The scholar, songwriter, pilot also acted in dozens of Westerns If he’d done nothing but write Me and Bobby McGee, and Sunday Morning Coming Down,...
Kris Kristofferson— A Texan at Oxford
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DVD Reviews
DVD Review: Dawson City Duo
Those Redheads from Seattle (Kino Lorber; $19.95); Dawson City: Frozen Time (Kino Lorber; $29.95 and pictured above). A perfect pairing: two movies...
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The best DVD edition of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is the “Ultimate Collector’s Edition” from 20th Century Fox. We love it for the “making...
Little Big Man
The Western was fair game in 1970, when the movie Little Big Man was released. Those were cynical times, and people were polarized—politically,...
Unforgiven
Clint Eastwood deserves all of the accolades he’s received for the movie Unforgiven, including a Best Picture Oscar and Golden Globe, but a brand...
Meek’s Cutoff
Director Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff is not an action picture or a conventional Western, any more than The Assassination of Jesse James was a...
Treasures 5: The West, 1898-1938
The National Film Preservation Foundation has dedicated an entire three-DVD collection to the American West and the Western. For hardcore fans, this...
Stars in My Crown
The 1950 movie Stars in My Crown stars Joel McCrea as a Civil War vet, Josiah Gray, who arrives in a Tenneesee town as the new pastor. The story is...
Ambush
Robert Taylor’s second Western after Billy the Kid, 1950’s Ambush, is an underrated cavalry picture. Hard boiled characters were everywhere in that...
Tim Holt Western Classics
Warner Bros. has issued the first of what I hope will be several Tim Holt collections. This five-disc, 10-movie set shows Holt at the beginning of...
True Grit
Fans of the original version of True Grit may be divided in their opinions about the remake, but we all have the Coen brothers to thank for...
Streets of Laredo/Dead Man’s Walk
Both the prequel and the sequel to CBS’s Emmy award-winning Lonesome Dove miniseries are now available in two-disc DVD packages. Neither 1996’s Dead...