Yojimbo?
― valorous wokelord (silby), Monday, 12 March 2018 01:35 (six years ago) link
What nails me in this neck of the woods is the struggle with a sense of guilt, however inchoate/bone deep, your own and someone else's, probably several somebodies, who are a lotta trouble (not like you got time to crawl off and get your head straight/penance on). Which includes the two I just mentioned, and also Clash By Night---no gangsters etc., but so much torture of self and others---b-but they can't help it! Or can they? Senses of personal motherfucking responsibility (except for cute little old uncle who goes on a demented glee spree of tongue-wagging)xpost Blade Runner goes even deeper: don't tell me what you did, what are you, man? Can you tell me that?
― dow, Monday, 12 March 2018 01:36 (six years ago) link
BrickHard Candy
― valorous wokelord (silby), Monday, 12 March 2018 01:46 (six years ago) link
In No Country For Old Men and Get Carter, it's all somebody else's fault, but visionary vengeance quests take personal responsibility so far that body parts could end up scuttling across the road to the next reckoning, if the movies went on a little longer. Bardem's character has tracked his shit down, killed the guilty etc. parties, why the wife too, she asks him. He promised her husband he would, he explains dutifully, quietly-sadly? Maybe deferentially, for she is part of the price that must be paid. Carter is HS-HAAAA, he'd never say anything like this, but he's payin' it forward too.
― dow, Monday, 12 March 2018 02:12 (six years ago) link
So anyway here's my ballot so far, just in the order they come to mind:Nightmare AlleyBlade RunnerNo Country For Old MenGet CarterChinatownClash By NightThe Postman Always Rings Twice (all three versions prob, although been a while since I've seen the Italian)DetourAct of ViolenceIn A Lonely PlaceVertigoTaxi Driver
― dow, Monday, 12 March 2018 02:21 (six years ago) link
HA-HAAAA, that should be.
― dow, Monday, 12 March 2018 02:23 (six years ago) link
Homicide (the Mamet film from 1991)Red Rock WestThe American FriendBring Me the Head of Alfredo GarciaThe Getaway (1972)
― omar little, Monday, 12 March 2018 02:25 (six years ago) link
Has anybody else seen Hit Man, the Blaxploitation version of Get Carter released the next year w/Bernie Casey & Pam Grier?
https://www.grindhousedatabase.com/images/Hit_man_insert.jpg
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 March 2018 02:26 (six years ago) link
Thieves' Highway
― cwkiii, Monday, 12 March 2018 02:26 (six years ago) link
CasinoAcross 110th StreetStraight TimeThe Seven-UpsPrime CutThe OutfitThe DriverBlue CollarKluteThe Onion FieldThe Laughing PolicemanThe Yakuza
― omar little, Monday, 12 March 2018 02:31 (six years ago) link
Wanna see Hit Man! What is Thieves' Highway about?? Good title.
Oh yeah and also for my ballot: Salesman, which seemingly totally makes sense as an Iranian situation today, but also so very true in so many places and times that ya don't think first (or maybe at all) of calling the cops, calling any Authoritah.
― dow, Monday, 12 March 2018 02:32 (six years ago) link
PitfallMurder, My Sweet
― omar little, Monday, 12 March 2018 02:38 (six years ago) link
xp Thieves' Highway: guy comes home from the war to find that his father has been crippled by a shady underworld character, guy vows revenge. From about five minutes into the film it's just absolutely relentless tension.
I don't watch that many movies but it's one of my favorites fwiw.
― cwkiii, Monday, 12 March 2018 02:44 (six years ago) link
oh man, Laughing Policeman is so good. Gotta find a way to rewatch that soon.
― ian, Monday, 12 March 2018 03:14 (six years ago) link
Liked the Outfit too -- one of the better Parker adaptations.
― ian, Monday, 12 March 2018 03:15 (six years ago) link
I love the story Jules Dassin shares on the Thieves Highway CC disc about how (supporting player) Jack Oakie had become deaf (during the war?), but nobody knew because as a result he became such an expert lip-reader.
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 March 2018 03:20 (six years ago) link
gonna watch night moves again now i guess.
― ian, Monday, 12 March 2018 03:29 (six years ago) link
man, i gotta watch cutter's way again soon too.
