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11. Winchester ’73
By Stephen Mullen Winchester 73 was the first collaboration between James Stewart and Anthony Mann, the beginning of an extremely successful partnership. The film itself is very innovative – it...
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10. McCabe and Mrs. Miller
by James Clark McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) is so unmistakably about dimming lights that we have to take special care not to miss its profoundly difficult discoveries and associated cinematic...
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8. Stagecoach (1939)
by Brandie Ashe In 1939, John Ford made what was arguably the most important film of his career: Stagecoach. Now, that is not to say that Stagecoach is necessarily his “best” film; that, of course, is...
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7. The Wild Bunch (1969)
By Dean Treadway For years, I had not seen Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch in full. I had caught bits of it on TV, or maybe at the drive-in, where my mom and dad had carried me along to check it out....
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5. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)
by Dean Treadway Lynn and Buddy, my parents, somehow always knew I was going to be a movie nut. That’s the only explanation I have for them taking me to see so many kid-unfriendly movies at the...
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4. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
by Shubhajit Lahiri John Ford reveled in the making of Westerns, for what is The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence if not an expression of his love affair with the genre? With its overarching themes of...
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3. Once Upon A Time in the West
by Sam Juliano The following is the full content of a term paper handed in to a Professor Renaldo Ovest Spaghetti for a graduate course in Italian Cinema offered during the fall semester of 2007 at...
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2. Rio Bravo
by Anubhav Bist The little moments. If you were to ask me what makes Howard Hawk’s 1959 western so special, thats what I would say. The little moments. For me, this could be something as quick as...
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1. The Searchers
By Peter Lenihan Of all the very recognizable titles (think Rules of the Game, Tokyo Story, Seven Samurai, Vertigo, Citizen Kane) that appear on S&S lists decade in and decade out, Ford’s film is...
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12. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
By Dean Treadway The passage of time, and of eras, overwhelms the first frames as cinematographer Roger Deakins aims his camera into the ether, catching time-lapsed storm clouds speeding through the...
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