The Open Championship The Official Film 1977

Advantages: Modern film techniques help bring added realism.
Disadvantages: No big cowboys and Indian battles.

...--- OVERVIEW --- Cowboy/Western films have been especially thin on the ground since the golden era of spaghetti westerns. Kevin Costner has attempted to bring the genre into the 21st century by using modern cinematography with the tried and tested methods of cowboy films everybody likes. Not too epic in its outlook it tells a probably common tale of how America's west grew up. --- SYNOPSIS --- Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall play two cattle drivers (along with their two helpers) who use open land to graze there herd. After pleasantly doing this for some time, they come to a town (with a particularly bad landowner, Michael Gambon) which doesn't want them using 'their' land for grazing. Costner and Duvall disagree about this and a showdown ensues with the town’s bad-folk; Gambon and the corrupted Sheriff. Bad things are done... Read review

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Advantages: Wim Wenders, Bruno Ganz and Dennis Hopper
Disadvantages: None

...Wim Wenders' THE AMERICAN FRIEND was released in 1977, one year after the then relatively unknown German director had unleashed one of the world's greatest films, KINGS OF THE ROAD. With a masterpiece already under his belt after just four feature films, what could he do with Ripley's Game, a gripping Patricia Highsmith novel? In Hamburg, Germany, a picture framer, and art restorer, meets and, for professional reasons, shuns an American dealer of forged paintings. The picture framer has a rare blood disease, which can't be cured, and when the American dealer, a philosophical sociopath, finds out about it he spreads a false rumour that the picture framer is going to die. He then visits the picture framer in his little shop and offers him a way to leave some sort of legacy behind for his wife and child: to become a hitman... Read review

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Advantages: Entertaining, well acted, keeps your attention
Disadvantages: Could have been a bit longer

...For my birthday, I decided to eat out at my favourite Mexican restaurant and to go to the cinema to see two films. The first of these films was Wimbledon – the latest release from Working Title, who can always be relied upon to give you a good film. In fact, many of my favourite films are from Working Title – My Beautiful Laundrette, Wish You Were Here, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones’s Diary. Wimbledon is another really good film from them. Although you could accuse it of being formulaic and predictable, it’s also entertaining, highly enjoyable and a feel good movie. The film is set around the Wimbledon tennis championships where American star Lizzie Bradbury is expected to do very well. On the other hand, British player Peter Colt is 31 and is expected to be knocked out early on, in which is due... Read review

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