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...There's no fine tradition of rugby league films. This Sporting Life, the 1963 English production starring Richard Harris, is regarded as the only really good one. Now it has company. The Final Winter, made on a shoestring by a bunch of novices, including co-directors Jane Forrest and Brian Andrews, is a gem, a triumph for adherence to two axioms of football: keep it simple and get the little things right. Its backdrop is league in early-1980s Sydney, but after a burst of action in the first 10 minutes, it shines as a drama exploring the limits...
...script - his first - that is nostalgic yet so gritty you can almost feel the sting of a painkilling needle. He took the script to a friend, businessman Anthony Coffey, who with Nable and director Andrews formed The Three Scallywags, a production company that would turn Nable's words into Winter, which opens Sept. 6 in Australia and later in the year in New Zealand...
...almost up. Johns also has the film's funniest lines, in one scene telling his players in a half-time rant that two of their supposedly rugged team-mates had been off "giving each other a f___ing sponge bath." By bringing a bygone era to life, The Final Winter will touch a generation of sports fans for whom today's games just don't stack...
When Frank Lorenti of Minturn, a rustic little burg down the road from the villageopolis of Vail in the Colorado mountains, put barbed wire up to keep snowmobilers off his property last winter, the town council responded by outlawing the spiked fencing altogether. Police chief Lorenzo Martinez agreed. "Considering the damage it could do, people don't think barbed wire is appropriate," he reported. "There are a lot of other types of fences...
...idea of rail travel as part of a holiday experience in itself. Instead of touching down at clogged airports in the unkempt outskirts of a destination city, trains can deliver passengers right into the heart of Europe's urban centers. With seasonal direct routes to the Alps in winter and southern Europe's beaches in summer, it also hopes to wean Britons off their addiction to low-cost airlines like Ryanair and EasyJet...