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I haven't heard of this, but the "greatest" caught my attention.
Blast of Silence
This compact and forceful low-budget film noir, from 1961, is one of the greatest of New York movies; it compresses a week in a hit man’s bitter life into a dazzlingly brisk yet richly nuanced drama. The director, Allen Baron, also stars as Frankie Bono, who arrives in New York the day before Christmas to whack a mid-level mobster and gets tangled in annoying practicalities. Blending documentary-style avidity for the details of surveillance, pursuit, and weapon procurement with anguished psychological exploration—all set amid the grubby passions of scuffling urban life—the movie brings wild intensity to Frankie’s mask-like blankness. His cold calculations run on the heat of anger; the impacted pain of his childhood as an orphan, his paranoid frenzy as a victim of Mob violence, and the howling loneliness of his shadowy existence converge in his hatred of his intended victim. Frankie’s thoughts emerge in a lurid second-person narration, delivered in the great character actor Lionel Stander’s buzz-saw baritone, and the action is captured in jagged, stone-hard black-and-white images that teem with the city’s architectural energy and kinetic discord.
— Richard Brody https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-...th-on-the-nile
Movie seems worth it just to see the NYC streetscape of the time. Second person narration seems like an interesting oddity. Anyone here actually watch it?
Movie seems worth it just to see the NYC streetscape of the time. Second person narration seems like an interesting oddity. Anyone here actually watch it?
I did see it and while the city is interesting, it's the suburbs. Wow.
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