LongsightM13
Well-Known Member
Can I nominate two films based on the work of my all-time favourite writer, jim Thompson.
The Grifters, with John Cusak, about small-time con artists.Wonderfully seedy and sleazy.
Also, The Killer Inside Me, out in the pictures recently, with Casey Affleck as an outwardly nice-but-dim small town sheriff who is really a homicidal maniac. Great stuff, but not easy viewing at times.
Other gritty classics I love are Serpico, Pacino at his very best. And for out and out craziness, Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia. One of Tarrantino's favourite films, by all accounts
The Grifters, with John Cusak, about small-time con artists.Wonderfully seedy and sleazy.
Also, The Killer Inside Me, out in the pictures recently, with Casey Affleck as an outwardly nice-but-dim small town sheriff who is really a homicidal maniac. Great stuff, but not easy viewing at times.
Other gritty classics I love are Serpico, Pacino at his very best. And for out and out craziness, Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia. One of Tarrantino's favourite films, by all accounts