As Father's Day approaches, you know certain releases are timed to hopefully inspire a no-brainer attitude. While such marketing of reissues and bonus pack releases often leaves me rolling my eyes, it's hard to argue with The Outlaw Josey Wales Blu-Ray.
Somehow, both quintessentially western and almost western by technicality alone, few films have ever managed (or attempted) such a seemingly odd balance of genre norms and curiosities. Filled with gunfights, treachery, and revenge, mixed with equal parts humor and heart, the film finds itself often wondering how it ended up here as much as Josey does when confronted with things like old men staring at him through bits of candy.
The classic Eastwood title remains one of film's best, and best loved, westerns (and is my personal favorite), and this release not only offers up the Blu-Ray experience, but includes a new commentary track by Richard Schickel, and a...
Somehow, both quintessentially western and almost western by technicality alone, few films have ever managed (or attempted) such a seemingly odd balance of genre norms and curiosities. Filled with gunfights, treachery, and revenge, mixed with equal parts humor and heart, the film finds itself often wondering how it ended up here as much as Josey does when confronted with things like old men staring at him through bits of candy.
The classic Eastwood title remains one of film's best, and best loved, westerns (and is my personal favorite), and this release not only offers up the Blu-Ray experience, but includes a new commentary track by Richard Schickel, and a...
- 6/7/2011
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
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