Films @ Dave’s Info Cafe

The western as a genre was dead until 1989 but was revived by, of all things, a made for TV mini series directed by an Englishman. That series was Lonesome Dove, a four part drama, that rekindled an American love for the western. It was made for the small screen but it had epic ambitions [...]

As you can see from the first part of this I am a fan of the old style epics which are usually historical stories with universal themes involving large scale conflict, and where no expense is spared, either on the costumes, settings or numbers of extras to fill the screen. However, apart from Gladiator and [...]

I was watching “Open Range” the other night on television and that got me pondering about the career of Kevin Costner as actor, producer and director. He gave quite a mature performance as Charley Waite the free grazer but he still couldn’t hold a candle to that old scene stealer Robert Duvall. Of course, Costner [...]