WESTERN MOVIES [PREVEDENI] - 2003

• And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003) PANČO VILA 
• Cold Mountain (2003) HLADNA PLANINA 
• Ghost Rock (2003) GRAD DUHOVA 

• Gods and Generals (2003) BOGOVI I GENERALI

• Hard Ground (2003) SUROVA ZEMLJA [aka KAMENA PUSTINJA]

• Long Ride Home, The (2003) DUG POVRATAK KUĆI

PANČO VILA 
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003)
[Antonio Banderas ... Pancho Villa, Eion Bailey ... Frank Thayer, Alan Arkin ... Sam Drebben, Jim Broadbent ... Harry Aitken, Matt Day ... John Reed, Michael McKean ... William Christy Cabanne, 
Colm Feore ... D.W. Griffith, Alexa Davalos ... Teddy Sampson, Anthony Head ... William Benton (as Anthony Stewart Head), Kyle Chandler ... Raoul Walsh, Saul Rubinek ... Eli Morton, Cosme Alberto ... Abraham Sanchez, Damián Alcázar ... Gen. Rodolfo Fierro, Pedro Armendáriz Jr. ... Don Luis Terrazas (as Pedro Armendáriz), Fernando Becerril ... Priest]
- Hollywood makes a deal with Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa to film his war and recreate his life. Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa (A. Banderas) finds himself without adequate funding to finance his war against the military-run government. He also finds himself at odds with the Americans because of the Hearst media empire's press campaign against him. To counter both of these, he sends emissaries to movie producers to convince them to pay to film his progress and the actual battles. Producer D.W. Griffith (C. Feore) becomes interested and sends Frank Thayer (E. Bailey) with a film crew to develop film reels. Thayer becomes horrified and fascinated by the bandit. He finds an enigmatic individual that is both ghoulishly brutal and charmingly captivating. The resulting film became the first feature length movie, introducing scores of Americans to the true horrors of war that they had never personally seen. Thayer sold the studios on making the film despite their concerns that no one would sit through a movie longer than 1 hour by convincing them that they could raise the... [Director: Bruce Beresford] [112 min, 1.78 : 1, Biography l Drama l History, USA]
- Vođa meksičke revolucije Pančo Vila pozove holivudske producente da snime o njemu film. Godine 1914. Pančo Vila (A. Banderas) je na čelu meksičke revolucije protiv diktature Porfirija Dijaza, a kako mu nedostaje sredstava za vođenje rata, pozove holivudske producente da snime o njemu film u zamenu za određen dolarski iznos. U Meksiko tako dolazi producent Frenk Tajer (E. Bailey), predstavnik kompanije Mutual, koji po uputstvima glavnih Mutualovih producenata Harija Aitkena i D.W. Grifita kreće u produkciju... Pančo Vila će u filmu glumiti samog sebe, dok će ga u mladim danima dočarati ambiciozni glumac i budući reditelj Raul Volš. Istovremeno, desničarski medijski tajkun Herst u Americi vodi kampanju protiv Vile... 

HLADNA PLANINA 

Cold Mountain (2003)

[Jude Law ... Inman, Nicole Kidman ... Ada Monroe, Renée Zellweger ... Ruby Thewes, Eileen Atkins ... Maddy, Brendan Gleeson ... Stobrod Thewes, Philip Seymour Hoffman ... Reverend Veasey, Natalie Portman ... Sara, Giovanni Ribisi ... Junior, Donald Sutherland ... Reverend Monroe, Ray Winstone ... Teague, Kathy Baker ... Sally Swanger, James Gammon ... Esco Swanger, Charlie Hunnam ... Bosie, Jack White ... Georgia, Ethan Suplee ... Pangle]

- In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart. This Civil War saga addresses romance, friendship, and the ravages of war-both in the field and on the home front. Captures the horrors of war for both those fighting it, and for those left behind. This is a tale of hope, longing, redemption, second chances, and faith. [Director: Anthony Minghella] [Charles Frazier (book)] [154 min, 2.35 : 1, Drama l History l Romance, USA-UK-ROM-ITA]

