HueyLongJr

The Gentlemen may be the best crime film since Miami Vice in the mid-00’s. It’s overlooked because it’s funny.

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Carrie ‘76
Dressed To Kill ‘80
Blow Out ‘81
Scarface ‘83
Body Double ‘84
Wise Guys ‘86
The Untouchables’87
Casualties Of War ‘89
Bonfires Of The Vanities ‘90

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DePalma would oscillate between taking on gun-for-hire projects and then his more creepy obsessive personal projects. There's a very good documentary about him directed by Noah Baumbach. He's not as highly regarded as the 70's auteurs today, but he was definitely an artistic and social peer in that time. The documentary is basically a very long interview with him, and he's very entertaining.

Very underrated. My favorite De Palma movie after Body Double. Besides the usual Hitchcock nods, it's also an homage to the 60's Antonioni film Blow Up, in which a photographer in unsure whether he photographed a murder in Swinging 60's London.

In honor of black Joan of Arc, what's your best idea for race-washing in a movie. I'm fond of an all-white cast for "Motown: The Early Days".

Wait until you discover 7th grade boys soccer.

From a storytelling and casting perspective, they are about equal. Collateral is a pretty major technical achievement. It's mostly set at night and was shot on digital when digital wasn't quite ready for this kind of effort. But they made it work.

Michael Mann Peers Into the Digital Night: The Director and His Team Reflect on the Look of ‘Collateral’ and ‘Miami Vice’

The plot was too convoluted. The Vatican bank stuff was just distracting. There was some bad casting. Hamilton and Sofia Coppola. Also the opera singing son subplot was stupid. Between casting and story, the movie was doomed.

Hard to say because it will depend on how dark the roux, the type of stock (dark, light, or boxed), and your own taste. I just add to taste.

NW Arkansas.

The way it's played, it's a terrible sport. I'm not interested in it at all.