“Midnight Cowboy,” somewhat surprisingly, won the Academy Award for best picture in 1969, an acknowledgment of director John Schlesinger’s groundbreaking film that the documentary “Desperate Souls, ...

There's a reason why Western films are treasured across the globe. They depict a not-so-far-flung past full of adventure, lawlessness, violence, and intrigue. They demarcate archetypes of good and ...