Hud (1963)

My first paul newman movie on the big screen since Cars.. Extremely clever, stylish, and bleak, everything i want out of a revisionist western. A stretch, but the closest i’ve seen an American film replicate Ozu’s simple profundity through an ensemble. Texas Story? Been on…

Karsten

If you're a young Paul Newman, with all the world-beating beauty and charisma that goes along with it, you have to fight hard against an audience's natural sympathies to be an antihero. And as Hud, Newman fights hard indeed. You keep searching for redeemable aspects to this…

Scott Tobias

Insanely bleak, world-weary neo-western about the passing of an infected torch from the principled ranchers who in their old age have grown as hard as the land they work and the cold-blooded youth they've helped shape that believe in nothing but individual impulse and…

Josh Lewis

No Country for Old Men '63? This was way darker and carried a far more conservative streak than I was expecting. At one point in HUD I'm fairly certain that generational malaise is made analogous to contagious disease in livestock. The inflicted cattle are rounded up in a…

laird

An early revisionist Western, “Hud” is as equally populated by bulldozers as by cattle, by Cadillacs as it is by horses. The myths of the American expansionist past are there, but caged behind barbed wire.  “Hud” is a wrenching tragedy — showing the slow, self-actualised…

theriverjordan

GLEN POWELL is a movie star in the Holden/Michum/ Newman mold. Now he needs to make his "Hud."

Paul Schrader

“you live just for yourself.” Some films are just too big to write about. I mean where would I even start? With father and son? Definitely. Because that’s the real divide. The father (Melvin Douglas) stands for a moral code carved in stone – unflinching, almost airless,…

Tim Fehrenbach

I think it would be fun to be named Hud

brendan o'hare

Paul Newman and Patricia Neal are two of my favorite actors, and their characters in Hud-while on opposite ends of the moral spectrum-are showcases for their immense talent and charisma. Newman plays The Worst Person, also known as Hud Bannon. His father Homer, played by…

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