Word: appaloosa
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...consider all these aspects of the genre as Appaloosa unfolds at a trot both leisurely and tense. It's good to spend time with a movie that takes its time. Granted, Harris doesn't advance the genre; instead he burrows into it, finds a home there, as one might retreat to musty library stacks, where old pleasures and treasures await...
...western like Appaloosa, never takes a while to come. The best thing about the picture, which Harris also directed and co-wrote, is its respect for the strengths of a film form that dominated Hollywood 50 years ago but today is made only when a pedigreed actor like Harris (or Kevin Costner or Tommy Lee Jones) insists...
...Appaloosa isn't a revisionist western, like the Sam Peckinpah and Sergio Leone films of the 1960s and '70s, which revitalized the genre and pretty much wore it out; this one is ordinary and borderline ornery. It lacks the verve of 3:10 to Yuma, the sullen sweep of Brad Pitt's Jesse James epic, the deranged energy of Sukiyaki Western Django, to name just three oaters from last year. But in its fidelity to western verities, Appaloosa may seem radical to today's viewers. At a time when images in all visual media bombard the brain, the western...
...script, which Harris and Robert Knott have fashioned from Robert B. Parker's novel, Virgil and his sidekick Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortensen) have come to Appaloosa to cleanse it of the violence, intimidation and corruption of Bragg and his men. That they will achieve their goal is virtually a given: How many times, in a standard western, has the bad guy won? (About as many times as the richest man in town has also been the most sympathetic.) What's at issue is not the speed of Virgil's hand but the intelligence of this cowboy's heart...
...Bear’s Place. $8. (KF)Friday, Nov. 25Buskin & Batteau and Family & Friends. One of folk music’s favorite acoustic duos brings you a family and friends Thanksgiving weekend reunion, including a rare solo acoustic appearance by Robin Lane, John Parker Compton and “Appaloosa,” David Batteau and “Batteaux,” “Rockabetty” with Yani Batteau and others. Sanders Theatre. 8 p.m. Tickets available through the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. $27/23. (KAF)Karacter CD Release Party. This night celebrates the CD release...