The Killing is seriously wonderful, and I agree wholeheartedly with all of the above.
I know I'm not necessarily discovering anything that generations of film critics (or fans) haven't noticed before me, but it's new to me and I'm having so much fun. Like Cook's jazz drummer in Phantom Lady (1944). That character has his own cult following among critics and I was so glad to find out. He and Ella Raines deserve it.
[edit] What the hell, impostor syndrome. Thank you.
(It's ripped off to far lesser effect in the beginning of Parker, Jason Statham's uninspired version of Payback.)
Wait, Jason Statham was in a Donald Westlake adaptation and there's a third-generation version of Point Blank (1967)? I saw that movie for the first time earlier this summer and it was surprisingly weird.
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I know I'm not necessarily discovering anything that generations of film critics (or fans) haven't noticed before me, but it's new to me and I'm having so much fun. Like Cook's jazz drummer in Phantom Lady (1944). That character has his own cult following among critics and I was so glad to find out. He and Ella Raines deserve it.
[edit] What the hell, impostor syndrome. Thank you.
(It's ripped off to far lesser effect in the beginning of Parker, Jason Statham's uninspired version of Payback.)
Wait, Jason Statham was in a Donald Westlake adaptation and there's a third-generation version of Point Blank (1967)? I saw that movie for the first time earlier this summer and it was surprisingly weird.