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    A thread for all things westerns including the spaghetti westerns

    American Westerns

    Westerns were the defining genre for American Hollywood films since the early 20th century to late 1960's (when the westerns took a different turn.) and the revitalization during the 1990's and today. Westerns defined as American Film Institute put it: "genre of films set in the American West that embodies the spirit, the struggle and the demise of the new frontier. Brimming with subtext and mythology, westerns offer iconic images of a time gone by and perhaps a time that never was. A man of action with an unspoken code of honor, the western hero faces gun-toting opponents, hostile natives, lawless towns, the harsh forces of nature, and the encroachment of civilization. But the westerner keeps going, drawn to the freedom of the open plains and the promise of a new life."

    On the other hand, Revisionist Western is a term used during the late 1960's and 70's when westerns abandoned the idea of "American Exceptionalism" instead, question the ideals of classical westerns. This is also as mentioned below, used for Italian Spaghetti Westerns.

    Here are some essential American westerns:

    • Stagecoach (1939) dir. John Ford
    • The Searchers (1956) dir. John Ford
    • The Wild Bunch (1969) dir. Sam Peckinpah
    • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid dir. George Roy Hill
    • Unforgiven (1992) dir. Clint Eastwood
    • Rio Bravo (1959) dir. Howard Hawks
    • High Noon (1952) dir. Fred Zinnemann

    Spaghetti Westerns

    Spaghetti westerns were Italian westerns produced during the 60's and 70's with taking revisionist ideas by American western tropes. It's one of the big subgenre of westerns but here's the most essential ones:

    • Once Upon a Time in the West (1969) dir. Sergio Leone
    • The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (1966) dir. Sergio Leone
    • For a Few Dollars More (1965) dir. Sergio Leone
    • A Fistful of Dollars (1964) dir. Sergio Leone
    • Django (1966) dir. Sergio Corbucci
    • The Great Silence (1968) dir. Sergio Corbucci

    More Recommended Westerns

    Some of the westerns are bit under the radar in terms of popularity and credits especially the films of Anthony Mann and Budd Boetticher. Others are more recognized though.

    • The Man from Laramie (1955) dir. Anthony Mann
    • The Far Country (1954) dir. Anthony Mann
    • Bend of the River (1952) dir. Anthony Mann
    • Winchester '73 (1950) dir. Anthony Mann
    • The Naked Spur (1953) dir. Anthony Mann
    • The Tall T (1957) dir. Budd Boetticher
    • Ride Lonesome (1959) dir. Budd Boetticher
    • Decision at Sundown (1957) dir. Budd Boetticher
    • Shane (1953) dir. George Stevens
    • Gunfight at O.K. Corral (1957) dir. John Sturges
    • 3:10 to Yuma (1957) dir. Delmer Daves
    • Johnny Guitar (1954) dir. Nicholas Ray
    • My Darling Clementine (1946) dir. John Ford
    • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) dir. John Ford
    • Forty Guns (1957) dir. Samuel Fuller
    • The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) dir. William A. Wellman
    • Red River (1948) dir. Howard Hawks
    • Fistful of Dynamite aka Duck, You Sucker! (1971) dir. Sergio Leone
    • McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) dir. Robert Altman
    • Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) dir. Sam Peckinpah
    • High Plains Drifter (1973) dir. Clint Eastwood
    • The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1973) dir. John Huston
    • The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) dir. Clint Eastwood
    • The Professionals (1966) dir. Richard Brooks
    • Dead Man (1994) dir. Jim Jarmusch
    • The Magnificent Seven (1960) dir. John Sturges
    • Little Big Man (1970) dir. Arthur Penn
    • Ride the High Country (1962) dir. Sam Peckinpah
    • Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948) dir. John Huston

    Discuss any westerns and your favorites!.. And recommend dem!
    btw, OP is still under construction...

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    reserved spot for more s***

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    No Country For Old Men
    Westworld
    Holes
    Ballad of Buster Scrugs

  • Pale rider

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    My favorite genre no question. I love a Western in any form.

    Tombstone (1993)

    Once Upon A Time in the West (1968)

    Billy Jack (1971)

    Shane (1953)

    Slow West (2015)

    El Mariachi (1992)

    The Quick and the Dead (1995)

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    I need to rewatch The Proposition again soon.

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    Off top, anything Eastwood or Leone related (Dollars, Unforgiven etc etc) + The Assassination of Jesse James, No Country for Old Men & The Wild Bunch

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    Y'all pls put me on, I've seen some of the G.O.A.T.s The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, Unforgiven, Tombstone etc. but what're some of the essentials I should watch?

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    CurlyZ

    My favorite genre no question. I love a Western in any form.

    Tombstone (1993)

    Once Upon A Time in the West (1968)

    Billy Jack (1971)

    Shane (1953)

    Slow West (2015)

    El Mariachi (1992)

    The Quick and the Dead (1995)

    El Marichi is so dope

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    Ok this my fav thread I’m f***ing camping here b****

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    Does Wind River counts? or Hell Or High Water?

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    Django Unchained

    Django

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    The birth of a nation

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    Cowboys & Aliens

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    Day of Anger

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    The Hateful Eight

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    Young Guns (1988)

    Dead Man (1995)

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    CurlyZ

    My favorite genre no question. I love a Western in any form.

    Tombstone (1993)

    Once Upon A Time in the West (1968)

    Billy Jack (1971)

    Shane (1953)

    Slow West (2015)

    El Mariachi (1992)

    The Quick and the Dead (1995)

    Shane

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    Used to hate Westerns because my dad made me watch them but they grew on me as I got older.

    Unforgiven was the one that changed my mind

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    Bane

    The Hateful Eight

    Oh, damn forgot. It’s definitely up there among the best imo. Prefer it to Django

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    Wahi

    Oh, damn forgot. It’s definitely up there among the best imo. Prefer it to Django

    Theatre was cold when I watched it, felt like I was in there with them lol, then when they started eating the stew I felt warm, lmao. Top 10 theatre experience

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    Bane

    Theatre was cold when I watched it, felt like I was in there with them lol, then when they started eating the stew I felt warm, lmao. Top 10 theatre experience

    I wish I had a chance seeing it on 70mm, QT’s most visually stunning film

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    Man Who Shot Liberty, my goat James Stewart still shot ‘em b****es out well in his 50s

    The Ox Bow Incident, an underrated gem and anything Jodorowsky is worth noting, so El Topo

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    Wahi

    Man Who Shot Liberty, my goat James Stewart still shot ‘em b****es out well in his 50s

    The Ox Bow Incident, an underrated gem and anything Jodorowsky is worth noting, so El Topo

    Anthony Mann westerns

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    Wahi

    I wish I had a chance seeing it on 70mm, QT’s most visually stunning film

    FACTS! prolly best score too. Beats rarely get stuck in my head, but, that opening music... its just something else