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One thought I had while watching The Gunfighter is that more time had passed since the movie came out (1950 to 2023) than had passed since the time it was depicting (1880s-1950). I know people who remember 1950 very well. Might the filmmakers have known people who knew the 1880s? It’s truly a...

That’s a hard one. I think the Eastwood/Leone films ushered in a new type of western, and films like The Wild Bunch and Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid (both 1969) definitely feel like modern westerns, with more in common with Eastwood’s 70s and 80s output than earlier films. So, maybe 1970 is...

Revisiting this awesome thread, as I want to amend my "favorite westerns" list to include Stagecoach and The Gunfighter, both of which I recently added to my collection with the Criterion blu-rays. The writing was so sharp in films like those; that's really something we're lacking today. Also...

My very observant and intelligent wife got me a copy of Silverado on Blu-ray for Valentine’s Day, replacing my old DVD (the one with the playing cards). (The last of my western collection not on Blu-ray.) Watched it today with the kids, one of whom had been asking to see a real western. I...

I watched Cimarron (1960) last night. I thought it was great, a true epic. (And the HD transfer looked stunning.) This might be my favorite thing I've seen Glenn Ford in. It's certainly a different kind of movie-making than we're used to these days. I was sorry to see that the Warner Archive...

Jeremiah Johnson is an all-time favorite of mine.

Was The Gunfighter the Criterion edition? That's on my list for their next sale!

I watched the Criterion of 3:10 To Yuma last night. It’s a great presentation of a great film. The photography is spectacular, some of the best I’ve seen in any western, whether color or black and white. I have a particular affinity for Glenn Ford, who bore an uncanny resemblance to my father...

I just got Cimmaron from the last Warner Archive sale, and it's going to be the next western I watch. Believe it or not, it was actually my wife who requested we get that one.

I watched The Treasure of the Sierra Madre last night, on blu-ray. I had not seen it in decades and had forgotten a great deal about it. It's terrific (and looks terrific too). And despite being set in the 1920s, I would certainly say it is a western. Greatest western of all time? No. It just...

I never saw the 1920 Mohicans, but out of the adaptations I saw (and there have been a few), the 1992 movie really stands out. I think it's one of the best films of the 90s and of Michael Mann's impressive career.

I realized that most of the films on my list are from the 60s/70s/80s, which is when I grew up. During that time, there was a lot of western content on television, which may have made people less inclined to see those films in the theater. No doubt there were fewer westerns in that period that...

My favorites, in no particular order. The Searchers A Fistful of Dollars/For A Few Dollars More/The Good The Bad and the Ugly Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid The Wild Bunch Silverado Blazing Saddles Unforgiven Jeremiah Johnson Django Unchained The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada The...

When you guys mention Last of the Mohicans, are you talking about the 1992 version by Michael Mann or the 1936 version starring Randolph Scott? Or another version (there are many)? I guess it fits the time period, but since it takes place in New York State, I never thought of it as a western. I...

I would also love to read everyone's lists of the top 10 or 20 westerns. I'd offer my own, but I am afraid it would seem like amateur hour.

Unforgiven will be 29 this year. For comparison, that’s how old From Russia With Love, Hud, Charade, The Pink Panther, The Great Escape and The Birds were when Unforgiven was released. A Fistful of Dollars was only 28.

This popped up in my feed today. Lots of good choices here. https://www.vulture.com/article/50-best-western-movies-ever.html

I watched the new Kino blu-ray of High Plains Drifter last night, and wow, what a transfer it is. The colors are very vibrant. I enjoyed it, even if it doesn't rise to the level of my favorite films of the genre. The introduction of Eastwood's character is a head scratcher. One of the very...

Oh, a lot. I'm a novice when it comes to westerns. My favorite is The Searchers, which I am sure is the favorite of a lot of people. My father was a big western fan, so I saw man of those films through him. I like reading this thread for suggestions of all the films I should see. It really is...

The Gunfighter is the subject of Brownsville Girl, a song Bob Dylan co-wrote with Sam Shepard, off Dylan's 1986 album Knocked Out Loaded. The album may not be among Dylan's best, but the song is. It's easily one of the best things he's done since his celebrated work in the 60s and 70s. The song...

Recently, I bought a Blu-ray set that contains Butch & Sundance: The Early Days (a film I always liked, even if it’s nowhere near as good as the original, and, hey, Richard Lester!), and the set also contains three films I don’t know much about, so I’ll ask here: Has anyone heard of or seen Rio...

In the wake of The Mandalorian, I have a burning need to watch the Man With No Name films again, not to mention High Plains Drifter, which I just got on blu-ray from Kino. I'll always hold a special place for Silverado, which (except for Unforgiven) seems like the last great western.