Thursday, October 18, 2012

Hard 80's Action Cinema and Moliere's Weekend Viewing Recommendation Part 2

SHARKY'S MACHINE (1981)
Directed by Burt Reynolds
Flat 1.85:1
U.S.

I put watching this one off for a while because I though it might be a bad movie but instead it is ultra hard and entertaining and way underrated. Burton's directing is hard too, he pulls off a lot of cool shots that are often copied today.




Hard 80's Action Cinema and Moliere's Weekend Viewing Recommendation Part 1

PRINCE OF THE CITY (1981)
Directed by Sidney Lumet
Flat 1.85:1
U.S.

One of the hardest films ever made about corruption within the police department and the cop who turns them all in. The film is based on one of the hardest novels I have ever read written by Ex-NYPD cop Robert Daley under the same title as the film.  Treat Williams is so fucking hard in this that his performance obviously inspired many other performances in cop/mobster type shows and films like American Gangster and The Sopranos. It pushes a 3 hour run time but it is so fucking hard and awesome, you won't notice it. Hardness at it's best: