With No Name: Last News

Whether it’s the Man With No Name, the Outlaw Josie Wales, or the spectral hero from “High Plains Drifter,” Clint Eastwood has played countless iconic roles in the Western genre. The revisionist take on the genre fell out of favor with studios and audiences in the ’80s after Dirty Harry Callahan proved a steadier source of revenue.

Guy Lodge Film Critic There’s a parched austerity to the landscape of the Australian outback, along with an embedded history of conflict between Indigenous and invading occupants, that makes it irresistibly well-suited to screen westerns. But there’s a loneliness to it, too, a sense that its quiet vastness could swallow you whole and without trace, that lends itself as easily to moody, smoky mystery. Aboriginal filmmaker Ivan Sen has twice before dabbled in the harsh, dry space where those genre possibilities overlap, in his features “Goldstone” and “Mystery Road.” In his latest, most accomplished film “Limbo,” he once more surveys the region with a critical eye, finding a history of racial injustice in its sharp cracks and long shadows. But the genre styling this time has been pushed all the way to stark, monochromatic stylization. This is outback noir — oblique, secretive and as hard-boiled as the ground is hard-baked — and Sen wears it well.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: The classic spaghetti western that helped launch Clint Eastwood’s career looks to be getting the TV treatment as We are hearing Mark Gordon Pictures is developing A Fistful of DollarsTV series. The company has acquired the rights to the film as well as the Akira Kurosawa’s 1961 samurai epic, Yojimbo, which the Eastwood film was based on.