The Modern Western

I've watched two variants on the latter day western in the past few weeks. Neither is of hyper current vintage but they are both distinctly modern and in their differing ways elegiac. My preference is for the less considered of the two - I take All The Pretty  Horses over Brokeback Mountain.

All The Pretty Horses performs the very hard trick of doing justice to its literary source, the completely brilliant Cormac McCarthy novel, about which I've raved on here before. So now you know.