Hello,
Has anyone from the EU ordered from Arrow films recently, and had to pay import duties? I’ve ordered from them a few times lately, but this is the first time I’m being asked to pay additional charges.
I read on Arrow’s website that they will partially refund you, but I’m not sure which steps I have to take in order to get it done.
Hey Amigos and Amigas,
Keep your eyes peeled at High Def Digest as I’ll be contributing all non SW release reviews on their website under the name S. Tony Nash, here’s the first of those contributions
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Back from my vacation, will start replying to emails etc by tonight. I hope y’all enjoyed my radio silence 
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Curious at to what you folk think about this recent IndieWire 100 Best Westerns of all time list. Most of these big lists by these magazine companies are a crock of shite so I wonder how this one holds up.
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Tombstone at 93? Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid at 85? Johnny Guitar at #1?
And these are just three of the things that pissed me off. 
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I actually stopped scrolling when I saw Butch Cassidy at only 85 haha
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What people choose at any particular number doesn’t bother me so much. It’s subjective of course. Just like my opinion. What disappoints me more is that a good quarter of these films are not actually westerns in my book. A large chunk are “neo westerns”, a handful are not set in the American west and a couple are documentaries FFS. Oh, and one is a serial. And not a very good one.
If you are going to list your top 100 westerns at least have 100 westerns in it.
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Ha ha, yes, true, 100 westerns is already a tough choice, and I also would not waste the limited space with films which have only some connections to the genre, which are at best half-westerns.
And it seems they needed also some space to include enough westerns made by women or blacks for … well, you know for what. Half of those are probably in …
Johnny Guitar at # 1, why not, but all the silent films are nor good enough to be in such a list. The Great Train Robbery is fine for a film made in 1903, it’s an interesting start for the genre, but barely good enough to make the top 12.
But then, like all lists, it is a subjective list, it does not tell a truth, only a possibility. For my taste more interesting list of that kind exists, and of course they also include filme I don’t care much for.
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‘Bareback Mountain’ is placed higher than ‘The Wild Bunch’, ‘The Shootist’, 'Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid’, ‘The Magnificent Seven’ (1960), ‘Django’…!!
‘A Fistful of Dollars’ at No. 83!! Sacrilage!
Clint’s opinion of whoever compiled the 100 Greatest Westerns list…
“MADNESS…MADNESS…!!!”
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So this list shows the order in which the journalists watched these films ??? … It feels like a mixture of ignorance of the genre and the history of film in general, and as mentioned a patronising nod towards the minorities in cinema … I knew starting out I shouldn’t have bothered reading this list … it’s for the dumb as fuck media students types, who won’t recognize even 10% of the films listed, good or bad.
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I love a list, but that list posits the notion that sci-fi craphouse Nope (Peele, 2022) is a better Western than A Fistful of Dollars (Leone, 1964), which represents for me something of a fatal blow to its credibility.
Some interesting movies on there though, nonetheless. 
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List to appease the wokies
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It’s imo much better than Mag 7, but surely beneath TWB.
Some of my top 10 westerns are not in that list, so …
The top 50 films are all good or great, except Pale Rider, which is a boring mess.
The including of the silent The Winning of Barbara Worth, a nowadays forgotten blockbuster, is a very unusal choice, but again, I have no idea why this one is in.
I hate these lists because they’re centered around American Westerns, and the only SWs on the list will be Dollars trilogy, OUaTiTW, and in some rare cases, Django 
Check the list again …
… but generally, I wouldn’t expect from a list compiled by English speaking people a list which is not centered around English language films.
Actually considering the many odd choices, and that about one quarter are not really westerns, there are surprisingly much Spags in the list. And again 3 I would not expect in such a list.
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And no Steffen.
I mean, really…?
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I hope you amigos don’t mind me going on a little rant here, but there’s this really annoying trend that I’m seeing become more vocal with people my age and how they view films that depict awful people and/or violent acts.
I was scrolling through TikTok (first mistake 
) and come across this post.
She was basically trying to say that men who enjoy any films that have any depictions of women being treated badly were weird (or a “red flag” as the kids say).
The two main films that she kept bringing up in the comments were A Clockwork Orange and Raging Bull. It’s so bizarre to me that so many people were agreeing with her, and seemingly agreeing that if you like a movie where that kind of stuff happens in it, it’s like you are endorsing it in real life?? I just don’t understand it, no one loves Raging Bull cause you think Jake LaMotta is a cool dude, he’s a pathetic and abusive piece of shit that you despise by the end, and that’s by design.
She also kept being up ‘empathy’ as a key point, and that it’s “obvious when a director has empathy towards the woman”. Like are you genuinely trying to say the sweet old fella Martin Scorsese isn’t trying to be empathetic to Jake’s wife? I just don’t understand how that idea can even form in your head. She seemed to whip this comment out every time someone with common sense replied to the post.
Sorry again for the rant, it just annoys me that this is gonna become more and more how people think about movies.
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You had to get it off your chest, so not a rant, but an observation of the kind of people one finds on social media, who have really nothing to say, but it doesn’t stop them talking … It’s all about her getting attention, not the subject under discussion.
I had an incident with a self proclaimed feminist who during a chat about favourite films, made a comment about GBU, a film which she hadn’t seen personally, ‘but had heard’ that Sergio Leone was a sadistic misogynist, down to the slapping of ‘Maria’, ‘Fresh young whore in the territory’; … I pointed out that the character, ‘Angel Eyes’ is a terrifying monster who couldn’t care less about ‘Maria’s’ gender … He’s looking for info and beats her until he gets it, a scene which serves the plot … I told her that in LVC’s earlier scenes, he has murdered 3 people, shooting one in the face multiple times at point blank range, and smiling while he does it … from that perspective, ‘Maria’ had got off very lightly.
The point is that you will always find people who are eager to criticise without having any actual basic intelligence to interpret the difference between drama and reality.
Also … I’d bet my last cigar that this ignoramus has picked up on someone else’s lame theory … Jumping on the moron bandwagon.
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I think the “Literally me” trend from some time ago has something to do with this, because there are men idolizing Patrick Bateman from American Psycho and they want to be like him 
Some of them are joking, of course, while others are actually serious.
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