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THE MISSING a film by RON HOWARD
For those who consider the Western as an art form there will always be debate on which films should be counted among the greatest in the genre: down to personal taste and protracted argument would be 3.10 To Yuma (1957, Van Heflin vs Glenn Ford in a story by Elmore Leonard); Posse ('75 Kirk Douglas vs Bruce Dern); The Gunfighter ('50, Gregory...
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GENERATION KILL, from the book by EVAN WRIGHT (DVD)
Anyone looking for an insight into the modern American military in combat need not go past Evan Wright's exceptional Generation Kill. Gung-ho marines raised on video games, hyped up on caffeine, pounding hip-hop and testosterone roll into Iraq in the first days of the 2003 war to clear a path, be a diversion and kill the enermy. They are there...
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THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY; THE DIRECTOR'S CUT (DVD): The horse opera of death
The reputation of the epic Western has been somewhat tarnished in recent
years, but the tradition of outsiders and the
lawless world they inhabited is an honourable one.
However, by the mid-Sixties, with
the rise of the anti-hero and a more gritty kind of cinema, it took the Italian
director Sergio Leone to re-invent the tired...
> culturalelsewhere/2687/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-the-directors-cut-dvd-the-horse-opera-of-death/
