The Searchers
Stagecoach
Shane
The Wild Bunch
Unforgiven
The Dollars trilogy
Winchester 73
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
My Darling Clementine

I can't rank them but

THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE
THE SHOOTING
UNFORGIVEN
SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON
THE TALL T
HOMBRE
RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY
OPEN RANGE
RIO BRAVO
THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES...
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST

Saw a top 10 Westerns list in my feed, so thought I'd do one of my own.

What's the single overall best car chase in cinema history? One that almost has everything you would want from a car chase?

It's not a bold or original answer, but I think I have to go with the French Connection

@notoriouslightning.bsky.social I’m curious between two great westerns, Searchers and Wild Bunch, which do you respond to more? I’m a Wild Bunch guy more and more but still respond to both.

Rewatched The Departed, first time in years. Thought it was Scorsese doing Scorsese the first time, and it *kind* of is. But it's brilliantly crafted & fits perfectly into his crime oeuvre (cops as Boston's largest gang) and his anthropological epics about cities (GoNY, BotD, Age of Innocence).

This is just beautiful. Sincere but understated. You can feel the ache of loss. Scorsese is as good a writer as he is a director and actor. My house is full of books that he contributed essays, forewords, and introductions to, and every one is a gem.

Like Scorsese, Spielberg should be uncredited co-author of every movie, IMO. He's intimately involved in architecture of the story, either from the ground up or during rewrites, and finally on set, where he improvises entire setpieces on the fly.

Definitely. For instance (as per Richard Martin et al), Achilles talks like a poet - and he's born of both divine and mortal parents. Conversely, multiple, poly Odysseus is also in some ways single-minded; the epithet "polytlas", much-enduring/ resilient/ patient, speaks to that goal-oriented focus.