AMERICAN DREAMERS.("Open Range"; "Thirteen")(Movie Review)

"Open Range," the new Western directed by Kevin Costner, was shot in the Canadian Rockies in high, green valleys, a darkly beautiful landscape that lies across the wide screen like velvet. The movie, as if becalmed by the soundless open spaces, takes its time, tarrying over what one person thinks of another, relishing a turn of phrase or the importance of weather--I can't recall another Western in which rain plays so large a role. In the current movie climate of hyperkinetic spectacle, the leisureliness of "Open Range" is a form of grace. Soothed, one even welcomes the borrowings from such classics as "My Darling Clementine" and "High Noon." The Western, a genre whose ...