The first film we watched in Virtual Film Night, a necessary result of lockdown.
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Nomads 1986
Flawed and culturally flimsy, yet exactly the kind of messed up 80's style extended music video neonfest that Tarrantino might champion.
Just like the 80s, everything is artificial, and that includes the lighting and the accents. It always seems difficult to finish these hyper-kinetic movies with a satisfactory payoff, but Nomads has a good one.
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Stranger on the Third Floor 1940
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Directed by Latvian born Boris Ingster, The Stranger on the Third Floor is sometimes considered to be the first film noir. Of course other films had elements of noir within them, but the narrative arc of TSOTTF and the general atmosphere of sweaty desperation in an ominous cityscape places all the required tropes together as a coherent whole. They had of course been producing this kind of dark cinema in France since the 1930s (hence the French expression film noir),…
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Villain 1971
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Directed by Michael Tuchner, the 1971 film Villain is a plunge into the seedy, violent underworld of London gangster and all-round thug Vic Dakin (Richard Burton). The borderline comedy cockney accent adopted by Burton for his portrayal of the unredeemable Dakin puts him in the same league as Dick Van Dyke regarding improbable pronunciation. How ever you dress it up, Burton is Welsh and it shows through the cracks in his faux East End swagger.
Modelled on Ronnie Kray, Dakin…
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