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521335, 70's crime film post
Posted by Amritsar, Fri Jun-04-10 05:52 PM
recommend some of the best of, in your opinion, this genre



-French Connection
-Godfather 1, 2
-Serpico
-Dog Day Afternoon
521351, Straight Time!
Posted by Mynoriti, Fri Jun-04-10 11:28 PM
can't recommend it highly enough
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078326/

The Seven Ups is another gem
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070672/
521370, RE: 70's crime film post
Posted by Sponge, Sat Jun-05-10 04:19 AM
Whatever order you feel like with these:

Across 110th Street (worth it just for the location shooting alone)
Charley Varrick
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
The Laughing Policeman
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three


If we're not limiting it to U.S. films, then check out:

Dirty Money (Un Flic)
Le cercle Rouge
Get Carter
524617, finally caught Friends of Eddie Coyle yesterday
Posted by Mynoriti, Tue Jun-29-10 03:50 PM
really dug it. Mitchum is that dude
524777, yeah that film made me wanna check out more of Mitchum's work
Posted by Amritsar, Wed Jun-30-10 09:42 AM
>really dug it. Mitchum is that dude
524881, Out of the Past, Night of the Hunter, Angel Face
Posted by Sponge, Wed Jun-30-10 04:56 PM
^^ my favorite Mitchum performances. I still get kind of mad whenever I think about Katherine Hepburn saying Mitchum couldn't really act.
524892, haha exact ones I would have recommended.
Posted by Mynoriti, Wed Jun-30-10 05:48 PM
the first two anyway. I have to watch Angel Face again because I don't remember it very well.

and wow, I had no idea she said that
524879, Yeah, not a masterpiece or anything but notable
Posted by Sponge, Wed Jun-30-10 04:49 PM
Feels like something that'll grow on me. And yeah, Mitchum certainly is.
521443, thx for the recs guys
Posted by Amritsar, Sun Jun-06-10 11:20 AM
they've all been added to my que
521449, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
Posted by ricky_BUTLER, Sun Jun-06-10 12:40 PM
Jeff Bridges gives one of my all-time favorite performances.

Up there with Repo Man and Scarface as far as having memorable dialogue.

Surreal / subversive touches that work.

The Deer Hunter? No, this is Cimino's matserpiece.
524619, just saw it on Hulu. awesome
Posted by Mynoriti, Tue Jun-29-10 03:54 PM
dunno about masterpiece, but it's really good

what did you consider subversive about it? whatever it was i think i missed it
524638, re: subversive
Posted by ricky_BUTLER, Tue Jun-29-10 05:47 PM
Particularly with Bridges' encounter with the nude housewife and his conversation with Red about it afterwards, the movie seemed to be flipping conventional expectations of masculinity / heterosexuality on its head. There are other borderline moments that toy with mainstream masculinity, but that sequence of the film always stood out to me.

I remember seeing the film years back, hopping over to imdb, and mostly agreeing with this post : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072288/board/nest/31834225 . . . I don't think the whole film is as heavily coded as people in that thread tend to believe, but it feels more right than wrong to me.

Couple all that with Cimino's own ambiguous sexuality and "gay" subtext in The Deer Hunter*, and I think you've got something.




*It's been a decade since I've last seen The Deer Hunter, so I'm mostly trusting what I've read about the film in the years since. Yeah . . .
525608, whoa thats a big statement
Posted by Amritsar, Mon Jul-05-10 12:19 PM
>The Deer Hunter? No, this is Cimino's matserpiece.


imma have to check it out off the strength
521463, The Anderson Tapes
Posted by rdhull, Sun Jun-06-10 01:29 PM

