In the pantheon of gritty and unforgiving westerns, taking the lone gunslinger trope to the snow might be my favorite
I watched the English dubbed, feel-bad cut, and the feel-badness not disappoint.
The Great Silence (1968)
A subtle, restrained movie that’s absolutely a Heat prequel. When Neil McCauley talks about liquor store holdups and born to lose tattoos, he’s talking about his origin story in this movie.
Straight Time (1978)
This one screams on the screen with a bold opening and barrels towards a glorious explosion of magnificent nihilism and cathartic dread, à la *that* episode of Twin Peaks: The Return. What a fucking movie.
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
The play "Hiroshima", a tribute to the victims of the first atomic bomb, with music and singing by Yoko Ono, opened in New York City this week.
One tearful Japanese survivor of the attack, who attended the premiere, called the play, quote, "the most horrifying experience of my life."
I have no business recommending this bizarre and hilarious movie to anyone unless your sensibilities align within the narrow nexus of Kubrick, Warhol, Waters, Lynch, R Crumb, and Beavis and Butthead.
The Telephone Book (1971)
Completely lost interest in this trend once I understood that these scans are not just a little inaccurate to what was originally seen in the theater but likely not even close to what any film is supposed to look like
@Trunks3008 Walker is as subtle as George Washington wearing a Monster Energy shirt and shouting “get sum, immigrants” while dual wielding M60s and riding a T-Rex, but filmed by Terry Gilliam.