tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395849312265352764.post1739396297432502796..comments2024-03-20T03:44:33.420-04:00Comments on Saddlebums Western Review: Movie Review: My Darling ClementineGonzalo Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04947145087511918151noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395849312265352764.post-31692585254657438042007-11-27T09:07:00.000-05:002007-11-27T09:07:00.000-05:00A fond memory of something that has probably disap...A fond memory of something that has probably disappeared now was a Master Class given by the British director Lindsay Anderson on C4 here in the UK (July 1988 google tells me) deconstructing Clementine. The film was the one Lindsay claims as giving him the motivation to make movies and the one he admired the most, surprising in some ways when his films like O Lucky Man are at first glance as far removed as you could imagine from Ford's.<BR/>Ian ParnhamAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395849312265352764.post-59732265614415028512007-11-26T15:03:00.000-05:002007-11-26T15:03:00.000-05:00A sound wrap-up of a classic movie that passes mus...A sound wrap-up of a classic movie that passes muster today mainly as nostalgia.<BR/><BR/>Though it still might not apply to Hollywood screenwriters, modern western writers (especially those whom one US agent has dubbed "non-indigenous") are not allowed to take liberties with such facts as the public has accepted or can easily check.<BR/><BR/>Might not the playing fast and loose with history, as in MDC and other classics we enjoy, be yet another reason why the western has fallen into disrepute in many quarters?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com