Scenes from Mean Streets and The American Friend
Summary The 1970s are known cinematically as the peak of New Hollywood, a period ripe with bold experimentation by artists at the height of their talent and influence, delivering a wave of classics in the making after the slow death of the creaky studio system. The era was also a high point for some of the best crime movies, from scrappy high-wire acts by older auteurs, like Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon, to pulpy, high-concept thrill rides, like Walter Hill’s The Warriors.
The film follows two small-time gangster buddies, Nicky , who’s perennially in hot water, and Mikey, , who cleans up his messes. This time, Nicky’s stolen from the mob and has a hitman on his trail. The largely improvised film is both melancholy and tense as the two men discuss their ever-shrinking set of options, holed up in a motel. In 1978, May recut the film, which has subsequently become a classic.
7 The Friends of Eddie Coyle Tragic And Warm Storytelling For A Gangster Movie The Friends of Eddie Coyle set the standard for the kinds of crime films set in Boston made famous by The Departed and The Town, decades later. Like Blue Collar, it follows a decent, deep-down kind of guy, Eddie “Knuckles” Coyle , as he finds himself reduced to snitching on his friends in the bank robbery racket in hopes the cops will give him a break on a separate charge.
Cosmo Vitelli is a nightclub owner with artistic aspirations and painfully few funds to bring them to life, made all the more desperate when a loan shark comes to collect. Unable to pay, the reluctant Cosmo must kill a bookie, or pay the price. The original cut, released in 1976, was a commercial dud, disliked even by Gazzara, but was released several years later as a much shorter cut.
In The Yakuza, Schrader’s characteristic metaphysical violence and air of mystery is on full display, tempered by Pollack’s often practical shooting style and clear interest in the underlying dreaminess of the material.
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