- Ekranizacija istoimenog romana Čarlsa Fraziera o dvoje zaljubljenih koje rastavi građanski rat. Kada je najavljeno da će reditelj i scenarista Entoni Mingela ekranizovati roman Hladna planina, bio je dovoljan razlog da novi spoj ratne epopeje, ljubavne priče i besprekorne produkcije bude proglašen jednim od najiščekivanijih američkih filmova 2003. godine. Juli, 1864. godine. Američki građanski rat približava se raspletu i sve je izvesnije da će Jug doživeti poraz. Među malodušnim vojnicima Konfederacije je i Inman (J. Law) koji počne planirati beg sa bojišta u Virdžiniji na kojoj je sve više mrtvih. Ali, Inman ne beži samo od smrti nego se želi vratiti voljenoj Adi (N. Kidman) koja ga čeka na svom opustošenom imanju u Severnoj Karolini... Tri godine ranije. Ada živi sa svojim ocem propovednikom Monroom (D. Sutherland), zagleda se u mladog radnika na imanju Inmana. I dok se između njih dvoje rađa ljubav, zemlja srlja u sukob. Kada rat između Severa i Juga zaista plane, Inman ode u vojsku, dok Ada nakon očeve smrti ostane sama na imanju. U pomoć joj pritekne pričljiva i odlučna Rubi (R. Zellweger)... Zaplet filma mnoge je podsetio na klasik Prohujalo sa vihorom. Njegova je glavna junakinja Ada, kći propovednika sa američkog Juga koja se uoči početka građanskog rata 1861. godine zaljubi u radnika na očevom imanju Inmana. Ali, ratne će strahote razdvojiti dvoje zaljubljenih. Središnja ljubavna priča i u romanu i u filmu ima važne odvojke u nemilim događajima koji prate oboje protagonista pa su, na primer, Inmanovi susreti sa najrazličitijim likovima presek ponora, ali i uspona društva koje se usled sukoba našlo u gotovo bezizglednoj situaciji. Angažovavši vrhunske saradnike, Mingela je sjajno dočarao očaj opustošene zemlje pa film u vizualnom smislu pleni posebno realističnim prizorima u fascinantnoj fotografiji snimatelja Džona Sila.

GRAD DUHOVA 

Ghost Rock (2003)

[Gary Busey ... Jack Pickett, Michael Worth ... John Slaughter, Jeff Fahey ... Moses Logan, Adrienne Barbeau ... Mattie Baker, Craig Wasson ... Cherokee Bill, Jenya Lano ... Savanah Starr, James Hong ... Weng, John Laughlin ... Sheriff Clay, Rance Howard ... Cash, David Jean Thomas ... Kill'n Jim Jackson, Christa Sauls ... Jasmine, April Hong ... Ming, Peter Kwong ... Song, Michiko Nishiwaki ... Hana, Dan Southworth ... Wu Chen (as Daniel Southworth)]

- In 1882, 20 years after an almost forgotten massacre took place, the only living witness to the crime, John Slaughter, returns to the town where it happened. Now finding the town run by the man behind the terrible act, Slaughter teams up with the mysterious gunslinger Savannah Starr to try and rid the west of one of it's great evils. [Director: Dustin Rikert] [101 min, 1.85 : 1, Action l Drama l Western, USA]

- 20 godina posle skoro zaboravljenog masakra iz 1882. godine, jedini živi svedok, Džon Sloter (M. Worth), vraća se u grad gde se sve dogodilo. Otkrivši da gradom sada upravlja čovek koji stoji iza svega, Sloter se udružuje sa misterioznim revolverašem zvanim Savana Star (J. Lano). Zajedno će pokušati da se reše zločinca.

BOGOVI I GENERALI

Gods and Generals (2003)

