CBS makes the "Rifleman" shoot again

Another project in the resurrection of the Western genre: CBS produced
a remake of the series "The Rifleman" who already was successful
decades ago.
The U.S. television has to be rediscovered in the Western. Also, CBS
is now developing a remake of "The Rifleman" a Western drama that has
been successful in the 1950s and 60s. That the long-term fallow genre
back in vogue, is not only shows the Oscar-nominated film "True Grit"
from the year 2010, who hit well at the box office, but also the TV
series "Hell on Wheels" to the sender AMC this week brought the
second-best series ever start.
In "The Rifleman" is about the Civil War hero Lucas McCain, a widower
who lives with his son on his own ranch in New Mexico. There he makes
friends with the local sheriff and his fast shooting Winchester became
the unofficial guardian of the city.

Cinema-offs - The films of 10 November 2011

Minimalist Western about a trek in the desert of Oregon

In Western "Meek's Cutoff" the independent American director Kelly
Reichardt reinvents the genre
It was a surprise when, rumored U.S. indie icon Kelly Reichardt will
turn next one Western. Finally, the filmmaker in recent years has
become acquainted with its consistent Cinema of minimalism. Her films
"Wendy and Lucy" and "Old Boy" were not a blockbuster, but critics and
fans responded enthusiastically. And now, a Western?
Well yes, there are also the Western poetic sub-genre of films of the
slowness and silence, which is traded higher among connoisseurs. This
is exactly where Reichardt, when she tells an episode from the Oregon
Trail in 1845. Countless Westerns have told their stories along a
trek, Reichardt says the trek proves that style and will.
"Meek's Cutoff" is a minimalist, meditative western that Antonioni
with Malick, Monte Hellman, with Werner Herzog crosses. A film that is
filled with the screech of the wagons, with which torment the three
families by high-desert plateau of Oregon. One trapper Stephen Meek
(Bruce Greenwood) has

The fine art of poker

Dusseldorf (RP). That poker is a game belongs to the category of
popular errors. The game requires a combination of patience and skill,
mathematics and psychology. With the World Cup victory of the German
Pius Heinz (22), the card game could be even more popular in this
country.
The Hollywood-ready story of the 22-year-old German Heinz Pius, who
went to Las Vegas poker champion will be fascinated, not just the
Poker Nation USA. Rise because the typical American dream of rags to
riches, has the boy with the biblical name (which is irritating to
word games such as poker Pope Pius) can be true the world over. With $
10,000 entry fee, the student of economic psychology resident in
Vienna on the multi-millionaire, gets in the field of 6865 players to
win bonus of $ 8.7 million (6.3 million €). And provides, as experts
predict, and the Casino Wiesbaden reported yesterday on the Internet,
for a run on the poker tables.

The Metropolis is the Wild West

The Cinefest displays up to 20 November "Europe's prairies and
canyons." Too many ideas actors and directors are expected.
The Western is a broad field: Lucky Luke (Jean Dujardin, second from
left) and Calamity Jane (Sylvie Testud, second from right) received an
escort. "Lucky Luke" runs on Sunday, 20.11.
Metropolis. When a film is actually a Western? When John Wayne rode
through Monument Valley? Or, men in plaid shirts beat in a bar? Or the
light with the hats are the good guys? With the exception of the first
aspect of the criteria available in the coming days on the bench. In
Metropolis, the original American genre until 20 November
zurückregionalisiert pleasurable. There the Cinefest runs in this
year's theme: "Europe's prairies and canyons between Western Siberia
and the Atlantic.".

"Winnetou" and the publican

My World Cinema
"Winnetou" and the publican
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Karl May is actually Pierre Brice as a child encounters. The Western
movies he may still not. Today, Karl May (45) for 15 years, a mattress
store in Neuehrenfeld, where he grew up.
Pierre Brice as a proud Apache chief Winnetou.
What was your first movie?
Karl May: It was "The robber Hotzenplotz" with Gerd Frobe in the lead
role. 1974 must have been. I remember that I read of the huge nose,
Gerd Frobe had at that time in the movie, was impressed. Even the big
cinema hall in the "Helios-air theater" at the Venloerstraße I loved
it. Only the way of Neuehrenfeld, where we lived, to the cinema - the
seemed endless. Later, I'm often there and then but I prefer viewed
Bruce Lee movies.

Lucky Luke Stay cool, dude!

Lucky Luke, the cowboy who draws faster than his shadow comes to
retirement age. 65 years ago, in December 1946, appeared in the
Belgian magazine Spirou his first adventure, "Arizona 1880".

This is Lucky Luke assaulted a stagecoach back on its feet given, the
Big Belly fraudsters a lesson, brings three gangsters behind bars and
may have something to yodel witty one on the lips. 65 years later, the
Western hero turns to the black pompadour still be just as unerringly,
brave and helpful. The only concession to age - or perhaps even to the
zeitgeist: the chain smoking, he gave up 1983rd For decades, he rides
at the end of his adventures, mostly solitary in the sunset, with the
song lines: ". I'm a poor lonesome cowboy and a long way from home"
The Belgian cartoonist Maurice de Bevere alias Morris (1923-2001)
settled to the images inspired by among other western movies, the

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