i'm sort of habitually skeptical of this sort of searing urban realism, but this film is sort of astonishing. has anyone else seen this?
― amateurist, Thursday, 29 October 2009 06:36 (sixteen years ago)
obviously my thoughts on lumet have evolved.
this movie has a real aggressive, heterogeneous style that much of the time looks more like "the french connection" than anything made in 1965.
― amateurist, Thursday, 29 October 2009 06:38 (sixteen years ago)
It didn't blow me away, but I definitely liked it.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Thursday, 29 October 2009 06:42 (sixteen years ago)
this came out the same year as mickey one, huh? taken together that's a pretty big watershed moment.
― amateurist, Thursday, 29 October 2009 06:47 (sixteen years ago)
awesome film. should be dated cornball cheese but works brilliantly.
― Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Thursday, 29 October 2009 06:50 (sixteen years ago)
We saw this in high school film class. In subsequent viewings I found it shrill and overheated.
It was the first US film to break the Code's ban on female nudity.
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 October 2009 13:05 (sixteen years ago)
Saw it years ago, as a child I suppose, can't remember it
― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 October 2009 13:08 (sixteen years ago)