[Stephen Lang ... Lieutenant General Stonewall Jackson (CSA), Jeff Daniels ... Lieutenant Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (20th Maine, USA), Robert Duvall ... General Robert E. Lee (CSA), Kevin Conway ... Sergeant Buster Kilrain (20th Maine, USA), C. Thomas Howell ... Lieutenant Thomas Chamberlain (20th Maine, USA), Jeremy London ... Captain Alexander "Sandie" Pendleton (CSA), Matt Letscher ... Colonel Adelbert Ames (20th Maine, USA), Brian Mallon ... Major General Winfield Scott Hancock (USA), Bo Brinkman ... Major Walter H. Taylor (CSA), Bruce Boxleitner ... Lieutenant General James Longstreet (CSA), William Sanderson ... Major General A.P. Hill (CSA), Billy Campbell ... Major General George Pickett (CSA), Alex Hyde-White ... Major General Ambrose E. Burnside (USA), Joseph Fuqua ... Major General J.E.B. Stuart (CSA), John Prosky ... Brigadier General Lewis A. Armistead (CSA), Royce D. Applegate ... Brigadier General James L. Kemper (CSA), Patrick Gorman ... Major General John Hood (CSA), W. Morgan Sheppard ... Major General Isaac R. Trimble (CSA), James Patrick Stuart ... Colonel Edward Porter Alexander (CSA), Jonathon Demers ... Brigadier General Richard S. Ewell (CSA), Andrew Prine ... Brigadier General Richard B. Garnett (CSA), James Garrett ... Brigadier General John C. Caldwell (USA), J. Scott Watkins ... Brigadier General Raleigh E. Colston (CSA), Fred Griffith ... Brigadier General Robert Rodes (CSA), Tim O'Hare ... Colonel St. Clair Augustine Mulholland (USA), John Castle ... Brigadier General William N. Pendleton (CSA), Ted Turner ... Lieutenant Colonel Waller T. Patton (CSA), Lester Kinsolving ... Brigadier General William Barksdale (CSA), Cooper Huckabee ... Henry Thomas Harrison, Mira Sorvino ... Fanny Chamberlain, Kali Rocha ... Anna Jackson, Donzaleigh Abernathy ... Martha, Karen Hochstetter ... Roberta Corbin, Martin Clark ... Dr. George Junkin, Stonewall Jackson's Spiritual Leader and Ex-Father-in-law, Christie Lynn Smith ... Catherine Corbin, Damon Kirsche ... Vaudevillian Harry McCarthy]

- The rise and fall of legendary war hero Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson as he leads the Confederacy to great success against the Union from 1861 to 1863. Prequel to the 1993 classic "Gettysburg". The film centers on the life of Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, the God-fearing and militarily brilliant yet eccentric Confederate general, from the outbreak of the American Civil War until its halfway point when Jackson, while on a night ride with his staff to plan the next day's battle, is accidentally shot by his own soldiers in May 1863 while commanding at the Battle of Chancellorsville. It also follows Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and Winfield Scott Hancock. Chamberlain is a Maine college professor who is appointed a Lieutenant Colonel and becomes second-in-command of the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment. The film prominently features the Battles of Bull Run (1st Manassas), Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. The film's original running time clocked in at nearly 6 hours (much like the original running time of Gettysburg). The longer version featured the Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) as well as an entire plot following the American actor and future assassin John Wilkes Booth and his colleague Henry Harrison (from Gettysburg). This film opens with Colonel Robert E. Lee's resignation from the Union Army, accompanied by the perspectives of various politicians, teachers, and soldiers as the south secedes from the Union and both sides prepare for war. Major Jackson, who is a professor at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington at the outset of the war, leaves his family behind to do battle at Manassas Junction. Jackson is asked by a retreating General Barnard Bee for assistance against the Federal army who is pursuing them after a brief stand on Matthews Hill. In rallying his shaken troops, Bee launches the name of Stonewall into history and the Confederates rout the Federals at Henry House Hill. Jackson maintains steadfast discipline in his ranks during the battle despite suffering a wound to his left hand from a spent ball. Meanwhile, Chamberlain makes his transition from teacher to military officer and practices drilling his soldiers, and is taught military tactics by Col. Adelbert Ames, the commander of the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment. He is called to battle at the Union invasion of Fredericksburg. The southern forces lead a fighting retreat as the Union army crosses the river and storms the town, and there are scenes of the subsequent looting of Fredricksburg by the Union Army. Outside the city, Lee, Longstreet and Jackson have prepared an elaborate defense on Marye's Heights outside the town, and the movie focuses on Confederate defenses behind a formidable stone wall. Several Union brigades, including the Irish Brigade, attempt to cross an open field and attack the wall, but are thrown back with heavy losses by confederate rifle and artillery fire. At one point, two Irish units are forced into battle against one another, to the anguish of a southern Irishman who believes he is killing his kin. Chamberlain leads an unsuccessful attack against Jackson's defenses, led by Brig. Gen. Armistead and finds his unit pinned down in the open field. He survives by shielding himself with a corpse until nightfall; eventually he and surviving members of 20th Maine are ordered to retreat and spend 2 nights in the field on the battlefield, sleeping with the dead. Chamberlain and the defeated Union soldiers depart Fredericksburg. Jackson and Lee return to the city, and Lee is confronted by an angry senior citizen whose house has been destroyed by Union artillery. Jackson spends the rest of the winter at a local plantation, Moss Neck Manor, where he contracts a friendship with a little girl who lives there. Later, Jackson discovers the child has died from scarlet fever and he begins to cry. A soldier asks why he weeps for this child but not for the thousands of dead soldiers, and another soldier states that Jackson is weeping for everyone. Jackson is soon reunited with his wife and newborn child just before the Battle of Chancellorsville. Outside Chancellorsville, Lee identifies that the southern army faces an opposing force almost twice their size. Jackson calls upon his chaplain, Beverly Tucker Lacy who knows the area, and asks him to find a route by which the southern forces can infiltrate in secret. Jackson then leads his forces in a surprise attack on an unprepared Union 11th Corps. Although his men initially rout the opponents, they quickly become confused in the melee, and Jackson's attack is stalled - While scouting a path at night, Jackson is caught in no-mans-land between the 2 armies and badly wounded by his own men, who had mistaken him and his staff for Union cavalry counterattacking. During his evacuation, his litter bearers are targeted by artillery and drop Jackson on the ground. He is then taken to a field hospital where his arm is amputated. Lee remarks that while Jackson has lost his left arm, he (Lee) has lost his right. Jackson dies shortly after, of pneumonia he had contracted during recovery. The film concludes with a scene showing Jackson's body being returned to Lexington, Virginia, accompanied by VMI Cadets and covered by the new confederate national flag, just recently adopted, followed by text explaining that shortly thereafter, emboldened by their victory at Chancellorsville, Lee decided to take the Army of Northern Virginia and march on an invasion of the north, through Pennsylvania - a journey which would culminate with the Battle of Gettysburg. [Director: Ron Maxwell (as Ronald F. Maxwell)] [Jeff Shaara (book) (as Jeffrey M. Shaara)] [211 min, 2.35 : 1, Drama l History l War, USA]

