Just joined after the excellent Chris Mack #netflix Pitch presentation last week. I'm interested in Indigenous cinema and just watched Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk's MALIGLUTIT feature based loosely on John Ford's THE SEARCHERS. Well worth checking out how a 'western' became a 'northern'. Good article on it here: https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/movies/if-the-searchers-was-a-wes...
Filmmaking / Directing : Indigenous Cinema - How a western became a northern by Dave Geary
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Hey Dave, this is Karen from the Stage 32 team. I just wanted to let you know I moved your post from Anything Goes to Filmmaking / Directing, as it fits much better there. Let me know if you have any questions, and all the best to you!
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This is a fascinating article! Any Western fans here? I think Nick is...
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Hey Dave, the film 'Maliglutit' looks really good, and the landscape I imagine would also be so cinematic for a story like this. I will have to watch it now... Love the term 'Northern'. There are some great films in what may be a similar Indigenous and western vein made here in Australia, exploring themes on the history here of colonial violence. A recent film 'Sweet Country' by Director Warwisk Thornton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Country_(2017_film)
Thanks Karen "Kay" Ross And Jessica B Thanks for the 'Sweet Country' tip. I love Warwick Thornton's film Samson and Delilah. I teach it in my Indigenous World Cinema class at Capilano University in Vancouver, Canada. The making of the film by Beck Cole is also great. The Australian films that Rolf de Heer has made, Ten Canoes and Charlie's Country, are also faves, where he works with with David Gulpilil. None of these are westerns per se, but the Australian landscape is definitely a character. I'm originally from New Zealand and of Maori descent, and one of the most impressive 'revisionist westerns' that took on colonial violence was UTU (1983), It got a redux version more recently: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/uturedux The famous American film critic, Pauline Kael, was a big fan of this movie.