Western, USA

Movies I’ve seen so far that take either a non-traditional or a traditional but particularly distinctive route in portraying the American West, or use tropes of the Western (and some of those tropes’ transition into the road movie).

“Somebody’s always looking for something in this part of the West. To the historian it’s the Old West, to the book writer it’s the Wild West, to the businessman it’s the Undeveloped West — they say we’re all poor and backward, and I guess we are, we don’t even have enough water. But to us, this place is ‘our’ West, and I wish...