What are your favorite Westerns?

In any form of media, not just film. For me in no particular order:
3:10 to Yuma
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the Revolution (aka Duck, you sucker which is a very unfitting name considering how serious the movie actually is)
Once Upon a Time in the West
Tombstone
Red Dead Redemption

I'm not a western-fan, i've seen many but don't remember most and can't really tell which ones are my favorite...

But i recently watched two westerns from the 70's and another one from 2010 which were very good!


McCabe & Mrs.Miller (1971)
Directed by Robert Altman, starring Warren Beatty, and it has Leonard Cohen songs!

Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
Directed by Sidney Pollack, starring Robert Redford

True Grit (2010)
Directed by the Coen brothers, starring Jeff Bridges

The Good the Bad The Ugly.
Fistful of Dollars.
For a few Dollars More.
Little Big Man.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Man called Horse.
The Wild Bunch.
The Outlaw Josey Wales.
The Searchers.
The Culpepper Cattle Company.
The Scalphunters.
Jeremiah Johnson.

Any form of media? Hmm... In no particular order:

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Jeremiah Johnson
The Outlaw Jose Wales
High Plains Drifter
Unforgiven
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Searchers
...and yes, Red Dead Redemption was a damn good game.

Deadwood was one of my favorite television series. Not a movie exactly, but a hell of a good TV series and it was a damn shame it ended early. It's also cool how they have real historical people and little accuracy in events.

Oh man, how could I forget Lonesome Dove or No Country For Old Men? The former is a great series, especially with the performances of Duvall and Jones. It's some of the best acting you will ever see, and I mean it. The latter...isn't a true Western but I think it has some of the characteristics of the genre.

Blood Meridian was a very brutal book but still beautiful in its own way.
Deadwood was just brilliant.
Unforgiven was a great deconstruction of the man without a name.
In red dead redemption you can ties nuns up with a lasso and put them on a train track.

I personally liked Dead man. Can`t recall any other, though.

Fury

srsly I straight up loved that as a kid, make your kids watch that

Wild wild west

Back to the Future III

Once Upon A ing Time In The West

Quick aside here, a few have mentioned Jeremiah Johnson. I had the pleasure of meeting Sydney Pollack before he died when he was at the Austin Film Festival. I was the last guy that got to ask him a direct question. I asked him about what it was like working with Stanley Kubrick on Eyes Wide Shut. He kinda gave me that jolly ha-ha grandfather storytime look and went on for like 15 minutes talking about Stanley Kubrick. It was ing awesome. Very personable guy and made currently under appreciated movies of high caliber.

So what was it like for him to work with Stanley Kubrick on Eyes Wide Shut? Share some info, please

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford was an unnoticed gem. Really it was the best movie of 2007, hands down. Absolute adored it and especially the soundtrack by Nick Cave/Warren Ellis.

Originally Posted by Lord of the Drunk Penguin

So what was it like for him to work with Stanley Kubrick on Eyes Wide Shut? Share some info, please

Unfortunately, I couldn't find the recording on the AFI website of the Q&A session after the interview. But I'm going to paraphrase what I remember him saying.

The first thing he said was something, "Heh, well you know those stories they say about people who are perfectionists. Perfectionist really is just a euphemism for pain in the ass. People kinda built this enigma out of Stanley and really I think he was just the first example of a real perfectionist. Stanley hardly ever had a specific vision he was working toward, because in reality, he had only a vague sense of what he wanted from a scene in the get go. All he knew was what he didn't want and worked from there. He would walk around the set with his little notebook, dribbling notes down constantly. He was one of those guys who had no real concern about time, because he had earned this freedom that is sought after by the best of those in the business. There were a lot of people who say that he was controlling, overbearing but in reality he considered nothing more than getting it right. He would take a scene and work at it repetitively until everyone broke through the sense that they were acting. Working with someone like that challenges and changes the way you look at acting."

Here is an interview on a Stanley Kubrick documentary where Sydney talks about it, and if you notice, some of what I paraphrase here is almost exactly what he stated in this.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twypjuDp_pk&t=3m9s

From 3:10 to 5:35

although a movie about a mountain man JEREMIAH JOHNSON still takes the win in my mind

most clint eastwood films i respect but i don't really care for john waynes stupid cliche cowboy and indian crap

Originally Posted by Luke Evans

most clint eastwood films i respect but i don't really care for john waynes stupid cliche cowboy and indian crap

Dude, get off your horse and wash your mouth out with milk.

The Duke made was in some great westerns. The Searchers and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon come to mind, True Grit, Rooster Cogburn, The Alamo.. He gets a lot of stick for being the archetypal 'Hollywood' cowboy but I think he deserves some credit for playing his parts well in the movies that had good scripts and directors.

Originally Posted by Godfrey I of Leuven

-The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Son of a... I don't know how I forgot that movie.

Originally Posted by Luke Evans

most clint eastwood films i respect but i don't really care for john waynes stupid cliche cowboy and indian crap

Excuse me?

Anything and everything by Sergio Leone.

-The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
-The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
-3:10 to Yuma

I'm afraid I don't really have good access to Westerns.