by Travis Mills | Aug 19, 2019 | 12 Westerns in 12 Months
Each Monday, I share reviews of Westerns I’m studying to prepare for making 12 Westerns in 12 Months during 2020. I am watching these films not from an audience perspective but as a filmmaker, as a student of the genre. Week Sixteen: The Wild Bunch &...
by Travis Mills | Jul 22, 2017 | Blood Country
I had some fun recently on a long drive fantasizing about what our upcoming release Blood Country would look like if it was a 1950s Western film instead of a modern day movie. Of course, I love the classics of this genre, especially the ones directed by John Ford,...
by Travis Mills | May 27, 2015 | 12 Westerns in 12 Months
As a precursor to our film project, 12 Western Feature-Length Films in 12 Months, which Running Wild Films and 5J Media will start producing in 2016, director Travis Mills shares his thoughts on films from the genre as he studies Westerns in preparation for our own....
by Travis Mills | Sep 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
In honor of the cowboy movie we’re shooting this weekend, Comanche, and my continued debates with actor Rob Edwards about what a good Western is (he’s a big fan of Gunsmoke), I’ll written up a list of the Westerns I’m most fond of. Now first...
