Originally Posted by
aberdien
Essential "Classic" Westerns:
The Searchers
High Noon
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
My Darling Clementine
Shane
The Ox-Bow Incident
Red River
Yojimbo
Revisionist and/or psychedelic weirdo westerns:
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Johnny Guitar
The Wild Bunch
El Topo
Dead Man
Modern Westerns/Things I Call Westerns:
True Grit (the new one obviously)
No Country for Old Men
The Assassination of Jesse James
There Will Be Blood
Unforgiven
Rango
Paris, Texas
Logan
My personal top 5:
1. True Grit (2010)
2. The Searchers
3. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
4. No Country for Old Men
5. Dead Man