The Western Revisited

The Western Revisited Sunday Brunches

Season

Please note : this season finished in Feb 2016

Once the most popular of Hollywood film genres, The Western went out of fashion when 60s counterculture got into full swing. However it continues to resurface in each decade since and continues to provide something of a running commentary on America’s view of itself or a source of fascination from non-Americans trying to tap the genre’s rich iconic cultural seams.

To accompany the current re-incarnations in Bone Tomahawk (Opens Fri 19 Feb) and recently released The Hateful Eight and The Revenant, we screen four recent revisits to the myths of the West.

Tickets: £6.50 full / £4.50 concessions and 24 and under. Get £1.00 off dishes over £7.00 in the Café/Bar on the same day with your ticket.


Previous screenings in this season

Slow West

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Slow West
Please note: This was screened in Feb 2016
Film

Scottish director John Maclean’s gloriously off-kilter western looked at the classic American genre through the eyes of an outsider with its jack-rabbit caught in a den of wolves tale about a young man’s travels from the cold shoulder of Scotland into the baking heart of America, to find his love.

The Salvation

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Salvation
Please note: This was screened in Feb 2016
Film

Mads Mikkelsen does what a man’s gotta do in Kristian Levring’s gripping Western tale of hate, murder and revenge on the pioneer trail, which injected a Danish twist on that most American of genres.

Meek’s Cutoff

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Meek’s Cutoff
Please note: This was screened in Feb 2016
Film

Intimate in detail but epic in implication, Kelly Reichardt’s beautiful and eerily poetic alt-Western defied the abiding Western mythology to privilege women’s experience in its telling of the tale of a 19th century wilderness guide who led three young couples and their children toward the new frontier of America's West.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Please note: This was screened in Feb 2016
Film

This slow-burning, but gripping and meticulously observed picture about the 1882 murder of legendary outlaw Jesse James marked a high point for the modern western in its tremendously stylish, intelligent retelling of the archetypal western myth.

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