Prison Films

Prison films and writing on prison films. Curated by Dr Jamie Bennett

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Runaway Train (dir Andrei Konchalovsky, 1985)

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The brutal curb-stomp from AMERICAN HISTORY X. It was achieved with a rubber curb and a bouncy dummy head, and looks brutally real on screen.

[Cinema Tweets @CinemaTweets1]

American History X released 28 years ago yesterday. I know that sounds like a random anniversary to bring up, but anytime I can mention this movie, I feel an obligation. Edward Norton is a really misunderstood…person. I pause there because I think there’s an inclination to call Norton a misunderstood artist. But it goes beyond that: Norton is misunderstood on a human level by many of us. But when he’s put in the right situation & given a script he’s passionate about, few have ever been better than this man.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

AMERICAN HISTORY X turns 28 today.

Edward Norton turned down a role in SAVING PRIVATE RYAN to play Derek Vinyard. He also took less than half his usual $1 million fee and transformed his physique, gaining 30 pounds of muscle for the role.

[Paul Parcellin @PaulPar]

Violent convict Van Duff (William Bendix) leads a mass prison break. Six survive and Duff is wounded. He offers the others a split of loot he stashed if they help him get away. To do so they must survive a treacherous journey and stay ahead of the law. "Crashout" (1955) #filmnoir

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John Malkovich explaining how filming Con Air with a crew of criminals and athletes led to the most chaotic safety meeting in Hollywood history

John Malkovich: So, I'd never been around that kind of group of men like that, and some of them are convicts, some of them were the lightweight boxing champions of San Quentin prison, some of them were professional football players, professional hockey enforcers

So, it was really like I'd never done something with a group of people that you wouldn't let outside of your they could be in your yard in theory, but not really in your house

So, it was just for me it was hilarious, I loved it

And that scene, I believe, is from the scene where we had a big safety meeting, and uh Andy Samberg, the American actor and comedian who spent years at Saturday Night Live and did great music videos such as Jizz in My Pants, he did one of near touching, and Dick in a Box, of course, we shouldn't forget all that

He did one called Cool Guys Don't Look at Explosions, and which featured this explosion in Con Air. 

Graham Norton: Oh, there you are. 

John Malkovich: And see, you can't look back; they can look back because they're not cool, but I can't look back.

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@ATRightMovies That’s too easy

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The Shawshank Redemption vs The Green Mile – better prison drama?

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Better Performance...

George Kennedy Cool Hand Luke
or
Morgan Freeman
The Shawshank Redemption

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@TheCinesthetic Unchained Melody https://t.co/D2MFbxYEsK

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Unchained (dir Hall Bartlett, 1955)

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@MicheleMKaufma1 @mf2hda Very good - most meaningful depiction of restorative justice I’ve seen in a film.

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All Your Faces (dir Jeanne Herry, 2023)

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Crashout (dir Lewis R. Foster, 1955)

[Paul Parcellin @PaulPar]

Sing Sing inmate Tommy Gordan (John Garfield) is offered temporary unsupervised parole to visit his ailing girlfriend. But that highly unusual privilege soon turns to ash. "Castle on the Hudson" (1940) #filmnoir

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

"Pixote" (1980) is one of those rare movies that is emotionally devastating from the beginning to the end. Without any compromise, Hector Babenco shows the brutal reality of everyday life of juvenile delinquents in Sao Paulo, Brazil. There are few great films for which one has to garner strength to re-watch, "Pixote" is certainly one of those. Once you see it, it is difficult to forget.

P.S: On this day, 46 years ago, "Pixote" (1980) was released in Brazil.

[Badger @Bertrom]

Chris Marker.
La Jetée.
1962.

One of the most influential, radical science-fiction films ever made, a tale of time travel told in still images.

The inspiration for the Terry Gilliam film 12 Monkeys, and in itself influenced by Hitchcock’s Vertigo.
I loved screening these.

[ausi ouane @ausiouane]

Revisionnage d'#AnimalFactory : loin d'être le plus connu des films de prison, il bénéficie d'un excellent casting et d'un #WillemDafoe magistral mais reste trop sage niveau scénario et réalisation.
Dommage que mon DVD soit a poil niveau bonus avec sa malheureuse bande-annonce.

[Badger @Bertrom]

Watching Tony Richardson's ‘The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner’ and François Truffaut's ‘Les quatre cents coups’ on a tiny b&w t.v. was a revelation to me as a lad from a dysfunctional family. My future love of cinema and my film teaching career began at that point.