Oh, "Smoke"...I saw it at the cinema when it was first released and loved it. I've not seen it since and now want to...that long scene when Keitel talks about smoke having weight or not. Fabulous.
Harvey Keitel is way up on my all-time list. My dream cast, and movie, is Harvey Keitel, Roy Scheider, Gene Hackman, Ellen Barkin and Faye Dunaway in a film noir.
I remember always liking 8MM quite a bit and recently rewatched it and was reminded what an absolute banger it really is. That movie thunders to it's ending in a great way... if you're in the mood for it's extremes. I'm definitely going to track down Smoke. Please never regret watching trashy films, I know I don't. 🤘
You lament reminds me a bit of the old Len Evans quote. Something along the lines of "you can only drink so many glasses of wine in your life, why would I want to drink a bad one". I'm with you, a bit of goon every now and again connects you to the real world.
Another interesting video Terry. Nice Hamburger analogy, that kind of describes me too. I've always considered myself a Movie fan, however the kind of films that resonate with me are not always good. So like yourself when I see something good I promise myself to watch more, only to re-watch Abbott & Costello meet Frankenstein another time 🤨
There was a definitely a crack in the universe. About six hours ago, my wife gave me her 1980s college photo class contact sheet. She shot around 20-30 photos of random people on a famous Philadelphia street (South Street) and many of the photos had the same background with different people in each. I immediately thought of the movie Smoke which had a similar plotline. I hadn’t thought of that movie in over a decade but I always remember the scene where William Hurt spots his late wife in one of the pictures.
Smoke/Blue in the Face are specifically set in Brooklyn which is the more residential/working class. part of the city as opposed to Manhattan's corporate HQs and tourist traps. Brooklynites always have been a different and proud breed. Brooklyn set films: Do the Right Thing, Saturday Night Fever, Last Exit to Brooklyn. Love Keitel's work, very underrated. The Juror was a bit overly dramatic as I recall. Really liked Holy Smoke and the back & forth but I thought Keitel's character falls apart a bit too quickly. Seen all of these except for Men of Respect (didn't know it was Shakespeare), 8MM, Young Americans & Imaginary Crimes. Bad Lieutenant is my fav of these, very intense.
Director Abel Ferrara hed some great films in the 90's , Bad Lieutenant and King of New York with Christopher Walken two of my favorites. He also directed the third adaptation of Invasion of the Body Snatchers which was also quite good but not as well regarded as the original or Donald Sutherland versions
I still think the absolute best Joel Schumacher film is 1994's "Falling Down" with Micheal Douglas. Damn, but he deserved the Best Actor Oscar and Golden Globe for that role... but was not even nominated. The rest of the Cast was good, too. Rachel Ticotin, Frederick Forrest and especially Robert Duvall. "Wait a minute.... You mean I'm the Bad Guy?" (Essentially Heart of Urban Darkness"). Another great, under appreciated, movie is 2009's "Harry Brown" with Michael Caine. Set in a darker side of London that few appreciate even exists. Korean war Veteran Harry loses his oldest friend in a mugging and things accelerate from there. A Slow start, a HUGE twist and a sick feeling at the end that little has changed. Directed by Daniel Barber with a cast of british TV actors apart from Caine.
@@terrytalksmovies Personally, these were some of the standout years in movies that comes to mind: 1939, 1977, 1982, 1994, 1999... The decade of the 1970s was perhaps the best one with old-time directors and new ones like Coppola, Spielberg, Friedkin, Scorsese, de Palma, Lucas, Lynch, Scott, etc. Coppola alone had 4 masterpieces from 1972 to 1979: Godfather I, Godfather II, The Conversation and Apocalypse Now.
I *love* the cap. If I could find a t-shirt with that on it, I'd wear it everywhere. I saw Smoke at the cinema. Wasn't a fan, which is why I didn't persist with Blue in the Face. It seems like I might be more responsive to it now. Never heard of Men of Respect before, but Macbeth is one of my favourites by Big Bill (even if it is entirely defamatory towards the historical MacBeth). I'll look that one up. Never saw Bad Lieutenant but did watch the Nicolas Cage one, which is great but really unrelated. BL is one of those films I really should've seen before now. Incidentally, I just looked up Dangerous Game and, given how much Ferrara cursed Werner Herzog for making his "sequel", I was greatly amused to discover Herzog's actually *in* it (in some sort of archive footage). Also, funnily enough, Jane Campion was originally supposed to be in it too. Completely understand where you're coming from when you regret the time you've spent on trash films instead of respectable ones, cos I did much the same thing back in the oughts when I was a regular at Mu-Meson Archives (which I've just discovered is closing down, alas), and it wasn't until many years later that I realised how shabby my knowledge of classic cinema was in a lot of ways... cos I'd gone down various odd byways of film history, but I had kind of limited acquaintance with a lot of the more generally acknowledged classics (this is true of me with books as well). I have taken steps to rectify that, though there's still a lot of holes to be filled. But at the same time I've also had a lot of pleasure out of those odd byways, so I don't regret that time at all.
It was a horrible decade for comedy if you didn’t like Chris Farley or David Spade, but there were some real gems, like South Park and Kids in the Hall Brain Candy, and secret (?) comedy like Starship Troopers or eXistenZ
@@terrytalksmovies so true. I love black comedy, Monty Python and John Waters, all pretty specific tastes. I often find mainstream comedy to be too weak and/or predictable, but sometimes it’s surprisingly good
I’ve watched “Bad Lieutenant” (1992) with Harvey Keitel and “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans” (2009) with Nicholas Cage. Both are really good but I definitely prefer the 2009 one with a great cast and directed by Werner Herzog.
