Coens stake their claim to the Western in ‘Buster Scruggs’
NEW YORK — No location is more central to the iconography of the Western than Monument Valley. Its majestic sandstone buttes, a revolving backdrop for John Ford, have been the setting for countless stagecoach chases and John Wayne passages. And thanks to the Coen brothers’ “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” this hallowed Colorado ground is