THEME EXPLORATION

frontier settlement and civilization

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS

Over Silent Paths
1910 · D.W. Griffith

The Last Outlaw
1919 · John Ford

Woman Obsessed
1959 · Henry Hathaway

Apocalypse Now
1979 · Francis Ford Coppola

Once Upon a Time in the West
1968 · Sergio Leone

L'Atalante
1934 · Jean Vigo

The Time of the Wolf
2003 · Michael Haneke

King Kong vs. Godzilla
1962 · Ishirō Honda

Dersu Uzala
1975 · —

Summer Hours
2008 · Olivier Assayas

Tomb Raider
2018 · Roar Uthaug

48) Special award of Feast of Cinema for Abbas Kiarostami at the 2nd Feast of Cinema, Tehran

48) Special award of Feast of Cinema for Abbas Kiarostami at the 2nd Feast of Cinema, Tehran
1997 · Abbas Kiarostami

DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS

Francis Ford Coppola United States

His iconic Westerns like 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' and 'My Darling Clementine' explore the tension between frontier lawlessness and the establishment of civilization.

Damien Leone Italy

His operatic Spaghetti Westerns deconstruct the frontier myth while examining how civilization encroaches upon and transforms the wild West.