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The James Stewart Collection

Advantages: He presents a man of quiet sincerity
Disadvantages: He plays himself in all roles

This collection featuring the actor James Stewart showcases all that is sincere in his body of work. Vertigo ( an alfred hitchcock vehicle) is a money that signposts the maincharacters inadequecies but it gets turned around to his advantage. James Stewart played great men such as Glen Miller in the Glen Miller Story or as flyer in the Spirit in St. Louis. He was an accredited pilot who signed up for world war 2. His forays into the classic western ...

vancouver12 07.05.2007 · Read full review
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Review of James Stewart Collection (Box Set) (DVD)

Ultimate Cult Movie

Advantages: One of a kind. Weird and Surrealist. Undergound
Disadvantages: Graphic sexual violence. Animal cruelty. Confusing plot.

El Topo is a psychedelic, surrealist, muti-leveled, psuedo western. It was filmed in the late sixties by Chilean maverick Alejendro Jodorowsky who is notorious for never getting films made. If you are a fan of weird and wonderful cult cinema then hold your breath because this film is for you! Fistful of dollars this is not! I first heard about El Topo in the eighties, John Lennon and Dennis Hopper claimed it was their favorite film. It earned this ...
...film! After some initial weirdness El Topo is sent to kill four masters to prove his worth. One master is an armless man with a legless man on his back, another master is kind of like jesus and lives in a hut. There is plenty of bloody gunfight action inbetween theological discussions (the effects were done by the crew who did the shootout at the end of 'The Wildbunch'). Towards the end it starts to turn into a bizzare version of Tod Browning's Freaks. ...

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Review of El Topo (DVD)

You're Burnin' Daylight!

Advantages: Excellent story, fantastic cast
Disadvantages: for a western... none!

...I watched a lot of the Western Genre of films. They are my Mother's favorites, so of course she introduced them to me. I can still remember watching this film for the first time and absolutely loving it. As a kid I thought it was really cool to see a film where a lot of the characters were just about the same age as me, and they were doing things that adults thought they couldn't. Not only were they taking on adult roles, but they were successful ...
...evening. I showed him the section in my DVD case that had movies he was allowed to see, and he sat quietly on the floor looking through titles. Finally he said, "Can we watch this one?" In his hand was my copy of John Wayne and the Cowboys. It'd been ages since I'd seen the film, and truthfully I'd forgotten how much I really enjoyed it. I've also created another fan, because my nephew loved it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...

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Review of The Cowboys (DVD)

Some say he's dead...some say he never will be

Advantages: Great acting, scenery
Disadvantages: None I can think of

...shift boat. The man is Jeremiah Johnson (played b Robert Redford) He is an ex-soldier, he has arrived in Utah to fulfil his ambition of becoming a mountain man. Jeremiah asks the local shop owner where he can go to hunt. The man gives him directions and Jeremiah sets off into the snowy mountains. Jeremiah comes across an old man who hunts bears. He teaches Jeremiah new skills. He tells Jeremiah that the territory he is heading for is indian territory. ...
...The Crows, are killers. Jeremiah again sets off. Along his route he survives treacherous weather and the fear of the indians. He comes across a house where he finds a hysterical woman. Her husband and son have been killed and scalped by the Crows. Jeremiah helps the woman bury her family. He goes into her house to find a small boy cowering in the corner. The woman insists that Jeremiah take the boy with him on his travels. The boy does not speak ...

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Review of Jeremiah Johnson (DVD)

Dunbar, not Dumb Bear!

Advantages: Fantastic visuals, Costner
Disadvantages: Can draw it out too long in places

...most powerful films to date, Dances With Wolves is a thoughtful and emotional tale that requires a bit of concentration. Set in the aftermath of the Civil War, it features KC as a war hero who is relocated to a post near a tribe of Sioux Indians. The initial grasp of the film makes you think it's going to be one with emphasis on the conflict involving the Sioux, and for the first part of the film, this is indeed how it is shown, particularly as ...
...Mary McDonnell as a love interest for Dunbar. Dances With Wolves is available from amazon.co.uk for £6.98. It's a film I recommend watching, but you need to focus and concentrate. It's not the sort of film you can have on in the background and completely understand. Recommended. ...

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Review of Dances With Wolves (DVD)