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Michael Gordon’s The Secret of Convict Lake cannot live up to its title, which sounds…
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On the last day of 1986, Variety reviewed the second feature film by Kathryn Bigelow,…
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Buster Keaton loves an underdog. Most of his protagonists are down on their luck, or…
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Looking back at John Ford’s 3 Bad Men today, it would be easy to call…
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I’m on the record as not liking Westerns, and yet I keep writing about them.…
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Conventional wisdom is the Western changed forever sometime in the late ‘60s, dividing the genre…
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I would hazard a guess that contemporary cultural politics hasn’t been kind to Sergeant Rutledge,…
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