Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This somewhat forgotten 1990 Hyams thriller with Gene Hackman as the rugged lead, is a much better picture than “Let The Sunshine In” (2017) which I mistakenly watched the night before
The best Dorsky I’ve seen. My friend who came to the screening with me described the final shot of this as a “guillotine of light.”
Lumet’s “Bye Bye Braverman” bests Friedkin’s “The French Connection” in discontinuous shots of Brooklyn, New York. Although Friedkin convincingly manages montages that cut from Bed Stuy to Borough Park, Lumet fancifully cuts between Williamsburg, Bay Ridge, Crown Heights, Midwood, Park Slope, Ditmas Park only for the friends to find their funeral (which was allegedly located in Flatbush, “where ocean Avenue comes out of prospect park”) filmed in Flushing, Queens — World’s Fair grounds squarely in sight.
I thought that a Gazzara/Sorvino “Prince of the City” exploitation, made-for-tv flick from 1982 — with Aiello, Vaughn, and Roberts in support & only 13 views on Letterboxd— could just be the thing. I was pretty much completely wrong.