Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by TA (A) on January 16, 2005 at 20:32:33

In Reply to: The Long Good Friday - a great movie in that genre posted by Victor Khomenko on January 16, 2005 at 20:02:25:

That is a heluva good film, Victor. I love it.

British gangster films seem to have taken on an unusual quality in recent years - it's like they've run their course with showing you violence and now explore it sideways.

I recently watched I'll Sleep When I'm Dead with Clive Owen (and directed by the same guy who did an earlier effort of his, Croupier). Owen plays a former gangster, so his performance is low-key and doesn't reach that bad ass, Samuel L. Jackson burning point. It's an interesting film that seems to focus more on the space between the lines.

Have you seen the Sopranos? I'm not much for TV but that was a very good series. I watched the first two seasons and have only recently seen the later seasons on DVD (through netflix). It builds up characters slowly in a way that you can't in one movie and has very good drama as things come back from earlier actions to give the characters their comeuppance.

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