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Showing posts with label gangsters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gangsters. Show all posts
Thursday, January 8, 2026

Noir Crime Watch: Dillinger (1945)

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Watched:  01/08/2025 Format:  HBOmax Viewing:  First Director:  Max Nosseck A biopic of famed gangster John Dillinger , Dillinger (1945) is...
Sunday, September 28, 2025

35th Anniversary Re-Watch: Miller's Crossing (1990)

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Watched:  09/27/2025 Format:  Criterion Disc Viewing:  Unknown Director:  Coen Bros . In late summer 1990, I saw the trailer for Miller'...
Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Noir Watch: Force of Evil (1948)

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Watched:  09/01/2025 Format:  Disc Viewing:  Third Director:  Abraham Polonsky So, what I remembered about this movie from my prior viewings...
Monday, August 11, 2025

Coppola Watch: The Godfather, Coda - The Death of Michael Corleone/ AKA: The Godfather Part III (1990)

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Watched:  08/10/2025 Format:  4K Viewing:  third or fourth Director:  Francis Ford Coppola Released on Christmas Day in 1990, I saw The Godf...
Sunday, August 10, 2025

Signal Watch Reads: The Godfather

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Memory is a tricky thing.  I was positive I'd read Mario Puzo 's novel The Godfather back in high school, but since it's been w...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

Noir Watch: The Gangster ( 1947)

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Watched:  07/15/2025 Format:  TCM Viewing:  Second You know what, I think I would just repeat myself - so here's my post on the movie fr...
Saturday, May 10, 2025

Gangster Watch: The Roaring Twenties (1939)

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Watched:  05/09/2025 Format:  Criterion Disc Viewing:  First-ish? Director:  Raoul Walsh Fun (likely apocryphal) fact:  This movie from 1939...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Noir Watch: The Set-Up (1949)

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we always stan Totter and Ryan Watched:  04/21/2025 Format:  Noir Alley on TCM Viewing:  fourth?  fifth? Director:  Robert Wise It's bee...
Monday, April 14, 2025

Classic Watch: The Godfather Part II (1974)

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Watched:  04/13/2025 Format:  4K disc that failed, and then streaming Viewing:  Unknown Director:  Francis Ford Coppola Well.  What do you e...
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Saturday, February 1, 2025

Scorsese Watch: Goodfellas (1990)

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Watched:  01/31/2025 Format:  4K Viewing:  Unknown Director:  Martin Scorsese Goodfellas (1990) is one of my favorite movies, but I don'...
Monday, September 16, 2024

1930's Watch: Dead End (1937)

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Watched:  09/15/2024 Format:  Amazon Viewing:  First Director:  William Wyler After seeing Sylvia Sydney - and quite liking her - in Merrily...
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Monday, May 20, 2024

Crime Watch: The Untouchables (1987)

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Watched:  05/19/2024 Format:  4K Viewing:  Unknown Director:  Brian DePalma When I was 12, it was, for reasons lost to time, very important ...
Monday, May 23, 2022

PodCast 200: "Once Upon a Time in America" (1984) - Signal Watch Canon Episode w/ SGHarms and Ryan

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Watched:  05/21/2022 Format:  BluRay Viewing:  Unknown/ First for Extended Version Decade:  1980's Director:  Sergio Leone For more ways...
Monday, September 20, 2021

PODCAST: "Miller's Crossing" (1990) - A Signal Watch Canon Episode w/ JimD and Ryan

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Watched:  09/09/2021 Format:  BluRay Viewing:  Unknown (well over 30x) Decade:  1990's Director:  Coen Bros. For more ways to listen Jim...
Thursday, July 8, 2021

Neo-Noir Heist Gangster Watch: No Sudden Move (2021)

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Watched:  07/08/2021 Format:  HBOmax Viewing:  First Decade:  2020's Director:  Soderbergh I'm not going to bother with a plot summa...
Saturday, May 29, 2021

Catch-Up Neo-Noir Watch: Layer Cake (2004)

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Watched:  05/28/2021 Format:  Amazon Streaming Viewing:  First Decade:  2000's Director:  Matthew Vaughn For a moment there, Britain was...
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Noir Watch: The Brothers Rico (1957)

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Watched:  05/27/2021 Format:  Noir Alley on TCM Viewing:  First Decade:  1950's Director:   Phil Karlson For gangster and crime film fan...
Monday, March 22, 2021

PODCAST: "The Long Good Friday" (1979) - a SimonUK Canon episode w/ Ryan

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Watched:  03/16/2021 Format:  Criterion Channel Viewing:  Second Decade:  1970's Director:  John MacKenzie For more ways to listen We...
Friday, February 19, 2021

Noir Watch: Johnny Eager (1941)

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Watched:  02/18/2021 Format:  TCM on DVR Viewing:  First Decade:  1940's Director:   Mervyn LeRoy Summing up the plot to Johnny Eager (...
Saturday, January 16, 2021

Noir Watch: The Glass Key (1942)

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Watched:  01/16/2021 Format:  Noir Alley on DVR Viewing:  Not sure Decade:  1940's Director:     Stuart Heisler Measured by the fact I t...