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  • #16
    Oh, and this...

    'You know, I'd almost forgotten what your eyes looked like. Still the same. Pissholes in the snow'

    http://www.paul-a-j-lewis.com (my photography website)
    'All explaining in movies can be thrown out, I think': Elmore Leonard

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    • #17
      It's turning into a Charles Bronson Christmas round my neck of the woods... or a Bronsonmas, perhaps.

      Either way, I revisited THE MECHANIC last night, again for the first time in perhaps 15 years. This was one of my favourite films when I was an adolescent. It was as good as I remembered it to be, heavily influenced by the existential, pared down action of European crime films like Melville's LE SAMOURAI. Winner proves himself to be as good at what Colin McArthur termed the 'cinema of process' as Melville: that whole opening sequence, in which Bronson sets up the execution of the elderly man in the rundown apartment is superb and could function as a short film in and of itself.

      Despite how bizarre his pictures became in the 1980s, with these 1970s films Winner was on a roll. I'd place this, CHATO'S LAND, LAWMAN and the first DEATH WISH amongst the best American films of that decade.

      Re: The apartment with the beach view in which the girl attempts suicide. This, I reckon, is the same beach fronted building in which Bruce Dern gives Peter Fonda's character his first acid trip in THE TRIP. Can anyone confirm this?
      'You know, I'd almost forgotten what your eyes looked like. Still the same. Pissholes in the snow'

      http://www.paul-a-j-lewis.com (my photography website)
      'All explaining in movies can be thrown out, I think': Elmore Leonard

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