Year of the Month: MY DARLING CLEMENTINE
Conventional wisdom is the Western changed forever sometime in the late ‘60s, dividing the genre…
Year of the Month: ADVISE AND CONSENT
Advise and Consent is a notable example of subtext—Gay Panic—overpowering the text. Envisioned as a…
Year of the Month: FORT APACHE
It’s a Western truism that the cavalry always saves the day. But who will save…
Year of the Month: Babalugats on the Year in Nuclear Annihilation
In 1964, the steady march of technological advancement seemed to be leading us towards our…
Year of the Month: John “Son of Griff” Anderson on Once Upon a Time in the West
A great movie consists of many qualities, combining strong writing, acting, direction, and production with…
Year of the Month: The Wrong Man by John “Son of Griff” Anderson
In 1957, Henry Fonda appeared in two widely divergent depictions of the American criminal justice…
Criterion Capsule Review: My Darling Clementine
The Film: The Criterion Collection has released a restored version of American director John Ford’s Western,…
My Darling Clementine and the Myth of The American Hero
SCENE: A dusty cow-town. Our hero, an honest man despite sometimes being on the wrong…