Lights, Camera, New Mexico!
NESTLED AMONG the sagebrush and rocky, inhospitable terrain at the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, an octagonal hogan sits uninhabited. Just a few weeks earlier, a flurry of…
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Tag: Film History
Hollywood Vibe
Above: Snap a selfie at the “Calumet Says Howdy” mural in Las Vegas. COWBOY JACK BURNS GETS US. “Westerners hate fences,” he says in an early scene of Lonely Are the Brave. We certainly won’t blame…
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Little Beaver Rides On
Above: Arnold Vigil, who took the place ofTroy Vicenti when he was no longer able to work, played Little Beaver alongside Dave Saunders as Red Ryder. Photograph by Dick Kent Photography LLC. TROY…
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True Grit: New Mexico's Western Mythos
IN 2008, THE LURID DRAMA No Country for Old Men won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. A gloriously creepy essay on violence—in which a madman toting a cattle gun teases victims into calling a coin…
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