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A belated review of the Western Stars film

I should have watched and reviewed it in 2019, but now I've got that monkey off my back - just in time for the No Nukes film to be released!

Enjoy, mates, hope this is worth your time!

18 comments

18 Comments

Bosstralian

Oct 17, 2021

Awesome review... as others have said, the fact that it leaves me wanting to watch the darn thing again RIGHT NOW suggests you've really nailed it with this one.

Interestingly by coincidence, someone on BTX has posted that Western Stars has been removed from Netflix here in Australia. Ah well, it's back to the Standard Definition DVD (which is the only physical release we got here Down Under) instead of the HD stream by the looks of it...

Louisa

Oct 16, 2021

Does anyone perhaps have an audio rip from the DVD?

Louisa

Oct 17, 2021

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Sorted. 😊

Louisa

Oct 16, 2021

Loved it! Thank you for compiling all (or not?) spoken vignettes, that's such a lovely and fitting term. I was, again, so moved by Bruce's wise words and by the relevance of your review.

Mario Brega

Oct 16, 2021

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Glad you enjoyed it. It's almost all of the monologues, as I had no clue how to fit the "Barn" reading in. I still wrote it out though.

"The Barn. We've got a hundred-year-old barn on our property. Built in the late 1800s, and the hayloft is simply a spiritual space. It has a high cathedral ceiling, that used to be packed with enough winter hay, to reach from the floor to the roof. Since we've had the place, we've held barn dances, weddings, harvest parties up there, so it's a space filled with the best kind of ghosts and spirits. When we knew we were going to film Western Stars, due to the instrumentation I knew we'd need some place that could fit a thirty-piece orchestra. Our barn is a structure that speaks to you, its natural beauty, the artistry of its construction, the aged wood, it's like a fine instrumental itself. It sounds good. It's just got soul. So for a few days, we got to play for a few friends and entertain the horses down below, so come on in, 'cause we're about to start our tale with the man who's just standing by the roadside."

Louisa

Oct 16, 2021

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@Mario Brega Thank you! 😊

Jerseyfornia

Oct 16, 2021

One of your best pieces. It will be on my mind while I'm in the high desert tomorrow.

Mario Brega

Oct 16, 2021

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Always feels like a trip when a write-up I think is "just fine" gets this sort of praise. Cheers!

SteveInJoburg

Oct 16, 2021

Superb K. Just superb. I have to pull out the DVD and watch it again tonight, thank you.

Mario Brega

Oct 16, 2021

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Thanks mate! I'll tell ya what, it was difficult at times when watching it to look away from the screen to make notes hahaha.

Jerseyfornia

Oct 16, 2021

I'll read this tonight with the soundtrack playing.

Bosstralian

Oct 15, 2021

I'll read it a bit later also when I have the time to give it the focus it no doubt deserves. At the moment I'm a bit flustered by the tease this thread gave me this morning... when I saw that the thread count in the main forum had increased from 215 to 216 overnight, I was hoping for the newest Nugs Release Appreciation topic to have been posted. Alas...

Louisa

Oct 15, 2021

I'll read it in the morning, as the substitute for the archive review. 🙂

Mario Brega

Oct 15, 2021

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Hopefully it's worth the wait 😀

riverdude4

Oct 15, 2021

What a brilliant read, thanks for writing and sharing.

Mario Brega

Oct 15, 2021

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Thanks!

Scott Peterson

Oct 15, 2021

I was going to make a snarky comment about you being so late and how this isn't what we pay you the big bucks for and all that...but then I read the review. Hokey smokes, what a fantastic piece.

Mario Brega

Oct 15, 2021

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Cheers mate! 🙂