- Film prati događaje neposredno uoči prvih godina Američkog građanskog rata i tokom njega, kao i ličnost i život Tomasa Džeksona (S. Lang), briljantnog i ekscentričnog generala konfederacije, od početka građanskog rata pa sve do njegove nesrećne pogibije. Takođe se prati i Džošua Lorens Čemberlen (J. Daniels), profesor sa koledža koji postaje drugi čovek u lancu komande pešadijske jedinice. Film veoma dobro opisuje prve direktne sukobe pešadije u građanskom ratu. Američki Sever i Jug nalaze se na korak do Građanskog rata. General Robert E. Li (R. Duvall) pred najtežom je odlukom u životu, jer je razapet između lojalnosti prema državi koju voli i svog južnjačkog porekla. I dok njegovi sunarodnjaci besne na Sever uništavajući zastave Unije, stanovništvo se iz severnog dela zemlje takođe priprema za krvavi obračun... Među njima je i ugledni univerzitetski profesor Džošua Lorens Čemberlen koji karijeru na koledžu menja onom vojničkom. Jednako častan i odan domovini je i njegov protivnik na strani Konfederacije Tomas "Stonvol" Džekson. Opraštajući se od žena koje ostavljaju iza sebe Fani Čemberlen (M. Sorvino) i En Džekson (K. Rocha), potporučnik Čemberlen i general-pukovnik Džekson odlaze u nepredvidivi rat u kome će odigrati značajnu ulogu... Deset godina nakon što je režirao jedan od najboljih filmova na temu Američkog građanskog rata "Getizburg", američki reditelj i dokumentarista Ronald F. Maksvel predstavio se novim delom planirane trilogije o najtežem sukobu na američkom tlu u protekla dva veka, istorijskom ratnom dramom "Bogovi i generali" za koju se pripremao nekoliko godina. Baš kao i u slučaju "Getizburga" ekranizovao je jednu od knjiga iz literarne ostavštine porodice Šara. I dok je u prvom slučaju prilagodio Pulicerovom nagradom ovenčanu knjigu "The Killer Angels" Majkla Šara, ovoga puta je na veliki ekran preneo roman njegovog sina Džefa Šara "Gods and Generals". Roman je objavljen 1996. godine, a prati događaje neposredno uoči prvih godina Američkog građanskog rata (1861.-1865.) i tokom njega. Opisujući gotovo sve svoje protagoniste kao časne i predane vojnike nezavisno na kojoj se strani borili, Maksvel je ostvario film koji će se najviše pamtiti po briljantno prikazanim bitkama i besprekornoj rekonstrukciji vremena o kome govori. Pesma iz filma "Cross the Green Mountain" koju je komponovao slavni Bob Dilan nominovana je za Zlatni satelit, a film je snimljen na lokacijama u Merilendu, Virdžiniji i Zapadnoj Virdžiniji pri čemu deo i na imanju glumca Roberta Divala. Kao svoj novi projekat reditelj Ronald F. Maksvel najavljuje ekranizaciju romana "The Last Full Measure" u kome Džef Šara takođe tematizuje Američki građanski rat čime bi se zaokružila planirana trilogija.  

