1/2 star = Irredeemable
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2 star = bad
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3 star = pretty good
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Bandidos 1967
Directed by (and according to Howard Hughes in his booklet for Arrows Vengeance Trails boxset shot by) Massimo Dallamano who worked as cinematographer on Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars & For a Few Dollars More, Bandidos is a film that you watch for the visuals. Throughout Dallamano provides the film with such a rich and engaging visual style and one scene towards the end has some of the most beautiful day for night I’ve ever seen.
Story and character are what you’d expect from a spaghetti western, but the craft on display more than makes up for any literary shortcomings.
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Every Day Is Like Sunday 2011
I feel like this story should be talked about a lot more. Like taught in schools here in Britain.
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Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 2024
The western is as tied to cinema as a form more than maybe any other genre. From Edwin S Porter, to John Ford, to Clint Eastwood, and the spaghetti westerns that changed the genre, the western has been a constant.
Kevin Costner’s planned four film series Horizon: An American Saga is filmmaking at its most epic. In his review of the film, Mark Kermode complained that the films 1.85:1 aspect ratio and the nature of the storytelling made the film more suited…
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Open Range 2003
Duvall and Costner play off each other really well and the film wouldn’t work without them selling it.
And also the final shootout is one of the best I’ve ever seen.
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