![]() ![]() Scruggs then refused, causing Joe to stand up with a pistol and threaten to shoot Scruggs. Scruggs attempted to leave, but Joe insisted, "You've seen 'em, you play 'em". He later headed into the town of Frenchman's Gulch, Arizona to gamble, but, when he sat at a table with Surly Joe to pick up a hand of cards, he found that he had been dealt the unlucky "Dead Man's Hand". In 1873, he entered a small, remote cantina in Mexican Hat, Utah (next to Monument Valley) and killed five men in rapid succession after he angered the patron Jasper Roberson and his drinking mates and shot the bartender Oscar Ortega after he attempted to reach for his gun. By 1873, he was wanted for several shooting incidents, most of which occurred when other men cheated at poker and were challenged and killed in duels by the singing gunslinger. Despite his pleasant demeanor and his habit of singing songs with his guitar while riding his horse Dan, he was feared for his skill at drawing his six-shooter sidearm quickly and shooting it accurately. He was famous as a singing gunslinger who was feared for his incredible speed and accuracy, but he was outdrawn and killed in a duel with " The Kid" in Frenchman's Gulch in 1873.īuster Scruggs was born in Reata Pass, San Saba County, Texas, and he was nicknamed "the San Saba Songbird" for his musical talent. We’ll get reactions out of this one very soon, and I’ll be eager to see how the Venice crowd reacts versus the audience at New York Film Festival.Buster Scruggs (1819-1873), nicknamed "the San Saba Songbird", was an American gambler, musician, and outlaw from Reata Pass, San Saba County, Texas. Exquisitely shot by Bruno Delbonnel and intricately designed by Jess Gonchor (with art department contributing stunning colour plate intertitles that introduce each sequence), this is one for true connoisseurs. Finally, ghostly laughs haunt The Mortal Remains as Tyne Daly rains judgment upon a motley crew of strangers undertaking a final carriage ride. Tom Waits mines a rich seam of humour in All Gold Canyon, while Zoe Kazan finds an unexpected promise of love, along with a dose of life’s cruel irony, on a wagon train across the prairies in The Gal Who Got Rattled. Lugubrious dark humour pervades the Liam Neeson starrer Meal Ticket, a gothic tale about two weary travelling performers. And just a little bit more for good measure. In Near Algodones, James Franco’s wannabe bank robber gets his due and then some. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs finds Tim Blake Nelson playing a sharp-shooting songster. Every delectable chapter presents a different story from the wild frontier, with tone and style perfectly calibrated for each tale. ![]() As storytelling goes, this is wildly idiosyncratic, undeniably hilarious and often touchingly melancholic – a cinema-brio study of the American West. ![]() If you want to fathom the bottomless well that is the Coens’ imagination, look no further. Meanwhile, BFI London Film Festival’s synopsis provides details on each of the shorts: The anthology consists of six shorts, and now on the eve of the film’s world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, we have details on the six shorts, what they’re called, and who stars in them: Then the Coen Brothers said, “Nah, we’re the Coens and we’ll do what we want,” and they turned it in an anthology movie that’s over two hours. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs was originally supposed to be a 6-part TV series for Netflix. ![]()
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