SBS World Motion pictures Showcase: Westerns | Film Information

5 Fingers for Marseilles

Monday 3 October, 9:30pm on SBS World Motion pictures / Streaming after at SBS On Demand

MA15+
South Africa, USA, 2018
Style: Drama, Thriller, Western
Language: English, Afrikaans
Director: Michael Matthews
Starring: Vuyo Dabula, Zethu Dlomo, Hamilton Dhlamini, Rapulana Seiphemo, Mduduzi Mabaso
What’s it about?
Utilizing the western style as its foundation, it is a movie a couple of South African shanty city and 5 mates who swear to guard it from corrupt police and legal gangs. The story follows Tau (Dabula), who runs away from the issues going through the city and returns years later to learn the way his absence has modified the city and the those who he used to know.

 

The Rider

Tuesday 4 October, 9:40pm on SBS World Motion pictures / Now streaming at SBS On Demand

M, AD
USA, 2018
Style: Drama
Language: English
Director: Chloé Zhao
Starring: Brady Jandreau, Tim Jandreau, Lilly Jandreau, Cat Clifford, Terri Daybreak Pourier
What’s it about?
As soon as a rising star of the rodeo circuit, and a gifted horse coach, younger cowboy Brady (Brady Jandreau) is warned that his using days are over after a horse crushed his cranium at a rodeo. In an try to regain management of his personal destiny, Brady undertakes a seek for a brand new identification and what it means to be a person within the heartland of the USA. The acclaimed second function from Oscar-winning Nomadland director Chloé Zhao, which equally makes use of non-professional actors and blurs the road between documentary and fiction.

 

Gone Are the Days

Wednesday 5 October, 9:35pm on SBS World Motion pictures / Now streaming at SBS On Demand

M, AD, CC
USA, 2018
Style: Western
Language: English
Director: Mark Landre Gould
Starring: Lance Henriksen, Tom Berenger, Danny Trejo, Lulu Wilson, Jamie McShane
What’s it about?
The story of infamous outlaw Taylon Flynn (Henriksen), a person hell-bent on exiting this life in a blaze of glory. His plans go awry upon the invention of the sordid life his estranged daughter is compelled to reside. To avoid wasting her, he should summon the interior demons he purged way back, and finds that redemption is a tough street to journey.

 

Dances with Wolves

Friday 7 October, 9:30pm on SBS World Motion pictures / Streaming after at SBS On Demand

M
UK, USA, 1990
Style: Journey, Drama, Western
Language: English
Director: Kevin Costner
Starring: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant
What’s it about?
Wounded Civil Conflict soldier, John Dunbar (Costner) tries to commit suicide—and turns into a hero as an alternative. As a reward, he is assigned to his dream submit, a distant junction on the Western frontier, and shortly makes unlikely mates with the native Sioux tribe. Considered one of solely three westerns to win the Academy Award for Greatest Image (together with 1931’s Cimarron and 1992’s Unforgiven).

Margaret & David review Dances With Wolves on The Movie Show – 4.5 and 5 stars (Episode 01, 1991)

 

Marlina the Assassin in 4 Acts

Monday 10 October, 9:30pm on SBS World Motion pictures / Streaming after at SBS On Demand

MA15+
Indonesia, 2017
Style: Thriller, Drama, Western
Language: Indonesian
Director: Mouly Surya
Starring: Marsha Timothy, Yoga Pratama, Dea Panendra, Egy Fedly
What’s it about?
Within the abandoned hills of an Indonesian island, Marlina (Timothy), a younger widow, is attacked, raped and robbed for her cattle. To defend herself, she kills a number of males of the gang. Searching for justice, she goes on a journey for empowerment and redemption. However the street is lengthy, particularly when the ghost of her headless sufferer begins to hang-out her. Described by Selection’s Maggie Lee as a “satay western”, this feminist spin on the style is one among solely 4 Indonesian movies ever to make the official choice on the Cannes Movie Pageant.

 

Jane Obtained a Gun

Tuesday 11 October, 9:30pm on SBS World Motion pictures / Now streaming at SBS On Demand

MA15+, AD
USA, 2015
Style: Motion, Drama, Western
Language: English
Director: Gavin O’Connor
Starring: Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton, Ewan McGregor, Noah Emmerich, Nash Edgerton
What’s it about?
After her outlaw husband returns house shot with eight bullets and barely alive, Jane (Portman) reluctantly reaches out to an ex-lover who she hasn’t seen in over ten years to assist her defend her farm when the time comes that her husband’s gang ultimately tracks him down to complete the job. Directed by Gavin O’Connor (Warrior) and shot by Australia’s Mandy Walker (Elvis, Tracks).

 

By no means Develop Previous

Wednesday 12 October, 9:35pm on SBS World Motion pictures / Streaming after at SBS On Demand

MA15+
Eire, 2019
Style: Western
Language: English
Director: Ivan Kavanagh
Starring: Emile Hirsch, John Cusack, Deborah Francois, Danny Webb, Tim Ahern
What’s it about?
A once-peaceful frontier city turns into a den of vice after vicious outlaw Dutch Albert (Cusack) and his gang arrive and start gunning down their opposition. Undertaker Patrick Tate (Hirsch) should now select between the blood cash he makes burying the murderers’ victims and the threats he and his household face because the demise toll continues to rise.