Films @ Dave’s Info Cafe

One of my favourite film directors is Akira Kurosawa. Sadly, he is no longer with us but he has left a fantastic legacy of fine films which have had so much influence in the film world. Most people will know of him as the maker of “The Seven Samurai” – a film that told the [...]

I am not a great fan of film remakes as they rarely live up to the original but when I heard that George Romero’s cult classic “Zombies – Dawn of the Dead” (or better, Zombies at Woolworth’s) was to be remade then my ears pricked up a little. I first tried to see the original [...]

Isn’t it wonderful how the mind works? No matter what pictures are put in front of our eyes our mind tries to make sense of it. It took a Russian called Kuleshev near the turn of the 20th century to bring it to the world’s attention and had a profound effect on film art and [...]

Many critics place Citizen Kane at the top of their list of best films of all time. I think it would be best described as the most influential film of all time. Personally, I have no great love for the film. I find it hard to have empathy for the central characters and it leaves [...]