Different rules apply when it gets this late, you know what I mean? It's like... after hours
― 龜, Thursday, 7 August 2014 17:42 (twelve years ago)
More movies like this, please
Walter Hill's The Warriors, but I'd guess everyone has already seen it.
― autumn reckoning faction (xelab), Thursday, 7 August 2014 17:49 (twelve years ago)
Ghostbusters
― rip van wanko, Thursday, 7 August 2014 17:50 (twelve years ago)
Short Night of Glass Dolls is like a ridic giallo ews
― nauru, Thursday, 7 August 2014 17:54 (twelve years ago)
EWS/AH have a pretty specific viewpoint about men paying dearly for trying to get laid in the city
― Nhex, Thursday, 7 August 2014 17:54 (twelve years ago)
Hah I was going to talk about psychic labyrinths and the frustration of desire but that's a pretty good summation too
― 龜, Thursday, 7 August 2014 17:56 (twelve years ago)
http://www.thefilmjournal.com/images/Collateral.jpg
― the one where, as balls alludes (Eazy), Thursday, 7 August 2014 18:35 (twelve years ago)
http://www.moviefancentral.com/images/pictures/review77597/intothenight.jpg?1357803339
― the one where, as balls alludes (Eazy), Thursday, 7 August 2014 18:38 (twelve years ago)
I feel like Miracle Mile should qualify for this since most of the important stuff takes place in one late night/early morning, and it gives me another excuse to mention it. So that one.
― Simon H., Thursday, 7 August 2014 19:10 (twelve years ago)
Not sure Collateral fits what I'm looking for - think it's too literal
There's a sense of unreleased tension, or perhaps release into bathos, that I think these movies also share
Will look into Into the Night & others mentioned, ty
― 龜, Thursday, 7 August 2014 19:52 (twelve years ago)
Claire Denis's Friday Night, maybe, although unlike AH/EWS, the protagonist isn't punished for her desires.
― one way street, Thursday, 7 August 2014 20:02 (twelve years ago)
Into The Night a more normal '80s-date-night-adventure flick, you don't get the existential dread along with it
― Nhex, Thursday, 7 August 2014 20:05 (twelve years ago)
Dressed to Kill?
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Thursday, 7 August 2014 22:59 (twelve years ago)
Blue Velvet, maybe, although the opening sequence is a small masterpiece of daylight horror?
― one way street, Friday, 8 August 2014 15:07 (twelve years ago)
After Hours is like my favourite movie ever (and Eyes Wide Shut is pretty great too)
3 others in the same vein*Daytime Drinking (Korean awesomeness)*Edmond*Three Businessmen
― Ludo, Friday, 8 August 2014 19:40 (twelve years ago)
Definitely was thinking Edmond as well but couldn't find a good .jpg.
― the one where, as balls alludes (Eazy), Friday, 8 August 2014 19:45 (twelve years ago)