About Western Movies

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@selfstyledsiren That dialogue could use some editing. (Three-and-a-half hours of this?)🤨

This may sound like hyperbole from Justine Triet, but The Mother and the Whore really does rewire your brain. James Wolcott called it "a movie where existential and penitential were conjoined."

3/ This excerpt gives just the merest HINT of the visual and musical power of this forgotten Western flick. Fusion of sound and image is the essence of the motion picture art. youtube.com/watch?v=Im6pCk… #WilliamWyler

If I had to choose one snippet from a movie to represent the exuberance of the American personality, it'd be this one, from, yes, The Big Country. (One of my favorite films, needless to see. Have never seen it on an actual movie screen!🙁) youtube.com/watch?v=1ogmID… #westerns

The U.S. intelligentsia will prefer a static three-and-a-half-hour French art film to a legitimately-intelligent American classic with perhaps the greatest musical score in movie history. Why? They love to pretend that narrow-and-dull art is good. Snob appeal? You tell me.

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Let's admit that today's culture-- especially the endless parade of computer-generated movies-- is mostly crap. A return to Westerns is a return to authentic reality. #cinema

FWIW, in my opinion the best film portrayal of Napoleon is Herbert Lom in the underrated 1956 movie version of Tolstoy's War and Peace. Lom captures what was undoubtedly the egomania of the man-- kind of an early version of DJT, or Musk.

QUESTION OF THE DAY: Are tech guys like Sam Altman who are working toward the end of humanity evil, or just insane?🤔 #AI #OpenAI

When you use AI chatbots or services in any way, what you are in fact doing is making the richest individuals on the planet even richer. Please, DON'T FEED THE BILLIONAIRES!! #stoptheplutocracy

ANOTHER fast reaction, at Fast Pop Lit, to Jon Fosse winning this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. fastpoplit.com/2023/10/05/jon… #NobelPrize #writers

REGARDING some of us warning about the effects of AI: Remember that Cassandra turned out to be right. (A still from a film version of "The Trojan Women" with one of the best casts ever, incl Katharine Hepburn, Irene Pappas, Vanessa Redgrave, and Genevieve Bujold as Cassandra.)

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The CEO of OpenAI, which produces devices like Dall-E and ChatGPT designed to replace real poets and writers. He's making billions💰 at the expense of those who've spent years learning their craft. Sign the petition! Save Our Writers! change.org/SavetheWriter #plutocrats #tech

Do you trust this guy? Bill Gates' company, Microsoft, just invested an additional $10 billion into AI and bot technology. Right now they're replacing artists & writers. Who's next? Sign the Save the Writer petition today-- change.org/SavetheWriter #StoptheBots #BillGates

@DailyFlickNY @marcsklein @Westerns1960 As far as I know there's only one Cinerama screen left in USA, in Los Angeles. Wish there were more!

@marcsklein #HowTheWestWasWon via #In70mm: How The West Was Won - in Cinerama. Greg Kimble's October, 1983 article details the making of epic 1962 western in #Cinerama process. #TCMParty in70mm.com/news/2002/west…

The Mercenary *3.75 - Sergio Corbucci Spag Western Teams Gun For Hire Franco Nero w/ Mexican Revolutionary (Tony Musante) In Search Of Silver Mine #DFNYLAWestern imdb.com/rg/an_share/ti…

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