Tag: western
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An Inside Look: ‘Cowboys & Aliens’
VIDEO: Paramount has kindly sent over a behind the scenes video from the forthcoming Cowboys & Aliens. The featurette has interviews with producers Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard, writers/producers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman and of course, director John Favreau.
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New International ‘Cowboys and Aliens’ Posters and TV Spot
In anticipated of the release of Cowboys and Aliens, Paramount has sent over a clip from the recent Spike Awards, where it was named the ‘Most Manticipated’ film of the year, along with two brand-new international posters for the film.
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Trailer: ‘Cowboys and Aliens’
Cowboys and Aliens could be a theme for the last couple of years, with a revival of the western and alien encounters alike.
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Rango
Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski turns his eye to animation with this novel take on the western. Featuring the voice talents of Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin and Bill Nighy to name but a few, it may be the most original animated film to come out this year.
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The evolution of the western: Part 3 – The Last Man Standing
In the final entry in our three-part series on the western, we look take a look at the last twenty years of gunslingers in the US and abroad. From Kevin Costner to Takashi Miike, the western has been elevated to epic proportions – even when it isn’t being a western at all.
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True Grit
Following the murder and robbery of her father at the hands of ranch-hand, practical and precocious 14-year-old Mattie Ross (newcomer Hailee Steinfeld) vows that she will avenge his death. The local sheriff turns a blind eye to the dealing, and the murderer Tom Cheney (Josh Brolin, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps) is on the run…
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The evolution of the western: Part 2 – The Man with No Name
In The Evolution of the Western – Part 1: The Last Gunslingers, we discussed the changing nature of the cowboy over the first half of the 20th century. From the earliest days of cinema through to John Ford’s The Searchers (1954), the gunslinger turned from hero of legend to “a figure of pathos, not tragedy”…
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The evolution of the western: Part 1 – the last gunslingers
With the release of the Coen Brothers’ True Grit, a remake of Henry Hathaway’s 1969 John Wayne late-vehicle, the American western has been brought back into focus. Set to become the second highest grossing western of all time, behind Kevin Costner’s revisionist western Dances with Wolves, True Grit may be just the blockbuster the genre…
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