APR 2012

Brown and Beautiful: Jim Brown Being Awesome Movies



This April we're going to Brown-town. Jim Brown-town, that is. I'll start things off with a double feature to give ya more Brown for you're buck.

Apr 3rd: Slaughter/Slaughter's Big Rip-Off
Apr 10th: Rio Conchos
Apr 17th: The Slams
Apr 24th: The Split



We aren't actually watching '100 Rifles', which is what this publicity still is from, but it's such a rad picture of Raquel Welch and Jim Brown that I threw it up here for ya.

MAR 27th 2012

Hickey & Boggs

Al Hickey and Frank Boggs are tired, broke, alcoholic detectives approached by a lawyer to find his girlfriend who has gone missing.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068698/

Trailer

Culp, Cosby and a script by Walter Hill.

MAR 20th 2012

The Last Run (1971)

A former getaway driver from Chicago has retired to a peaceful life in a Portugese fishing village. He is asked to pull off one last job driving a dangerous crook and his girlfriend to France.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067329/

MAR 13th 2012

The Outfit

When Macklin is released from prison he learns that his brother was killed for their robbing of a syndicate operated bank. His friend Cody helps him gratify his thirst for revenge.

This one's pretty Duvall. Joe Don Baker, Karen Black and Timothy Carey under one movie-roof?! And it's directed by John Flynn of Rolling Thunder and Out For Justice fame.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071960/

MAR 6th 2012

The Nickel Ride

Cooper, a small-time criminal, manages several warehouses in Los Angeles that the mob use to stash their stolen goods. Cooper's superior Carl decides to have cocky cowboy button man Turner keep an eye on him.

It's got Rolling Thunders' Linda Haynes, it's got Bo Hopkins, it's a no-brainer - duh!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073451/


Trailer

MAR 2012

Early 70s Crime Mish-Mash

Mar 6th : The Nickel Ride
Mar 13th: The Outfit
Mar 20th: The Last Run
Mar 27th: Hickey and Boggs



No clever title, not much of a unifying thread. All these movies were made from 1971 to 1973. They all involve crime, criminals or private eyes. Some of them have that existential malaise and fatalism so prevalent in the genre in this era, others are straight ahead action films... the only thing they really have in common is that I wanna watch them this month.

Bonus Field Trip: Thomas Crown Affair/The Getaway - Sunday, April 1st @ the Egyptian Theater

http://www.americancinemathequecalendar.com/content/the-thomas-crown-affair-the-getaway