Westerns To Watch

By: Christo​pher Taylor

I love the Western. It is as much about the great outdoors as it is the question of what is it to be a man. Or more a marriage of the two ideas. Westerns also give us an opportunity to dissect the art of storytelling and pick it’s guts, seeing the possibilities of components fitting perfectly in limitless possibility, yet all having a slight and beautiful similarity. Like coming home.

• 01
  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  Sergio Leone
• 02
  The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  John Ford
• 03
  The Proposition
  John Hillcoat
• 04
  True Grit
  Henry Hathaway
• 05
  Unforgiven
  Clint Eastwood
• 06
  Once Upon a Time in the West
  Sergio Leone
• 07
  The Searchers
  John Ford
• 08
  The Wild Bunch
  Sam Peckinpah
• 09
  Shane
  George Stevens
• 10
  El Dorado
  Howard Hawks
• 11
  The Magnificent Seven
  John Sturges
• 12
  Dead Man
  Jim Jarmusch
• 13
  Man of the West
  Anthony Mann
• 14
  The Sons of Katie Elder
  Henry Hathaway
• 15
  A Fistful of Dollars
  Sergio Leone
• 16
  Stagecoach
  John Ford
• 17
  Winchester '73
  Anthony Mann
• 18
  The Man from Laramie
  Anthony Mann
• 19
  The Ox-Bow Incident
  William A. Wellman