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Tag Archives: James Woods
M Emmet Walsh and Blood Simple
“Well Ma’am if I see him, I’ll sure give him the message.” The late Roger Ebert called it the “Stanton-Walsh Rule”. Any movie “featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M.Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can’t be altogether bad”. I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in 70s American crime films, 80s American crime films, Film Noir, James Woods, M Emmet Walsh
Tagged Blade Runner (1982), Blood Simple (1984), Dan Hedaya, Dashiell Hammett, Edward Bunker, Fast Walking (1982), Francis McDormand, Harry Dean Stanton, James Woods, M Emmet Walsh, No Beast So Fierce, Red Harvest, Roger Ebert, Straight Time (1978)
Hunger and other films about doing time
I haven’t spent a lot of time in prisons and don’t want to. But I won’t deny they make tremendous story settings. This was brought home to me again over the weekend after watching Hunger, Steve McQueen’s 2008 depiction of … Continue reading
Posted in 60s American crime films, 70s American crime films, 80s American crime films, Adrian McKinty, Australian crime film, Bryan Brown, Film Noir, James Woods, Stuart Rosenberg
Tagged A Prophet (2002), Adrian Mckinty, Alan Parker, Big Doll House (1971), Brute Force (1947), Burt Lancaster, Caged (1950) Agnes Morehead, Christopher Dale Flannery, Cold Ground, Cool Hand Luke (1967), Ernest Brawley, Everynight... Everynight (1994), Fast Walking (1982), Ghosts of the Civil Dead (1988), Hunger (2008), Jackson County Jail (1976), Jacques Audiard, James Woods, McVicar (1980), Michael Fassbender, Midnight Express (1980), Night and the City (1950), prison films, Steve McQueen, Stir (1980), Stuart Rosenberg, The Cold, The Rap, Thieves Highway (1949)
Split Image: James Woods and how to do sleaze redux
It’s taken a while, but last night I concluded my James Woods festival by finally watching the 1982 film Split Image. I won’t say what I had to do to track down a copy of this little known gem. Let’s … Continue reading
Fast Walking: James Woods and how to do sleaze
Ever since I posted on the underrated movie Cop a few months ago, I’ve been engaged in my own James Woods film festival. As I wrote at the time, Cop is a great little neo noir that combines the rogue … Continue reading
Posted in 70s American crime films, 80s American crime films, Crime film, James Woods
Tagged Against All Odds (1984), Another Day in Paradise (1998), Best Seller (1987), Casino (1995), Diggstown (1992), Eighties American crime films, Fast Walking (1982), J Emmett Walsh, James Woods, Kay Lenz, Seventies American crime films, The Onion Field (1979), True Believer (1989), Videodrome (1983)
Cop: is it the best movie ever made of a James Ellroy novel?
I’m going to go way out on a limb here, and say that in my opinion the relatively unknown movie Cop may just be the best adaptation of a James Ellroy book to hit the screen. When I opened my … Continue reading
