CRITICAL – This western, the first film by musician Jeymes Samuel, brings together bandits and black vigilantes in a deluge of blood and hip-hop hits. An impetuous but imperfect dusting, served by big names: Idris Elba, Regina King, Jonathan Majors. After the Civil War, a third of the cowboys who kept the herds were former […]
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First Cow: Kelly Reichardt’s pastry western lands on Mubi
CRITICAL – In this film, awarded at the Deauville American Film Festival, the filmmaker follows pioneers in Oregon in 1820 who made their fortunes by stealing the milk of the only cow in the county. A cow, a cook, an immigrant. With this absurd formula, filmmaker Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy) brings back the myth […]
Lee Aker, Rintintin’s inseparable young Rusty, died at 77
The American actor, child-hero with his German Shepherd from the American series, died on April 1 in great destitution. With his German Shepherd, true hero of the adventures of Rintintin as later was Pinball the dolphin, the young corporal Rusty will have marked in the years 1950 and 1960 the history of the first television […]
The Mission: carriage journey among the Indians
CRITICAL – Paul Greengrass abandons the frenzy of Jason Bourne to magnify the wild laws of the West. Basically, it was cheaper than the internet. Ten cents was the price to hear Tom Hanks read the papers aloud. In 1870, Captain Kidd, a former Confederate, crisscrossed Texas to bring the news to more or less […]
Tom Hanks: “Today, the western is no longer a very profitable genre”
INTERVIEW – At 64, the American actor stars in The mission. Pandemic requires, the film is not released in theaters, but on Netflix. The opportunity to talk about his complex role in Paul Greengrass’ film, today’s cinema and the impacts of the health crisis. It had been left last July, aboard a destroyer chased by […]