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Smith Westerns: Chicago's Best Band
2011-02-25 04:36:00 I did a quick Google search on Smith Westerns and within seconds saw them described as both 'glam rock' and 'dream pop.'I would have used different words. Namely, "the best band in Chicago."For whatever reason, Chicago hasn't had much of a music scene in recent years. There really hasn't been a sort of defining Chicago sound since the blues heyday. I can't even think of who the last great Chicago band was. Wilco maybe? Yeah, it's been a while.And I'm pretty sure no one would expect the Next Big Thing to sound like this.Listening to Smith Westerns in a miserable and snowy Chicago winter, it's almost hard to believe they're really from Chicago. Their latest, "Dye It Blonde" is a mash-up...
Review: Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2006) R 121min
2008-08-27 09:38:00 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2006) This award-winning picture was directed by Tommy Lee Jones, his first work as director, and based on the book by Guillermo Arriaga, an Oscar-nominated author and play-writer. Arriaga also wrote script for Universal/Focus feature film Amores Perros (2000) starring Benicio Del Torro, Naomi Watts and Sean Penn, 21 Grams (2004) and finally ...
Dead Man (1995) R 2h
2008-07-09 07:33:00 Review: Dead Man (1995) This dramatic western starring Johnny Depp was written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. The plot: After death of his parents, William Blake, an accountant from Cleveland, takes a job offer and moves to the Town of Machine at the end of the train line. However he arrived about two months late. Penniless, he’s picked ...
3:10 to Yuma: Westerns are Back!
2008-05-07 00:00:00 Vedavyasa Bhat reviews James Mangold's 2007 Russell Crowe and Christian Bale starer 3:10 to Yuma Westerns are back! Absolutely thrilled to have watched this one. Who doesn't love a lovely western... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Brokeback Mountain (Widescreen Edition) (2005)
2008-01-27 07:17:00 A sad, melancholy ache pervades Brokeback Mountain, Ang Lee's haunting, moving film that, like his other movies, explores societal constraints and the passions that lurk underneath. This time, however, instead of taking on ancient China, 19th-century England, or '70s suburbia, Lee uses the tableau of the American West in the early '60s to show how two lovers are bound by their expected roles, how they rebel against them, and the repercussions for each of doing so--but the romance here is between two men. Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) are two itinerant ranchers looking for work in Wyoming when they meet and embark on a summer sheepherding job in the shadow of titular Brokeback Mountain. The taciturn Ennis, uncommunicative in the extreme, finds himself opening up around the gregarious Jack, and the two form a bond that surprisingly catches fire one cold night out in the wilderness. Separating at the end of the summer, each goes on to marry and have c...
The Great American Westerns Still Blazing Trails In Americas Heart
2008-01-10 00:00:00 The ever popular cowboy and indian show or the gunfight cowboy still captures the dreams and tv sets of Americans on a daily basis
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The Great American Westerns Still Blazing Trails In Americas Heart
2008-01-10 00:00:00 From the very beginnings of movie making and television broadcasting one of the most popular kinds of shows were western themed. Early stars like Tom Mix, Gene Autry, and Roy Rogers, among others were big drawing cards at the box office. People loved to watch them and the action packed scenes. Some of those early ...
3:10 to Yuma (Widescreen Edition) (2007)
2008-01-09 11:35:00 Here's hoping James Mangold's big, raucous, and ultrabloody remake of 3:10 to Yuma leads some moviegoers to check out Delmer Daves's beautifully lean, half-century-old original. That classic Western spun a tale of captured outlaw Ben Wade (Glenn Ford)--deadly but disarmingly affable--and the small-time rancher and family man, Dan Evans (Van Heflin), desperate enough to accept the job of helping escort the badman to Yuma prison. Wade, knowing that his gang will be along at any moment to spring him, works at persuading the ultimately lone deputy to accept a bribe, turn his back on "duty," and go home safe and rich to his family. That the outlaw has come to admire his captor intriguingly complicates the suspense. All of the above applies in the new 3:10, but it takes a lot more huffing and puffing to get Wade (Russell Crowe this time) and Evans (Christian Bale) into position for the showdown. Mostly, more is less. To Mangold's credit, his movie doesn't traffic in facile irony or p...
10 Unconventional Westerns
2007-10-02 00:00:00 TriggerStreet.com | Trigger Digest I?m not proclaiming these to be the ?Top Ten? or ?Ten Best? unconventional westerns. I haven?t seen Brando?s ONE-EYED JACKS, which I?m told would be on my list and I haven?t seen Fonda?s HIRED HAND which I really believe would make the list too. No, this is a list of ten great ...
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3:10 to Yuma (2007)
2007-09-10 19:59:00 It’s nice to see the revival, or a come back, of the Western genre. I have seen the 1957 version, and not 50 years later this remake brought Elmore Leonard’s short story back to the screen. Watch the trailer. The plot: one-legged civil war veteran Dan Evans (Christian Bale) is in dire straits as powerful landlord ...
Saree vs Westerns with Perizaad
2007-08-20 15:17:00 Here is a nice comparison of the two dresses and which would look cute with a very cute actress, Preizaad Zorabian(See Here for more of her). First of all Perizaad in westerns. And in Saree in an awesome pose.. Wow she has superb feet. I just think the Saree pose wins hands down. And that is a great wallpaper so here we go... Some more photos of Perizaad:
Mis westerns favoritos
2007-06-21 22:58:00 Oriol, que ha decidido rellenar algunas lagunas de su acervo cultural cinematográfico, me ha pedido que le pase la lista de las películas que considero imprescindibles. Es un encargo trabajoso, pero también placentero de cumplir. Como yo a mi vez no carezco de mis propias lagunas no pretenderé hacer una lista canónica de imprescindibles, pero sí de las que más me gustan, o dicho de otra forma, de "mis" imprescindibles. El baremo puramento subjetivo queda, pues, anunciado. Será además un listado incompleto, porque no voy a recordarlas todas. Y como el listado puede ser muy largo, iré por partes. Así pues, comenzaré por el western, ese género tan intrínsecamente cinematográfico. No voy a ceñirme a los patrones más puros del género: es posible que alguna de las películas citadas no sea exactamente un western. Pero en estos momentos no es un tema que me peocupe. Si no han visto alguna de las que citaré, acudan inmediatamente a un videoclub (y si el western no se haya entre sus géneros m...
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Depressions and Westerns
2007-06-13 16:15:00 Within the last week, two members of our community are trying to stave off a depression and another returned from three weeks in hibernation. There may be others; these are just the ones I know about. As I thought about them, I have felt great empathy and compassion. I remember so many times when I could feel a depression coming on and wondered what I could do to stop it before it took hold.I always tried my usual fare: playing music, spending time outdoors, forcing myself to walk--if only for a few blocks, racking my mind to determine the trigger, trying to talk it away, trying to write it away, gardening, doing physical labor, praying, trying my own form of meditation, trying to ignore it, going to films, watching funny videos, spending time with people who love me and whom I love, seeking out friends who make me laugh, and the list goes on.Sometimes it worked; other times it didn't. I wish I could figure out why.Coming back from a depression isn't easy either. For me it se...
The Great American Westerns Still Blazing Trails In Americas Heart
0000-00-00 00:00:00 From the very beginnings of movie making and television broadcasting one of the most popular kinds of shows were western themed. Early stars like Tom Mix, Gene Autry, and Roy Rogers, among others were big drawing cards at the box office. People loved to watch them and the action packed scenes. Some of those early ...
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