hsilberstein-1 Reviews

The Last Trapper (2004)

Changes and Peril

[10 November 2008]

I lately bought the DVD - the landscape is astoundingly filmed, the music is a little similar to the movie of JEREMIAH JOHNSON (the first lines of the music sound like stolen) but the behavior of Norman is sure sometimes very strange and "more than a little stupid" as to say for someone who spent a lifetime in the wild of Yukon: sledging over a lake that just has been frozen (!), pushing his sled up a steep hill..., sledging a crevice in deep snow..., trying to shoot an elk and not hitting it..., building a nest that Nebaska is trying to climb up and brakes down.... and most disturbing not listening to his fine subtle Nebaska Mary Loo....Anyway - Vanier has done a good job: he shows a periled area in the North which is vanishing not only by the loggers as well of climate change!

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

Bronson fascinates

[10/10 · 24 October 2008]

...I have run the movie (DVD)tens of times and the Bronson face is astoundingly. Besides that I have done some closer looks to the surroundings concerning goofs...I often wonder why f. e. the windmill at Cattle Corner stops when Harmonica starts to walk away after the shooting? Or what kind of wagon traces are seen behind the three dusters and their horses waiting for Bronson - looks like tractor-traces? A lot more of the maybe traces of cars or tractors are seen in the scene when Frank is arriving on the set of the crime with the train standing still and the dead bodies lies around on the ground? Also a strange trace of cars or tractors is seen when Morton looks out of the window after he has been looking on the painted impression of the sea ....

Besides - the movie is still after 40 years a monument in film history.

I have seen the movie on screen more than 10 times and as DVD as said tens of times - and every time there is something new to discover.