"Hi"-(c)Joker
521464, get carter is magnificent. it's in my all-time top 10.
Posted by dula dibiasi, Sun Jun-06-10 02:04 PM
also, technically late 60s, but if you haven't seen point blank w/ lee marvin, do yourself a favor asap.
524875, Get Carter and Point Blank are great
Posted by colonelk, Wed Jun-30-10 04:35 PM
Lee Marvin is maybe the toughest man ever to live.
524883, marvin in the steel-gray sharkskin suit waving the .357 bulldog.
Posted by dula dibiasi, Wed Jun-30-10 04:57 PM
iconic. the definition of badass.
522664, The Seven Ups
Posted by Raised under Reagan, Tue Jun-15-10 10:03 AM
522746, It gets tons of hate
Posted by zuma1986, Tue Jun-15-10 10:36 PM
But I loved the concept, The French Connection II I thought was worth a watch. Not as great as the first but again great concept and Gene Hackman in the 70's was always great.

I also recommend
Mean Streets
McCabe & Ms. Miller (Godfather was on your list so I figure other period pieces were cool)
Thief (Came out 1981 but has a more 70's feel to it)
Gambling City (Italian)
Rabid Dogs (Italian)
524400, only part i didn't care for was the ending
Posted by Amritsar, Mon Jun-28-10 04:25 PM
>But I loved the concept, The French Connection II I thought
>was worth a watch. Not as great as the first but again great
>concept and Gene Hackman in the 70's was always great.




they tried to re-create the chase scene in the first, and it just feels forced.

And the final shot of the film with Popeye shooting Alain doesn't really give any sense of closure imo.




>
>I also recommend
>Mean Streets
>McCabe & Ms. Miller (Godfather was on your list so I figure
>other period pieces were cool)
>Thief (Came out 1981 but has a more 70's feel to it)
>Gambling City (Italian)
>Rabid Dogs (Italian)


^added to the que, thx
524476, a few I didnt see mentioned already:
Posted by Bombastic, Mon Jun-28-10 11:34 PM
The Last Detail (more of a 'road movie' than crime flick but considering a crime and the orders given by a military court sets the whole thing in motion I'm counting it, maybe Jack Nicholson's most underrated 70s flick plus I believe the film debut of a shockingly young Randy Quaid)
The Conversation (Hackman, Coppola, wire-tapping, more head trip than action flick but classic)
The Getaway (Steve McQueen at his anti-hero, ho-slapping best......sidenote: Bullit is late 60s but also essential if you're a fan of the man's work)
524616, ^^^great choices
Posted by Mynoriti, Tue Jun-29-10 03:48 PM
not all crime flicks, but all great movies
524776, thx bomb ... you upped this just in time
Posted by Amritsar, Wed Jun-30-10 09:42 AM
my que is running low
524632, Don't let this post go down like the french film post
Posted by Buddy_Gilapagos, Tue Jun-29-10 05:13 PM
that was worth anchoring so folks could do their course work on french films. This one should be anchored so folks can do their course work on a great period/genre of film.

**********
524646, dirty harry should count.
Posted by Binlahab, Tue Jun-29-10 06:56 PM
sympathy for the underdog
across 110th street
super fly
the yakuza
rockers
vengeance is mine


nothing really matters to meeeeeeee


bin's super soulful song of the week (6/28 update): http://tinyurl.com/yyhw2n3
524876, outside the box
Posted by colonelk, Wed Jun-30-10 04:37 PM
Consider:

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie - Cassavettes

The Long Goodbye - Altman

The latter is more of a noir film than crime pic. The former is really its own genre. They are both solid.
524953, i need to see chinese bookie again
Posted by Mynoriti, Thu Jul-01-10 03:10 AM
I don't remember much. i didn't dislike it but it definitely wasn't what I expected. still one of the best movie titles ever

The Long Goodbye is great. any film that can make a classic scene out of something as mundane as a guy feeding his cat deserves a ton of credit.
525015, yeah, the title sets very different expectations
Posted by colonelk, Thu Jul-01-10 12:26 PM
Like all Cassevettes it's really just a weird, messy character piece. With some genre elements thrown in. Ben Gazarra is always excellent.