The exceptionally insightful critic Stuart Byron once famously asserted that “in a broad sense it can be said that all recent American cinema derives from John Ford’s The Searchers” – and it just so happens that this was amongst the first pieces of film criticism I read as an adolescent. It is something that has…
Tag: western
Frontier Gambler (1956)
Few genres have changed more frequently than the western genre, which consists of clear delineations between periods, with very little overlap unless a film is constructed as an intentional throwback. Another genre in which this has taken place is the film noir, which also reached its peak at some point in the middle of the…
Slow West (2015)
One of the most bizarre but understandable quirks of the popularity of the Western genre is the fact that so many works glamourized the Old West and presented it as some wildly entertaining, colourful period in the past where life was simpler and people were more eccentric. Naturally, this is all a product of Hollywood’s…
The Postmodern Pelican 