A downbeat film about an aging smalltime career criminal on the lower-tier of the Irish Mafia in Boston, this is more of a character study than a thriller. And Robert Mitchum is perfect as Eddie Coyle. He’s living on the edge of desperation, making deals and trying to cash in on loyalties long gone. His dreams of an easier life keep slipping further away. So he considers becoming an informer to stave off going to prison. It’s…
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Salome's Last Dance 1988
August 2022: Theme of the Month - Make/Remake
"Salome" (1922) vs "Salome's Last Dance" (1988)Like Nazimova, director Ken Russell sticks closely to the storyline of Oscar Wilde's 1891 one-act play. But Russell puts an interesting frame around it. He imagines it as being staged in a brothel frequented by Wilde and his young lover Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas as a birthday present to Wilde because the play had been banned. The parts are played by the sex workers (male…
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The Florida Project 2017
There's always been films about children and families living on the margins of society. But here Sean Baker shines an ironic and unflinching spotlight on kids living in the cheap "welfare hotels" just a short distance from Orlando's Disney World where families across the country and beyond come to experience (and pay expensive admission fees) for a fantasy version of the American dream.
It's a masterful move, and it's to Baker's credit that he does this without judgement. He lets…