Directed masterfully by Sydney Lumet, it’s tense, blackly comedic, surprisingly sensitive to LGBTQI issues, and a richly textured showcase of New York City. Screen titan Al Pacino was midway through his 1970s run of all-time greats, here turning in a typically nuanced performance as a wrong-headed robber. Richard Linklater made his name with “hang out” movies, and this is one of the best-100 minutes spent chilling with characters who are always fun to be around.Īnother classic which led to countless imitators, this set the template for every bank holdup/hostage flick to come. Plenty of other familiar names are there too (Matthew McConaughey being the role that stuck in the cultural imagination), all making up a woozy tableau covering one night in 1976. He uses pioneering digital cinematography to showcase Los Angeles and delivers a one-crazy-night showstopper.īen Affleck is hilarious in this movie, and he’s wayyy down the cast list. That’s Michael Mann for you, deploying typically muscular filmmaking to bolster a no-nonsense story of hapless hero meeting hitman. One of Tom Cruise’s best performances (please play a villain again Tom!) and one of Jamie Foxx’s too-not to mention the appearance by a scene-stealing Jada Pinkett-Smith. Alicia Silverstone is a force of nature, little baby Paul Rudd is preternaturally charming, and director Amy Heckerling showed she’d retained her knack for skewering the youths, after helming Fast Times at Ridgemont High over a decade earlier. But it’s Scott’s woozy, dreamlike tone, Vangelis’ iconic score, the revolutionary special effects, and of course Harrison Ford’s lead performance, that make Blade Runner an all-timer.Ī sleeper hit which became a cult classic and now serves as a fascinating snapshot of nineties culture, Clueless reimagines Jane Austin’s Emma, while poking fun at Hollywood, materialism, and teen films. So many moments are permanently etched in popular culture, from the billboard geisha to chopsticks, origami and tears in rain. Ridley Scott’s 1982 behemoth set the template for dystopian sci-fi for decades to come, and still feels fresh over forty years later.
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