Part of a larger legacy of Westerns since Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven (1992), the new Western reflects on the genre’s troubled history. In appreciation of the genre’s new and eclectic direction, let’s take a look at the best Westerns since Unforgiven. A frontier movie shot in twilight and cast in beautiful mellow blues, the film’s aesthetic poetry only slightly lessens Hugh Glass’s dirty and undignified survival quest after being left for dead. Meek’s Cutoff (2010)With a claustrophobic aspect ratio, the expanses of the open West become inhospitable as a group of frontiers people find themselves stranded in the open desert. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)A poetic meditation on myth and memory with echoes of Michael Ondaatje’s verse novella, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, The Assassination of Jesse James is a reflection on the last days of Jesse James and the mythic legacy of his story.

Source: National Post October 03, 2018 15:00 UTC