What Swanky Things are you Watching?

[Not Afraid]

Edit: He won't get out of my brain, he's a faster writer than I am, and NO, he's get's no naked w/fur show.


What have I been watching? This week it was 2 Crime/mob flicks BOTH from 1967.


One - Point Blank - is a classic Hollywood piece of extraordinaty influence done in a style that seemed more European than Hollywoodian.

The other - Branded to Kill - is an amazing, noir-ish twisted tale of love, death and rice sniffing from Japan's prolific Director, Seijun Suzuki.

I really have very little familiarity with 1960's mob flicks. I can't name many others I've seen (if any) but I sure know what they influenced. I could recognize bits of Kill Bill, the Hong Kong films of John Woo, even Down By Law had the feel of B2K. In these 2 films, a whole new world of filmmaking was opened up to me that really wasn't aware of - nor did I think I'd like! I found myself thinking about both films for quite a while after viewing them. They made me want to discuss - and discuss some more.

Now, I want MORE.