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WESTERN

By David Finkelstein | November 2008

The images in White’s video are a complex, overlapping collage of footage from vintage Westerns, original footage of the American West, tacky Western tourist sites, and cityscapes…

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WESTERN

On the soundtrack to Lili White's video "Western," filmmaker Margot Niederland tells a story of her trip to the occupied territories in Palestine. Warned...

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In the tradition of "Midnight Cowboy" and "Drugstore Cowboy" comes another film with the word “cowboy” in the title! I don’t mean to undermine this...

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