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Written by James M. Tate / 9/03/2021 / No comments / ben bolt , bruce dern , diane lane , drama , eighties , fifties-era , gambling , lee grant , matt dillon , neo noir , thriller , tommy lee jones

MATT DILLON SHOOTS CRAP IN 'THE BIG TOWN' WITH DIANE LANE

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBReMcayiqFtpm_2rIxEy1Ume2F6pTFYHG5Bx-8rIXmtJR654T2lfCBQqazsVIyXvcAnmcCbTGihtrXpbtenxM0goO-0wpFpFyNL0E7yLutdpcbhkAC8_er1ZCSioLGmIyY66__-gsra7FGbbGUW9fqCe91IBlb2TBfc0GPziSXgQL8y6nOAeW5SZ4kSqc/s2048/619331616_1589633489349646_2416514309147265633_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1032" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBReMcayiqFtpm_2rIxEy1Ume2F6pTFYHG5Bx-8rIXmtJR654T2lfCBQqazsVIyXvcAnmcCbTGihtrXpbtenxM0goO-0wpFpFyNL0E7yLutdpcbhkAC8_er1ZCSioLGmIyY66__-gsra7FGbbGUW9fqCe91IBlb2TBfc0GPziSXgQL8y6nOAeW5SZ4kSqc/s16000/619331616_1589633489349646_2416514309147265633_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Diane Lane in THE BIG TOWN Year: 1987 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>With a deliberately sparse-pulpy title, THE BIG TOWN is set during the 1950's... 1957 to be exact... and Dillon really looks the part, a kind of throwback B&W-suited actor even in this neo noir's neon green and pink tinged color scheme, playing a young lucky dice player who miraculously hits the right numbers
 each and every time, giving the movie a sort of unintentional TWILIGHT 
ZONE science-fiction vibe, or something delving into fantasy... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And for a vehicle so 
otherwise grounded and somewhat cliche, predictable and even mainstream, that's alright since Matt's
 urgency (and the film's suspense) doesn't rely on winning but surviving
 the pool of gambling hoodlum sharks who, from Tommy Lee Jones as an underground backroom
 dealer to a mysterious backstory Tom Skerritt, are out to (or seem out to) stop the endless and 
bizarre winning streak...</p><span></span>

ben bolt, bruce dern, diane lane, drama, eighties, fifties-era, gambling, lee grant, matt dillon, neo noir, thriller, tommy lee jones

MATT DILLON SHOOTS CRAP IN 'THE BIG TOWN' WITH DIANE LANE

Diane Lane in THE BIG TOWN Year: 1987 Rating: ***1/2 With a deliberately sparse-pulpy title, THE BIG TOWN is set during the 1950's... 19...

NATIONAL LAMPOON'S MOVIE MADNESS HAS MOVED (BACK TO)

<a href="CLICK HERE FOR MOVIE MADNESS REVIEW">CLICK HERE FOR THE REVIEW OF MOVIE MADNESS/GOES TO THE MOVIES</a><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAmjYuU_NXRDILK7DrTuq1FSL8ePx9enzzrvGVpn_e12U5KUWycHXorrL2F0b3rdLS3Bs8jytiVHi0aHCVm6VTXzfINtJ0SGRwuwgmpS7dEPs2VXnBOB6gRoK1dORPkgzdMD7ORQatquzvflQ7nse9ZkkVNDTvyrc2U40hc2q2ayRsegdI9jUoG1z5jW4R/s1618/Screen%20Shot%202025-02-05%20at%2010.34.09%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="858" data-original-width="1618" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAmjYuU_NXRDILK7DrTuq1FSL8ePx9enzzrvGVpn_e12U5KUWycHXorrL2F0b3rdLS3Bs8jytiVHi0aHCVm6VTXzfINtJ0SGRwuwgmpS7dEPs2VXnBOB6gRoK1dORPkgzdMD7ORQatquzvflQ7nse9ZkkVNDTvyrc2U40hc2q2ayRsegdI9jUoG1z5jW4R/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-02-05%20at%2010.34.09%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2012/04/national-lampoons-movie-madness.html">CLICK HERE FOR MOVIE MADNESS REVIEW</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br />

ann dusenberry, anthology, candy clark, christopher lloyd, comedy, diane lane, eighties, henry jaglom, peter riegert, quirky, richard widmark, robbie benson, robert culp, teresa ganzel

NATIONAL LAMPOON'S MOVIE MADNESS HAS MOVED (BACK TO)

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Written by James M. Tate / 3/14/2017 / No comments / andrew mccarthy , bruce dern , charles bukowski , diane lane , eighties , francis ford coppola , harry northup , matt dillon , neo noir , nineties , remake , retrospective , seventies , suspense , tens , thriller , zeroes

