This romance/crime/comedy/drama/other remains, a quarter century later, my definitive personal image of Hong Kong.
Category Archives: Crime
POINT BREAK (1991)
This is a very silly but somehow a very good action movie about robbing banks, surfing, skydiving, and many other things. At one point Patrick Swayze throws a dog at Keanu Reeves.
BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967)
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Watch Party of this seminal 1967 counterculture classic about Depression-era bank robbers.
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
Perhaps the ultimate Film Noir, about two murderers who are not nearly as smart as they think they are.
TOUKI BOUKI (1973)
A movie about a couple on the run after a crime spree. Seen that one before? Not like this.
THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)
The car chase is justly famous, but these days its cops with a “shoot first ask questions later” attitude are extremely hard to root for.
RAISING ARIZONA (1987)
A live action cartoon from the Coen Brothers about Nicolas Cage kidnapping babies, but for love. A personal favorite.
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)
Sidney Poitier has to solve a murder in a small southern town that hates him. A great social movie but kind of a blah procedural.
THE GODFATHER PART II (1974)
This all-encompassing sequel involves at least two separate movies that never quite meet.
THE GODFATHER (1972)
Francis Ford Coppola’s mafia epic is now fixed in American culture.
