"Shooting the Shitter" The Hunting Party (1971), directed by Don Medford The Missouri Breaks (1976), directed by Arthur Penn Unforgiven (1992), directed by Clint Eastwood
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I post almost exclusively about minutiae related to the Old West and Western films/pop culture. I do drawings too. 🍉 Cheers! 🤠🍻🤠 & God bless 🙏 http://buymeacoffee.com/davidlambertart
The Left Handed Gun (1958), directed by Arthur Penn Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973), directed by Sam Peckinpah
Sam Peckinpah considered Charles Neider's The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones the best Western novel ever written. Listen to me speak at length about the novel & Peckinpah's own screenplay adaptation with @thelastmachine.bsky.social on The Pink Smoke podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/6fSi...
Ep 166 The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones
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The Left Handed Gun (1958), directed by Arthur Penn Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973), directed by Sam Peckinpah
Happy Birthday to the late Ted Cassidy, born 94 years ago today
School teacher turned Confederate guerrilla leader William Clarke Quantrill was born 189 years ago today
Happy Birthday to the late Geoffrey Lewis, born 91 years ago today
Proving he has an enlightening perspective on EVERY corner of the Old West, the brilliant @davidlambertart.bsky.social joins @tumbleweedstv.bsky.social to discuss a pair of Fatty Arbuckle Westerns, their problematic elements, and why they are still worth watching! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Episode 59: "Fatty" Arbuckle Westerns with David Lambert
Podcast Episode · Tumbleweeds and TV Cowboys · July 28 · 1h 5m
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Orson Welles talking shit on The Searchers & inauthentic women's fashion in Westerns:
Peter Bogdanovich on the brief period of time he was attached to direct Duck You Sucker! & Sergio Leone's interesting way of developing a project:
The entire 1973 article Peter Bogdanovich wrote for New York Magazine about working with Sergio Leone: scrapsfromtheloft.com/movies/peter...
PETER BOGDANOVICH ON HIS (BRIEF) EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH SERGIO LEONE - Scraps from the loft
My experiences with Leone prove that directors should never collaborate. It is, as Mailer has described it, a totalitarian job.
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Happy 82nd Birthday to the late Jimmy Cliff, born James Ezekiel Chambers
Westerns & the Old West@davidlambertart.bsky.social · 8mo agoR.I.P. Jimmy Cliff In The Harder They Come, Cliff's character Ivan sees Sergio Corbucci's Django in a crowded Kingston theater...
Happy Birthday to the late Edd Byrnes, born Edward Byrne Breitenberger 94 years ago today
Happy 65th Birthday to Laurence Fishburne
Happy 79th Birthday to Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger
Happy 76th Birthday to... you guessed it, Frank Stallone
Happy Birthday to the late Peter Bogdanovich, born 87 years ago today
Happy Birthday to the late David Warner, born 85 years ago today
Happy Birthday to Stephen McNally, born Horace Vincent McNally 115 years ago today
The Tall T (1957), directed by Budd Boetticher Heaven's Gate (1980), directed by Michael Cimino
Budd Boetticher's list of the best Westerns of all time: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Red River The Wild Bunch Seven Men from Now High Noon Shane Rio Bravo *from The Variety Book of Movie Lists (1994)
The Tall T (1957), directed by Budd Boetticher Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), directed by Sergio Leone
Here's a young Budd Boetticher getting knocked out by Tom Neal in Good Luck, Mr. Yates (1943)
An excellent thread, and another story of acting on your beliefs for the good of others!
Westerns & the Old West@davidlambertart.bsky.social · 2y agoA thread on the great Silas Soule, one of the few figures from Old West history that I unequivocally consider a hero. Be warned, this is going to get rough...
Happy Birthday to the great Budd Boetticher, born Oscar Boetticher Jr. 110 years ago today
Happy Birthday to the late Andrew McLaglen, born 106 years ago today
