Favourite Films

[Graham Breeze]

You mean you haven't got Once upon a time in the West on DVD?

Beautifully made with Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone at the top of their game. If you like westerns then I would recommend it. It's on the long side, so I watch it in two or three instalments. If you don't like Henry Fonda or Charles Bronson you can always wonder at the size of Claudia Cardinale's eyes, (Yes I did say 'eyes'), and it even features railways.

Obviously not - but then I have seen it a few times. Obviously.

And without being too much of an art-house film buff and without digressing into where the authorship of a film lies, whilst Leone undoubtedly re-energised the western genre and his films display good old shoot
'em ups in a flamboyant way, they don't raise the deeper issues that are at the core of films like Red River,The Searchers or The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

And, of course, Pat Garrett and Bill The Kid

And if I get the hots for Claudia Cardinale I can watch my DVD of Luchino Visconti's Il Gattopardo (The Leopard to you).