PROANTAGONIST: THE ECLECTIC NEO NOIR OF MATT DILLON

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Matt Dillon in the Noir remake A KISS BEFORE DYING</u></td></tr>
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<u>THE RUMBLING OUTSIDER</u>: Matt Dillon as the kind of face that seems perfectly suited for Black & White, even in color...
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Rumble Fish Blues</u></td></tr>
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For example, when he looks into the hospital mirror during the riskiest of many risky heists in DRUGSTORE COWBOY, his slick black hair contrasts dramatically to pale white skin and then, with the turn of his head, the blood red along his forehead accents the fevered heat of the moment... The sudden contrast is reminiscent of the actual Chinese fighter fish i.e. RUMBLE FISH, the only colored objects (red) in an otherwise completely B&W film, steals the picture in Coppola's first of the two S.E. Hinton collaborations beginning with THE OUTSIDERS as the James Dean/Marlon Brando hybrid: A rogue rebel completely idolized by the two young central characters played by C. Thomas Howell and Ralph Macchio... But to everyone beyond the gang, being a outright criminal as well as a charmer, if anyone of the cast of future teen heartthrobs (including Tom Cruise and Patrick Swayze) makes this otherwise teen gang melodrama, it's his character, Dallas Winston, who, unlike his ambitious RUMBLE FISH little brother character, Rusty James, doesn't want to be a leader <i>or</i> a follower...<br>
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And, behind the scenes according to the Coppola commentary track of THE OUTSIDERS; while it took days, even weeks, for some of the other actors to be cast, Dillon walked in and got the job right away (both RUMBLE FISH and OUTSIDERS will be reviewed on their own territory with an upcoming "Coppola Does Hinton, Twice"). The former OVER THE EDGE "post child actor" was fourteen in his first role in 1979 where his bike riding, chain smoking Ritchie White is the Dallas Winston of the suburban outskirts, again leading the underdogs (whether he's present or not) to victory. But it was MY BODYGUARD the following year that proved Dillon could really act, and it took the second Coppola/Hinton flick to underline that fact...<br>

andrew mccarthy, bruce dern, charles bukowski, diane lane, eighties, francis ford coppola, harry northup, matt dillon, neo noir, nineties, remake, retrospective, seventies, suspense, tens, thriller, zeroes

PROANTAGONIST: THE ECLECTIC NEO NOIR OF MATT DILLON

Matt Dillon in the Noir remake A KISS BEFORE DYING THE RUMBLING OUTSIDER : Matt Dillon as the kind of face that seems perfectly suited...

NATIONAL LAMPOON'S MOVIE MADNESS/GOES TO THE MOVIES

ann dusenberry, anthology, candy clark, christopher lloyd, comedy, diane lane, eighties, henry jaglom, peter riegert, quirky, richard widmark, robby benson, robert culp, teresa ganzel

NATIONAL LAMPOON'S MOVIE MADNESS/GOES TO THE MOVIES

Ann Dusenberry in National Lampoon's Movie Madness aka Goes to the Movies Year: 1982 Rating: **1/2 As their second feature, trailing...

FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA DIRECTS THE COTTON CLUB

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 1984 cast: Richard Gere, Diane Lane, James Remar, Gregory Hines rating: *1/2</td></tr>
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If there’s one person dumber than the usually unattractive tough powerful guy who insists his beautiful girlfriend hang out with a younger, more charming guy... in this case Richard Gere’s Lucky, a talented musician... it’s that good looking guy who goes along with it and eventually, like in every film with this premise, falls deeply and hopelessly in love.<br />
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Well that’s the bottom line in this lavish depression-era timepiece directed by Francis Ford Coppola, produced by THE GODFATHER honcho Robert Evans and co-written by Mario Puzo. The scenes involving the gangsters, including a bloody fight establishing the Edward G. Robinson-looking James Remar’s Dutch Shultz as a man <i>not</i> to be reckoned with, lacks the vibe of being part of the action, or inside the situation, like the stuff Coppola used to provide us.<br />
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And with so many performers, like Gregory Hines and his brother tap dancing at the titular COTTON CLUB (a meeting place for high-rolling gangsters) and Richard Gere’s actual Cornet playing, you’d think Coppola would have made a documentary centering on gin-soaked jazz instead of mobsters. Because through the pallid romance between Gere and mob moll Diane Lane as Remar’s jealousy mounts, and Gregory Hine’s annoyingly stubborn courtship with a gorgeous singer, only the music stands out.<br />
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But even that gets tiresome without a worthy plot or interesting characters. So, like many of Coppola's movies post-APOCALYPSE NOW, this is all dressed up with nowhere to go. Yet despite the flaws, Diane Lane plays the part with gusto... and she was 18 years old!

diane lane, eighties, francis ford coppola, gangster, james remar, nicolas cage, richard gere, robert evans, suspense