Cronk, Generational clashes. Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, and Randy Quaid head up the cast of The Missouri Breaks, a film about a horse thief, a rancher, and an avenger. Mel Brooks directed and co-wrote this raunchy Western, which made American Film Institute's list of America's 100 Funniest Movies, coming in at No. - Runtime: 170 minutes. Fittingly, the land itself provides the conflict here, with Fords Union veteran-cum-landowner trotting out his old fighting spirit when the vicious owners of a neighboring estateBarbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson in wonderfully belligerent performancestry to exploit his ranch for pennies. In contemporary films like Ang Lees Brokeback Mountain and Chlo Zhaos The Riderand looking back to ones like Victor Sjstrms The Wind and John Hustons The Misfitswe can recognize something like a western mode, a broader and more expansive cinematic language that has been suffused by the symbols of the American West. - Director: Steven Spielberg Here, any honorable qualities Vern or anyone else may possess is ultimately beside the point, because in Langs view, by simply existing in a lawless, violent world, violent behavior is an inevitability. 29. Set in the Australian outback, Sweet Country explores what happens when an Aboriginal farmer kills a white man in self-defense, and is forced to flee for his life. Rod Steiger portrays a Mexican outlaw in this film, and together with James Coburn, who plays an Irish explosives expert, they find themselves in the middle of the Mexican Civil War. The first comes not long after the ambush on Waless Confederate brothers-in-arms, as Wales sneaks up on a disgraced elderly Cherokee warrior named Lone Watie (a very good Chief Dan George). Cleavon Little stars as Bart, the newly appointed sheriff, while Gene Wilder plays Jim, an alcoholic who quickly becomes his friend. Featured in the film is an iconic song-and-dance number, during which Gene Kelly literally sings in the rain. It's been assembled, however, working from a. Flanagan, The drink had taken Sam Peckinpah fully by 1970 and theres more than enough evidence that the demon had always been there, but hed been able to hold it down until the catastrophic production of The Ballad of Cable Hogue, which ended 19 days over schedule and three-million dollars over budget. Made with subtitles, it was the first non-English language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. As such, Hud is simultaneously a mournful lamentation of the passing of a way of life and a meditation on the possible ways forward. Between that and the engaging narrative, the movie earned heaping amounts of critical acclaim and over $700 million at the box office. Bowen, In Red River, an intimate moral study forged from the extreme impositions fostered by such an unforgiving environment as the Old West, the psychology behind the rebellion between hard-nosed cattle rancher Thomas Dunson (John Wayne) and his would-be son turned adversary, Matthew Garth (Montgomery Clift), is expertly built and realized by Howard Hawks. Director Michael Barnett showcases the individuals participating in the acting camp run by Zeno Mountain Farm, a nonprofit that organizes recreational programs. - Runtime: 165 minutes. - Runtime: 99 minutes. - Metascore: 77 The film is a classic example of director Preston Sturges' use of quick, comical dialogue, a lively supporting cast, and bustling, energetic scenes. By any name, though, it would look as strange. - Director: Sergio Corbucci In addition to its critique of knee-jerk McCarthyite persecution, the film also abounds in such fascinating items as the sisterly yin-yang of Dan Ballards (John Payne) respectable bride (Lisabeth Scott) and his brazen ex-mistress (Dolores Moran), cinematographer John Altons masterly lighting and extended tracking shots, and the spiritual exhaustion of a showdown in a churchs bell tower. Eastwood and Peoples often juxtapose legendary killers, the protagonists and primary antagonists of the film, with outsiders, supporting characters such as the Schofield Kid and the writer W.W. Beauchamp (Saul Rubinek), who blithely echo our own distanced and worshipful embrace of violence in pop art, as a transmitted energy thats divorced of the ramifications of the destruction it simulates. In addition, adults whose annual household income is less than $30,000 are more likely than those living in households earning $75,000 or more a year to be non-book readers (31% vs. 15%). Some journalists criticized the film for its supposed inaccuracies, but critics and audiences definitely didn't mind. Specifically, the movie centers on a pair of retired school teachers, whose loving marriage is manifested by a series of daily rituals. - Runtime: 109 minutes. - Runtime: 112 minutes. When Ulzana is eventually killed, tellingly by Ke-Ni-Tay (Jorge Luke), DeBuin insists on a Christian burial. Jayne Mansfield turned down Remick's part, and Gregory Peck was considered for the lead. Director Christopher Nolan's gripping World War II drama recounts the Battle of Dunkirk when hundreds of thousands of Allied troops were forced to evacuate a French coastal town as the German enemy closed in. - Director: Greta Gerwig Made on a shoestring budget of just $500,000 (half of which reportedly went toward the soundtrack), Mean Streets follows a small-time criminal named Charlie (Harvey Keitel) who struggles to reconcile his moral inclinations with his dangerous lifestyle.
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