American Westerns on Blu-ray

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Classic American Westerns

When in doubt, make a Western.
John Ford

"Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns.
They're art - the good ones, I mean. They deal in life and sudden death and
primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions - love, hate, and anger - thrown in.
We'll have westerns films as long as the cameras keep turning.
The fascination that the Old West has will never die."
John Wayne

"The western is our Shakespeare."
Robert Duvall in 1989.

“The English have Shakespeare, the French have Moliere,
the Russians have Chekhov. The Western is ours.”
Robert Duvall in 2006.


"... we have a tendency to think westerns are simple.
They are not simple. They're complicated ... the west was terribly complicated.
You had people who didn't share a language, who were at odds with each other.
There were guns. There was no law.
Try to live in that kind of environment and see how simple it is.
So when Hollywood makes simple westerns, they're not appealing to me.
They need to have a level of complication. Something has to be at stake. ..."
Kevin Costner at Cannes 2024

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