Silverado (1985). Many thought this might just be the film that started a renaissance of Western movies. It has a great cast (including Kevin Cline, Jeff Goldblum, Scott Glenn, Danny Glover, Linda Hunt, and Kevin Costner) and a great villain in Brian Dennehy. It was directed by Lawrence Kasdan and co-written by Kasdan and his brother Mark, following his co-writing work on three little films called The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Return of the Jedi. It was everything a Western, and a movie in general, is supposed to be. Even this wasn’t enough to spark a Western resurgence.