Way Out West

To celebrate the release of Slow West we are presenting a short season of esoteric westerns that push the boundaries and rules of the genre.

Previously in this season

Dead Man

Jim Jarmusch’s typically idiosyncratic take on the western is perhaps his masterpiece. Sensitively shot, scored and performed, this synthesis of William Blake and meditative lyricism…

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Eagle’s Wing

This lyrical western, set among the savage landscape of canyons and plains of New Mexico, is one of very few westerns directed by a British…

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The Missouri Breaks

A rancher, a rustler, and a regulator face off in Arthur Penn's eccentric and increasingly influential western. As the psychopathic regulator Lee Clayton, Marlon Brando…

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The Hired Hand

Peter Fonda’s neglected masterpiece is one of the few feminist westerns and a notable addition to the genre. Beautifully shot by Vilmos Zsigmond and with…

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