SUROVA ZEMLJA [aka KAMENA PUSTINJA]

Hard Ground (2003)

[Burt Reynolds ... John 'Chill' McKay, Bruce Dern ... Sheriff Hutch Hutchinson, Amy Jo Johnson ... Elizabeth Kennedy, Seth Peterson ... Joshua, David Figlioli ... Billy Bucklin, Martin Kove ... Floyd, Larry Hankin ... Toothless, Michael Shamus Wiles ... Mundo, Bill Henderson ... Junior Gunn, Sergio Calderón ... General Jesus Navarro (as Sergio Calderon), Randy Stripling ... McMordy,

David Atkinson ... Deputy Dunlap, Edward Faulkner ... Warden, David S. Cass Sr. ... Pike (as David Cass Sr.), Frank Sharp ... Tall Man]

Billy Bucklin escapes while being transported to Yuma prison and plans to form an army of desperadoes to control the Mexican border. To finance his band, he robs a stagecoach, kidnaps a beautiful woman to be sold into prostitution, and steals an army payroll wagon. An aging lawman persuades the governor to parole his brother-in-law, now serving a 20-year prison term for murder, to assist him and his green deputy to destroy the marauders. [Director: Frank Q. Dobbs] [93 min, Western, USA]

- Kako bi se iskupio, lovac na glave i begunac iz zatvora, kreće u lov na opakog bandita. Pogrešno optuženi lovac na glave beži iz zatvora zajedno sa opakim banditom i ubicom. Nakon bega u trag mu ponovo ulazi šerif koji ga je uhvatio i nudi mu mogućnost iskupljenja ukoliko mu pomogne da uhvati ubicu sa kojim je pobegao. Njihovoj potrazi se pridružuje i mlada devojka koja želi da se osveti ubici za ubistvo svojih roditelja. Lovac na glave Džon Mek Kej (B. Reynolds) nepravedno je osuđen na doživotnu robiju, ali uspe da pobegne iz zatvora, zajedno sa nasilnim ubicom Bilijem Baklinom (D. Figlioli). Na slobodi Baklin i njegova banda kreću prema Meksiku da bi se spojili sa grupom revolucionara, a usput pljačkaju i ubijaju nedužne ljude duž čitave Arizone. Šerif Hač Hačinson (B. Dern), koji je uhvatio Džona, ponovo ga pronalazi i traži da mu pomogne u hvatanju Baklina i njegove bande. Zauzvrat mu nudi pomilovanje. Džon pristaje da sa čovekom, koji ga poslao u zatvor, lovi čoveka koji mu je pomogao da pobegne iz zatvora. Dodatni razlog za to predstavlja i odlučna Elizabet Kenedi (A.J. Johnson), koji traži da ide sa njima da bi se osvetila Baklinu za ubistvo roditelja...

DUG POVRATAK KUĆI

Long Ride Home, The (2003)                                

[Randy Travis ... Jack Fowler / Jack Cole, Eric Roberts ... Sheriff Hank Bowman, Ernest Borgnine ... Lucas Moat, Vaughn Taylor ... Laura Fowler, Paul Tinder ... Deputy Hart, Alec Medlock ... Daniel Fowler, Steve Nave ... Caleb Moat, Jeff McGrail ... Kyle Moat, Garry Marshall ... Arthur, Michele Dalcin ... Miriam, Stella Stevens ... Fiona Champyon, Rance Howard ... Old Man, Jerry Doyle ... Sheriff, Jeff Dolan ... Deputy, Sam Dolan ... Billy]

- A man fights the law and the lawless in order to reunite with his wife and son in the 1860s west. [Director: Robert Marcarelli (as Rob Marcarelli)] [87 min, 1.85 : 1, Western, USA]

- Akcija, osveta i ubistvo u romantičnoj misteriji Divljeg Zapada tokom 19. veka. Čovek (R. Travis) se bori protiv zakona i bezakonja kako bi se ponovo ujedinio sa svojom suprugom (V. Taylor) i sinom (A. Medlock) na Divljem Zapadu 1860-ih godina.