Lawrence of Arabia - 8/10Hadn't seen it in a while. WAY TOO LONG, WAY TOO MUCH MUSIC, WAY TOO MUCH PRE-BRANDO OVERACTING. The rest of it is still as great as they say it is. I swear to the gods of cinema that one day I'll make an epic movie one day that will have as much materiality/physicality/howeveryoucallit as this.
Miller's Crossing (1990) - A great retelling of Red Harvest/Yojimbo/A Fistful of Dollars with maybe some Le Doulos tossed in there. Excellent all around and gets better every time I see it. A-
The way I see it, Don't look Now is the missing link between Peckinpah's experiments and a whole new school of editing that I have trouble finding a word for, but here are some of the films I include in it:- Maybe even the "blue flashes/close ups" in Kieslowski's Trois Couleurs : Bleu
It does get better every time. The one thing that keeps bothering me is how slow and fake the action scene feels.
Uh . . . The Glass Key? You couldn't mention that one (and it's the nearest match)?
The Glass Key (1942) - Very liberated and feels more like a 50's French noir than an early Hollywood one. This might be better than The Maltese Falcon since there is a little more scope and some violent scenes like Ladd escaping his captors, which holds up incredibly well. A-
Hour of the Wolf (1968) - 5/10. I've gone back to this film time and time again, waiting for the wolf to appear. Nary a glimpse. Effing Bergman!