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If Chloé Zhao manages to nab this year's directing Oscar for Nomadland, she won't be the first to win for a drama about down-on-their-luck itinerant workers making their way across the American West.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic“Cowboys” taps directly into the myth of the American male, with his leather boots and blue jeans, square jaw and wide stance, as immortalized in the collective imagination by painter Frederick Remington, director John Ford and decades of Marlboro tobacco advertising. But it does so with a twist: This debut feature from Anna Kerrigan explores how that tough-guy archetype impresses itself on a gender-nonconforming child.

Linda Cristal, the Golden Globe-winning actress who portrayed Victoria Cannon, the wife of Leif Erickson's character, on the 1967-71 NBC WesternThe High Chaparral, has died. She was 89.

Eureka! has got in touch in regards to their upcoming release of Rio Grande, John Ford’s excellent John Wayne-led movie from 1950. The release is part of the distributor’s ‘Masters Of Cinema’ series and will arrive later this month.

Actors sometimes complain about being typecast, but it’s a fact of life for anyone in entertainment. John Ford is usually labeled a director of Westerns, despite “The Grapes of Wrath” and  “Mister Roberts.” David Lean is known for his epics, but he also directed “Brief Encounter” and “Summertime.” Vincente Minnelli? The director of musicals, overlooking “The Bad and the Beautiful,” “Lust for Life” and “Some Came Running.”