Sticking to the five main terrestrial channels in the interests of inclusivity, we've annoyed everyone by scrawling all over the Christmas telly guides, deciding which movies we'll be wheezing off the stuffing to this festive season. Pass the brandy, old chap...
Film: Dances With Wolves (1990)
Showing: Sat Dec 19, 4.30pm, BBC2
Why It's A Must-See: If ever a movie was doomed to failure on paper, it was this one. Clocking in at over three finger-wagging hours, it was heavily subtitled, rooted in an unfashionable period of history and helmed by a first-timer whose acting career had already showed signs of yo-yoing alarmingly.
And yet, somehow, Costner smashed it: Wolves’ expansive romance is shamelessly indulgent, yet just earthy enough to be utterly engrossing. The director was subsequently adopted as an honorary member of the Sioux nation, ferchrissakes.
Don’t Get Up For A Mince Pie...when Costner and his new-found buddies ride out on a horseback hunt among several hundred honking, stampeding, dust-kicking buffalo. A proper outdoorsy, traditional Western moment that neatly encapsulates the film’s sweeping themes of freedom, tension and violence.
Next: Blade Runner
Comments
sleepwalker
Dec 8th 2009, 12:52
Wasnt Sparrow's rum burning tantrum in the first one!
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sleepwalker
Dec 8th 2009, 12:54
Wasnt Sparrows rum burning tantrum in the first one!
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MarkPowell
Dec 8th 2009, 16:55
Quite right sleepwalker...good spot, dunno quite how I managed that one! Amended to what it was supposed to have been originally now, ta.
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hughjass1970
Dec 8th 2009, 22:04
Dances With Wolves - catch the James Cameron remake in theatres from 17th Dec!
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Ali1748
Dec 9th 2009, 1:32
Midnight Run is such a vastly underrated film.
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lpatterson
Dec 9th 2009, 10:51
This is a brilliant feature! Now I don't have to spend two hours with the frickin Radio Times.
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Hadouken76
Dec 9th 2009, 12:59
dick tracys 'The Blank' was basically a rip off of Rorschach
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KerrAvon
Dec 9th 2009, 15:15
No Scrooged, shocking.
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KerrAvon
Dec 9th 2009, 15:16
Or Bad Santa Christmas is ruined.
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badblokebob
Dec 11th 2009, 15:18
And there I was thinking Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was an adaptation of a book by this guy called Roald Dahl.
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