Winter 2014: Volume 68, Number 2
FEATURES: The role of voice in Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master; The Western Film And Psychoanalysis; Xavier Dolan Gets Respect; The Cinematic Life Of The Implosion; plus Festival Reports, Page Views, and more…
All posts tagged: Western
Rare Westerns from the Archive
Edward Buscombe reviews The West, 1898–1938, the latest boxed set from the National Film Preservation Foundation.
Whose Country?
Now that the desert desperation and motiveless malignity of No Country for Old Men (2007) has been showered with awards from the Directors Guild, the Screen Actors Guild, and finally the Oscar for Best Director(s) and Best Picture, it’s worth mulling over what the film, apart from its directorial panache, is actually about.
Easy Words
In this issue of Film Quarterly, four unusually lengthy works now available on DVD, which have a combined running time of forty hours, are reviewed. They range from poetic documentary to crime epic, but each is a work of the utmost distinction