Shades of grey in the white hat/black hat era. Randolph Scott barely playing a hero. John Carroll playing more entitled than villainous. Andrew Duggan hits so many great notes as a spineless sheriff in the pocket of Carroll. I really enjoyed this.
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Ms .45 1981
Ferrara’s craftsmanship really shines in this film, which could’ve been handled with significantly less taste and polish; this includes a scene where a human hand is put through a meat grinder and fed to a dog. Asks some questions that don’t generally get brought up with this kind of material and certainly not at the time it was made. Zoe Lund is great in near silent performance and the early 80s NYC filming locations are perfection.
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 1999
The plot matters less than the vibe, which will definitely turn some folks off but it’s a ride I’m happy to go on. The blend of Japanese and European crime genre influences filtered through a similar lens as Jarmusch treated the western genre in Dead Man is a hoot. Whitaker sells a character that isn’t really a person in any tangible sense; he’s so obviously ‘written’ but Whitaker makes him whole. It’s really impressive stuff.
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The Swimmer 1968
Burt Lancaster’s backyard pool-hopping odyssey across a WASP infested Connecticut landscape filled with yuppies (and nudists) of all stripes. I feel like it’s a minor miracle that this film works as well as it does; so fucking bizarre. The over the top melodramatic score marrying itself to the surreal disintegration of a bourgeois philanderer somehow works even when you’re rolling your eyes at some of the cues. The acting veers from heightened to realistic from scene to scene and yet…
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