Trailer: APPALOOSA
Amazing looking Western from Ed Harris starring Viggo Mortensen.
How God Damn fantastic is it to see the Western back on our big screens and in such a ballsy awesome way? I never thought we would see a year quite like 2007 ever again in the genre but we surely did. 3:10 to Yuma - the bad ass Old School Western, best I've seen since the 70's. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - a beautifully evocative poem about one of the legendary figures of the Wild West. A stunningly complex and a film to get totally obsessed about with two fine, fine performances from Casey Affleck and Brad Pitt. No Country For Old Men/There Will Be Blood. Not your conventional type of Western but Western all the same... and they were the two best movies of last year. Hands down. Seraphim Falls with Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan. Did you catch that one? It was gloriously violent and hard edged, loved it! So then comes Appaloosa, directed by and starring Ed Harris and it looks AMAZING.
Just look at the faces, the way Harris shoots the landscape, the dialogue. Let's hope this gets the buzz of last year's Westerns and can help this genre's quick rise and let's hope it doesn't fall again.Viggo Mortensen, Jeremy Irons, Renee Zellweger, Lance Henriksen!
I need to see this now. It's on limited U.S. release in October but let's hope it gets some buzz and stays round for a long time.