Thief is good -- "men working while Tangerine Dream pulses on the soundtrack" owes a lot to Friedkin's Sorceror (which I finally got to see on the big screen -- Film Forum a few months ago). In fact, a lot of Thief and Mann can be seen in Sorceror.
rififi was clearly an influence as well although maybe all modern heist films can claim that as a founding document.
manns manhunter has been on this month and despite its familiar terrain it hasnt drawn me in.
Thanks re: Riffifi -- will look for it.
I went on a Jean-Pierre Melville binge a while back.
I saw Manhunter in the theatre in the 80s -- pretty distinctively strange at the time. Arty -- but I kind of liked that about it.
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Thief is good -- "men working while Tangerine Dream pulses on the soundtrack" owes a lot to Friedkin's Sorceror (which I finally got to see on the big screen -- Film Forum a few months ago). In fact, a lot of Thief and Mann can be seen in Sorceror.
- tom moody 10-30-2014 2:54 pm
rififi was clearly an influence as well although maybe all modern heist films can claim that as a founding document.
manns manhunter has been on this month and despite its familiar terrain it hasnt drawn me in.
- dave 10-30-2014 5:50 pm [add a comment]
Thanks re: Riffifi -- will look for it.
I went on a Jean-Pierre Melville binge a while back.
I saw Manhunter in the theatre in the 80s -- pretty distinctively strange at the time. Arty -- but I kind of liked that about it.
- tom moody 10-30-2014 8:06 pm [add a comment]