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A sparse and violent neo-western set against the backdrop of the Australian outback, “The Proposition” offers up a bleak holiday deadline for captured criminal Guy Pearce (“Memento”).
Eric’s Top 10 Non-Christmas Christmas Movies » Scene-Stealers 2007
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John Carpenter's mastery of hard-boiled genre tropes may be no more evident than in his 1976 masterwork Assault on Precinct 13, a neo-western bathed in urban decay and 70's racial tensions that packs - in 90 minutes, no less - more insight into life lessons and moral codes of honor do unto others, etc. than most filmmakers achieve in an entire career.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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John Carpenter's mastery of hard-boiled genre tropes may be no more evident than in his 1976 masterwork Assault on Precinct 13, a neo-western bathed in urban decay and 70's racial tensions that packs - in 90 minutes, no less - more insight into life lessons and moral codes of honor do unto others, etc. than most filmmakers achieve in an entire career.
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Her claim to fame: The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, a cowpunk neo-western yarn.
happy rangergirl day! (updated) jlundberg 2005
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Film Shaft now reports Refn will next write, produce and direct his neo-western
FirstShowing.net 2010
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Red Hill, the neo-western thriller which premiered at the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival.
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I think once I moved away from the fantasy/horror trappings I'd been playing with up 'til then, and into what might be called neo-western territory - with, therefore, a specifically American feel -
The Cult Dennis 2010
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A neo-western will be new territory for sure, and it will be interesting to see how Refn evolves with his work.
FirstShowing.net 2010
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"The Serpent's Egg" (a notorious bomb at the time, it may be due for reappraisal); and in 1980 appeared with Keith and Robert as the Younger Brothers in Walter Hill's "The Long Riders," a majestic neo-western that easily transcends the gimmickry of its casting.
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The neo-western HBO series Deadwood, which ran from 2004 to 2006, was clocked at a record-breaking 92.4 fph ( "fucks" per hour).
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