Films like The Ballad of Cable Hogue.

The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) reads as Warm, measured, measured western / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Capricious Summer (1968) poster
1. Capricious Summer1968

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Happy Go Lucky (1972) poster
2. Happy Go Lucky1972

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Flooded Land (1962) poster
3. The Flooded Land1962

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Bhuvan Shome (1969) poster
4. Bhuvan Shome1969

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Wives (1975) poster
5. Wives1975

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Age of Consent (1969) poster
6. Age of Consent1969

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird (1970) poster
7. Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird1970

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Larks on a String (1969) poster
8. Larks on a String1969

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Football of the Good Old Days (1973) poster
9. Football of the Good Old Days1973

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Bed and Board (1970) poster
10. Bed and Board1970

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Funeral (1984) poster
11. The Funeral1984

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Nuts in May (1976) poster
12. Nuts in May1976

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

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