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Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 4. March 19 1979
VUWSA Films
VUWSA Films
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Off the Edge
Imagine crossing the Southern Alps with a hang-glider and skis strapped to your feet. Imagine making a film of it. Imagine John Hanlon making a song about it "Off the Edge" does all this with style, and what it lacks in development it certainly compensates for with visual splendour. It's a question of how much snow you can really take. A prize-winning semi-New Zealand film.
The Magnificent Seven
This is real Hollywood at its best. "The Magnificent Seven" is a western remake of Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai", a powerful story of conflict between a samurai band and the villagers they purport to protect. The Japanese film is already close to a western in all its chief features; John Sr urges' Hollywood version forgoes some of the depth of theme but lacks nothing of the action, suspense and compelling attraction of its lead characters. Quite simply one of the best westerns around, from the maker of "Gunfight at Ok Corral", "The Great Escape" and "Ice Station Zebra". Starring Yul Brynner Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen.
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