and if you haven't read the Lonesome Dove book by Larry McMurtry (and the others in the series Dead Man's Walk and Comanche Moon though I'm not keen on Streets of Laredo), I'd highly recommend it... the mini-series is very faithful, but the book is better!
The Searchers Little Big Man The Good The Bad & The Ugly Lonesome Dove McCabe and Mrs Miller Stagecoach Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (sorta)
Chronologically: My Darling Clementine The Searchers Rio Bravo The Magnificent Seven A Fistful Of Dollars For A Few Dollars More The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Once Upon A Time In The West The Wild Bunch High Plains Drifter The Outlaw Josey Wales The Long Riders Unforgiven That's 13, not 10, but those are my favorites. Special mention to Lonesome Dove, which is just as great as those films, but as a miniseries I place it in a slightly different category.
Barrymore Film Center For anyone in Bergen County, NJ The Searchers is playing on the big screen on March 18 at the Barrymore Film Center in Fort Lee, NJ Also on the same day in the afternoon, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Barrymore Film Center
For a Few Dollars More The Good the Bad & the Ugly Pale Rider Joe Kid Outlaw Josey Wales Death Rides a Horse Big Gundown
I have quite a few Westerns in my to see list. Just ten that come to mind that I like and could see watching again: The Cowboys Tombstone Unforgiven True Grit (2010) High Noon Once Upon a Time in the West Giant Butch and Sundance Junior Bonner Old Yeller
In no particular order - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Destry Rides Again The Professionals High Noon Once Upon a Time in the West True Grit (2010) The Magnificent Seven My Darling Clementine Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid The Treasure of Sierra Madre Appaloosa Not necessarily great cinema but big fun - Back to the Future Part III Silverado Bone Tomahawk
Just watched Firecreek and loved it. A slice of very small, and sad, town life. I preferred this to other revenge films, even Unforgiven. If you read into the film too, you know that the dumb as dirt young lady in it totally screwed the guy who tried to rape her earlier. I am really getting into Westerns. I think Westerns got better when they left the 30's and 40's which were mostly stuck in their flag waving tropes. I also had to get to the point where I realized that John Ford and John Wayne are not the end-all of Westerns, but also that they are usually a bad sign for enjoyment and a full message. I recently watched The Shootist and mostly hated it. I don't blame Don Siegel, a usually very good director, he was saddled with a film all too aware that it might be Wayne's last and most of the time is taken up in honoring his "heritage", and they forget any actual suspense/action until the very end.
Lonesome Dove Unforgiven Shootout at the OK Corral Silverado Red River Butch Cassidy How the West was Won Shane High Noon Blazing Saddles Stagecoach Hallelujah Trail The Assassination of Jesse James
Stagecoach The Searchers The Good, The Bad and the Ugly Once Upon a Time in the West The Outlaw Josie Wales The Last of the Mohicans Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Blazing Saddles The Wild Bunch Tombstone
01 The Good The Bad And The Ugly 02 Once Upon A Time In The West 03 The Wild Bunch 04 Unforgiven 05 The Outlaw Josey Wales 06 High Plains Drifter 07 Dead Man 08 A Fistful Of Dollars 09 For A Few Dollars More 10 High Noon
Ten more: Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here Red River The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Cowboy High Noon The Wild Bunch The Gunfighter The Assassination of Jesse James Ride Lonesome Pursued
In alphabetical order: Appaloosa Ballad of Buster Scruggs Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid Dances with Wolves Heaven's Gate Hostiles Jeremiah Johnson Last of the Mohicans Little Big Man The Revenant
One Eyed Jacks Little Big Man Unforgiven Lonesome Dove Hombre Mackenna's Gold (yeah, I liked it) True Grit - Bridges Haunted Gold Tonka - Sal Mineo/Disney The Hateful Eight
1. Heaven's Gate 2. Once Upon A Time in the West 3. For a Few Dollars More 4. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 5. The Great Silence 6. The Misfits 7. High Plains Drifter 8. The Shootist 9. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 10. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Didn't we just do this? The Good The Bad And The Ugly The Naked Spur The Wild Bunch Open Range Unforgiven Tombstone The Searchers The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance The Magnificent Seven Lonesome Dove Miniseries See you next time.
The Good the Bad and the Ugly Rio Bravo Pale Rider A fistful of dollars For a few dollars more The outlaw josey Wales Unforgiven The Treasure of the Sierra Madre True Grit Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Every few months. Another ten: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon Rio Bravo Magnificent Seven The Good, the Bad and the Ugly One-Eyed Jacks Pat Garret and Billy the Kid Hombre Broken Arrow Dances with Wolves Geronimo: An American Legend One more to come...