Why We Still Need Westerns

September, 2016

Director Antoine Fuqua's take on The Magnificent Seven is both classic and urgentWhy We Still Need WesternsFILMDirector Antoine Fuqua's take on The Magnificent Seven is both classic and urgentWho says the Western is dead? Granted, recent sagebrush epics Diablo, Jane Got a Gun and Forsaken bit the dust, but The Revenant made wagonloads of money and won three Oscars. So don’t mourn the noble American genre just yet— especially when director Antoine Fuqua, known for the edgy cop dramas Training Day...

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