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This page is a Daily Archive of entries for Friday, October 10, 2008 listed from newest to oldest.
Whether you’ve seen none or a hundred westerns, chances are the conventions of the genre are rattling around somewhere in your consciousness. Images of dusty cow-towns, duels at high noon on Main Street and marauding, savage injuns’ (the genre’s term, not mine) are part and parcel of films of this kind and they are ingrained in our national consciousness like the pledge of allegiance and grandma’s apple pie. It’s obvious from his latest directorial effort, Appaloosa, that Ed Harris knows these tropes like the back of his hand, as those mentioned above and many more pop up, all rendered with a loving sense of nostalgia for bygone days. His has a romantic vision of the West and while there are those that may object to the film’s simplicity, there are enough variations on these themes to make it worthwhile.
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