MM Film Blog

Director Bill Paxton pulls out all the stops in this period golf drama, based on the true story of the 1913 U.S. Open, a battle between 20-year old amateur Francis Ouimet and 1900 U.S. Open Champion, Englishman Harry Vardon. This is a wonderful film for golf enthusiasts, but you don't have to love golf to love the film.

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Yes, camels really do weep. I wouldn't have believed it either. Set in Mongolia's Gobi region, the film portrays a group of nomadic camel herders attempting to reunite a rare white Bactrian camel calf with its mother, after being rejected by the mother due to a difficult delivery.

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First, I have to admit that I am quite partial to British films. And among those, anything adapted from a Jane Austen novel is bound to be high on the list. And of those, Pride and Prejudice is among the best of the best. This 1995 television version directed by Simon Langton (of Upstairs, Downstairs fame) is first rate -- it is probably the best of all of the many versions of what is likely Austen's most popular novel.

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Don't let the title fool you -- the only part of writer/director John Gatin's film inspired by a true story is the story of the horse. Everything about the characters is pure fiction -- but it is fiction at its best. Quite an accomplishment for first-time director Gatin.

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