― ian, Monday, 12 March 2018 03:32 (six years ago) link
probably a bunch of repeats here, sorry:Snake EyesThe FugitiveDas BootPaper MoonThe Hunt For Red OctoberShaft (1971)The French ConnectionPort of ShadowsDead CalmBatman ReturnsA Fish Called WandaThe In-LawsClueThe Third ManDial M For MurderThe Poseidon AdventureSubwayThe Wages of FearJohnny Dangerously
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 12 March 2018 03:55 (six years ago) link
A couple of helpful Letterboxd lists:
Classic NoirNeo-Noir
― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Monday, 12 March 2018 04:18 (six years ago) link
dead mans shoesred riding 1980
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Monday, 12 March 2018 08:44 (six years ago) link
The Two Jakes
can i get a ruling on Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:03 (six years ago) link
crime noir mystery def
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:03 (six years ago) link
Violent CopBoiling PointSonatineHana-bi
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:07 (six years ago) link
The Offence
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:08 (six years ago) link
Hell is a CityThe CriminalRobbery
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:13 (six years ago) link
Pickpocket
― calzino, Monday, 12 March 2018 09:19 (six years ago) link
dark city
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:23 (six years ago) link
The Grissom GangDirty Harry
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:26 (six years ago) link
Tinker Tailor Soldier SpyThe HandmaidenThe Naked CityBad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
― devvvine, Monday, 12 March 2018 12:18 (six years ago) link
The General (1998 John Boorman with Brendan Gleeson)Paddington 2
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 12 March 2018 12:21 (six years ago) link
Insomnia (the Skarsgard one)Rear WindowAccident (Cheang, 1992)
― devvvine, Monday, 12 March 2018 12:32 (six years ago) link
sorry 2009 not 1992*
I might end up splitting my ballot across the genres - Lock Stock is basically the perfect crime movie but doesn't have much of the Mystery or Thriller.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 12 March 2018 12:33 (six years ago) link
The Big Lebowski(It probably would only make my ballot in a poll of comedies, but with Big Sleep and Long Goodbye present here, it felt missing.)
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 12 March 2018 12:34 (six years ago) link
so everything but 'romcoms' qualifies apparently
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 March 2018 13:08 (six years ago) link
no.......?
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 12 March 2018 13:12 (six years ago) link
xp we've saved your usual seat for the results thread, but you might have to be Waldorf and Statler, is that cool?
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 12 March 2018 13:14 (six years ago) link
because i've never had any desire to watch Hollywood butcher Insomnia i've only just realised it's Nolan who butchered it
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 March 2018 13:24 (six years ago) link
"The Handmaiden"
this is a good call xxxps, I fancy watching that again.
― calzino, Monday, 12 March 2018 13:27 (six years ago) link
Zodiac
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 12 March 2018 13:51 (six years ago) link
Nightcrawler
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 12 March 2018 14:18 (six years ago) link
every James Cagney film that isn't a musical
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 March 2018 14:50 (six years ago) link
Not mentioned so far, afaic, from most recent to oldest, and with a focus on non-US stuff that if put on the spot I probably wouldn't call "greatest ever" but that's really satisfying and interesting and sorta the reason why I love crime films:
Killer JoeIl DivoInfernal Affairs IIOld BoyCity On FireBlue VelvetInto The NightLa BalanceEmergency SquadRevolverBig Guns/Tony ArzentaThe Outside Man/Un Homme Est MortThe Italian ConnectionMilano Calibro 9Two Lane BlacktopZA Colt Is My PassportThe Small World Of Sammy LeeSalvatore GiulianoPigs & BattleshipsThe Man UpstairsTouch Of EvilThe Ship That Died Of ShameThe Big ComboThe Hitch HikerOn Dangerous GroundPool Of LondonPetrified ForestThe LodgerFantomas
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 12 March 2018 15:01 (six years ago) link
I love a noms list that just doubles as a general curiosity list for the genre. We'll be able to do long ballots too I hope??? So many good flicks in the noms already.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 12 March 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link
The Godfather Part III
― jmm, Monday, 12 March 2018 15:30 (six years ago) link
My aim would be a minimum of 25 flicks ideally and a maximum of 50. I think that's what I did for the action films?
Aiming for a reveal list of 75. Maybe 100. I dunno. We'll see!
― omar little, Monday, 12 March 2018 15:32 (six years ago) link
Serie NoireThe Line-UpCrime Wave (1985; The John Paizs film, not the Raimi film)Side StreetPeeping TomLe BoucherLa Ceremonie Purple Moon
― Chris L, Monday, 12 March 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link
here i am with some post-millennium flicks. is there some sort of "no supernatural elements" rule?
Animal KingdomMementoOldboyGone Baby GoneGone GirlEnd of WatchNon-Stop
― piper at the gates of d'awwww (voodoo chili), Monday, 12 March 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link
Personally, I'm interpreting 'thrillers' in a somewhat restricted sense, in what seems to be the spirit of the poll (crime as the central genre). I wouldn't vote for supernatural thrillers.
― jmm, Monday, 12 March 2018 18:47 (six years ago) link