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The Long Goodbye 1973
This is perhaps one of the best of the Neo-Noir movies I've seen, a good ramp-up to the following year's "Chinatown". Altman and Gould manage to take a decades old detective story and adapt it to early-70s cultural sensibilities.
Hell, Gould's take on detective Marlowe sometimes reminds me of Jeff Lebowski. The Lebowski-esque comes from Gould's cool detachment and sometimes bafflement to the world of 1973 L.A. The sequence where Marlowe has to go to the grocery store at 2AM…
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Anora 2024
A few potshots:
Madison is well worth watching the movie alone for; she really is great here and does the most of the character as written.
Speaking of characters, I think, despite the movie being about Ani, we don't get quite enough of what drives her. This is a nitpick however since the answer here might just be that her motivations are pretty simple.
The first half of the movie feels a bit too long before things pick up when…
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The Big Clock 1948
A movie that seems to combine Noir/Hitchock and even some screwball comedy elements into a really good movie that somehow works. The show is ahead of its time in the way it depicts office drone life. Was it an influence on Billy Wilder for 1960's The Apartment?
Charles Laughton is great as always as the malevolent boss and the Ray Milland is decent if not entirely sympathetic. Just okay. Elsa Lanchester is great in a small part and Harry Morgan from MASH plays a creepy fixer/henchman/masseuse who seems to have no lines yet comes off credibly threatening. I'll be checking this one out again for sure.
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Fort Apache 1948
A complex cavalry-Western with a lot of the usual John Ford trademarks. The first third of the show takes a little time getting going. Ford likes to linger sometimes making sure there is screen time to have a dance and scenes with the obligatory Irish characters getting dunk.
Really though, the show can be read a couple of different ways but the movie is very clear eyed about American history (at least within the confines of this time and genre)…
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