What if Brian De Palma actually has more in common with David Lynch than he does with Hitchcock?
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Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood 2019
Saddest happy ending in the world. Makes you wish life could be more like the movies.
Still not sold on the violence after umpteen viewings. Feels disproportionate and crass in an otherwise touching and wistful movie.
The final needle drop is “Miss Lily Langtree” from The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean - a movie where Paul Newman appoints himself the judge of a small western town and proceeds to enact his own form of frontier justice.
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The Hockey Champ 1939
This story of one duck’s efforts to intimidate his nephews is an important cultural artifact.
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The French Connection 1971
This movie spits nails and craps thunder and it always will.
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The Untouchables 1987
A movie that is near and dear to my heart. Belongs to a time when prestige films were exciting and could accommodate the idiosyncrasies of their makers.
It’s a Prohibition-era gangster film with horror set-pieces and a 15 minute Western sequence as its centrepiece.
Mamet’s script rips.
Robert De Niro as Al Capone with a baseball bat.
Sean Connery, as Malone on the brink of death - spluttering, “What are you prepared to do?”
Young, dewy-eyed Kevin Costner and Andy Garcia becoming stars before our eyes.
One of De Palma’s great mainstream triumphs.
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