Western Classics Revival Surge

Restorations, streaming returns, repertory screenings, broadcasts, anniversary retrospectives, museums, festivals, physical-media releases, convention reunions, and criticism continue to revive classic, revisionist, international, and hybrid Westerns. Recent attention includes Cat Ballou, The Searchers, Jane Got a Gun, Spaghetti Western history, and Almería’s Eli Wallach and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly anniversary programming; Lucky expands on Netflix October 9 and High Plains Drifter leaves U.S. Netflix October 1.