“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."

Directed by John Ford, “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” may not be the most exciting western ever made, and certainly not the most grand in scale. It lacks the sheer massive spectacle of the often renowned epics of Sergio Leone. Even in the context of John Ford’s films, it cannot quite compare to the epic story of “The Searchers” or the technical mastery of “Stagecoach”.

"Your style seems a bit slow to me"

Marlon Brando is an epic presence within Cinema. His performances in such actorly masterworks as On the Waterfront and The Godfather make him one of the most beloved actors of any generation. Yet despite this grand status he only directed one film, and that is a film that he did not even set out to direct.

WARNING: Contains Mild Spoilers

“You think this man is the enemy? Huh? This is a worker! Any union keeps this man out ain't a union, it's a goddam club!”

John Sayles’ Matewan is surely one of the most underrated films in American cinema in the last 30 years. It received only one Oscar nomination (for Haskell Wexler’s cinematography) which it didn‘t win, and has dropped into relative obscurity.

The Assassination of Jesse James is the second feature from New Zealand film director Andrew Domink, the man who brought us Chopper and Eric Bana. Unlike most predecessors of the Jesse James story this film deals with the final years of the American icon. Movie goers expecting to see a nostalgic tale of his famous robberies and his courageous gang leader qualities are in for a disappointment.

The Proposition has a simple set-up that is outlined in the first ten minutes of the film with one expository speech. Ray Winstone plays an English policeman who believes it is his job to civilise the young country of Australia, civilise it from the pervasive criminal element, presented in the film as Irish, and from the Aborigine’s that the white settlers found inhabiting the land when they got there.

The Great Silence is a 1968 frozen-spaghetti-western, the greatest western Klaus Kinski ever did and one infamous for its killer ending and drifter who never speaks, Sergio Corbucci. Unfolding in Utah during the Great Blizzard of 1899, il grande silenzio or The Big Silence is the great revenge tale of Silence (Jean-Louis Trintignant), muted as a child by bounty hunters, he has since held a grudge against all, commonly aggravating and killing any he encounters.

One of the most iconic films of all time with the image of Eastwood’s Blondie and Ennio Morricone’s score reaching far beyond those who have actually seen the film, becoming almost ubiquitous in society. It is also often held up as one of the finest films of all time and seen as the defining example of a Western.