Fantastical and original movie set in 19th Century frontier country. Blake (Depp) becomes a wanted man and takes to the hills where he meets "Nobody", an Indian who thinks Depp is the English poet. Both comic and thought-provoking with wonderful visual landscapes and sound music, from cult director Jim Jarmusch.
find out more...
JEREMIAH JOHNSON (1972)
CertificationPG Our Rating
A superb historical film which explores the myth and reality of the tough trappers who roamed the unconquered West in the 1850s. Tenderfoot Jeremiah learns to fish, trap beaver, tell one Indian from another and stay alive. And all shot on location in fantastically beautiful desolate Utah snowscapes.
find out more...
RIDE IN THE WHIRLWIND (1965)
CertificationPG Our Rating
'Ride In The Whirlwind' was a cheapie shot back-to-back with 'The Shooting' and scripted by Jack Nicholson telling the story of three cowboys mistaken for outlaws and hunted by a band of vigilantes until two are dead and the third becomes a killer in self-defence. A gritty, stylised cult western.
find out more...
THE SHOOTING (1967)
CertificationPG Our Rating
The story follows Willett Gashade, an ex-bounty hunter who returns home searching for his brother, only to discover that he has disappeared. He is met by Coley, a frazzled cowboy and along with a beautiful but tempestuous woman the eclectic trio set out across the Utah desert. Along the way Gashade is reluctantly joined by the menacing presence of bounty hunter Billy Spear and as the tension escalates so violence becomes inevitable. Monte Hellman reinvented the Western genre with 'The Shooting',
find out more...