This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of service apply. Panopticon action cinema. Ranges from 1928 to 2017 mubi.com/lists/quentin-tarantinos-favorite-movies. This Franco-Italian thriller was made during a period when Charles Bronson was a huge star in Europe on the back of Once Upon a Time in the West - although, ironically, he didn't quite catch on in his home country until Death Wish was released in 1974. 328 films watched. Director: Fernando Di Leo | Stars: Gastone Moschin, Barbara Bouchet, Mario Adorf, Frank Wolff. His peace is short-lived when Felix Leiter, an old friend from the CIA, turns up asking for help, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology. Sick steenbeck wizardry for the opening car chase, a drizzle here and there of that old psych-interior montage, then the rest is pure sag, at its official nadir when Telly Savalas drinks a cocktail directly out of a coconut and brags about his wealth, to say nothing of the uber-icky revenge-rape. Violent City 1970 ★★★★½ Rewatched Dec 10 , 2020 Filipe Furtado’s review published on Letterboxd: VIOLENT CITY aka THE FAMILY (Italy/France - 1970/1973 US release) Directed by Sergio Sollima. It is a world ruled by technology, where everyone who has the money has metal and wires shoved into them, computers in their brains, and the line between man and machine blurs. Es gibt einen Score von Ennio Morricone, am Drehbuch mitgearbeitet hat Lina Wertmüller - die für Sieben Schönheiten als erste Regisseurin eine Oscar-Nominierung für die beste Regie erhielt - und es gibt zwei ziemlich spannende Sequenzen - unter anderem das Finale in dem ein fahrender Aufzug eine Rolle spielt. Join here. Maybe if the Amazon didn't switch between English and Italy inexplicably I would have liked it netter. One long deterministic suicide run rendered by the relationship between a Langian camera that sees everything and Bronson's body that is always being observed and is allowed no freedom outside following his self-destruction path. Votes: 3,285 IMDb Big Tech's assault on conservative views is ramping up in 2020. James Bond has left active service. He then sets out to take his revenge on the woman and the gang boss who put her up to it. Charles Bronson and Telly Savalas dominate an international cast in this crime thriller from Sergio Sollima. Recs welcome! Violent City is one of the best Charles Bronson films. Menu. Panopticon action cinema. Filipe is using Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists with friends. (R, 109 mins) This causes the car to spin out, and somehow—and I'm pretty sure this is all due to Bronson's candid badassery—it crashes through a wall on an angle it wasn't even travelling in. After being double-crossed by his mistress and barely escaping a murder attempt, a hit-man sets out to take his revenge on the woman and the mob boss who put her up to it. His selection of influential films (mostly predictably violent genre fare—alas, he revealed during his Q&A, the Cinematheque didn’t allow him to include Sixteen Candles) included one big title I’d never seen, John Huston’s Fat City, featuring a young Jeff Bridges as an up-and-coming boxer and Stacy Keach as the over-the-hill counterpart. I’m sick of sorting through concerts, series, and other non-movies. This is a story about a common man who has extraordinary events in his mundane life. Bronson/Ireland are the only thing that distinguish this from being a throwaway Italian thriller of the 70s. About this list: A Freak’s Only Guide To Fucked Up Weird Shit The World Over. One long deterministic suicide run rendered by the relationship between a Langian camera that sees everything and Bronson's body that is always being observed and is allowed no freedom outside following his self-destruction path. ‘Città violenta’ Written by Sauro Scavolini, Gianfranco Galligarich, Lina Wertmuller, Sergio Sollima. 10, There are some well-handled action sequences here, especially the opening car chase and a climactic, near-silent assassination. Add Jacob Smith to that growing list. The plot is minimalistic to say the least and often feels episodic, but Umberto Lenzi's slick direction, enjoyable performances, and the cool music by Franco Micalizzi do make up for its flaws. © Letterboxd Limited. I watched the version that restores the 8 minutes cut out of the American release. Director: Fernando Di Leo | Stars: Gastone Moschin, Barbara Bouchet, Mario Adorf, Frank Wolff. Twitter; Facebook; RSS; Email; About; News; Titles; Features; Designers; Studios; Directed by Sergio Sollima. However, it mostly fails to maintain the momentum it establishes, and the editing throughout is not entirely unwrinkled. Some amazing things Charles Bronson does in Violent City: 1) He hides beneath a car to evade his enemies. Director: Wi Ding Ho | Stars: Jack Kao, Hong-Chi … 2020 Needle Drops. With Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, Jill Ireland, Umberto Orsini. A hitman is double-crossed by his girlfriend and barely escapes a murder attempt. and surrounded by chimes and ticks, there are abysses full of mystery and turns and characters seen and unseen, or both visible and invisible at … All three main set pieces (a major chase in the opening, a hit in the middle and the elevator execution in the climax) are dialogue free, perfect executed and mannered "pure cinema" whose profissionalism (in front and behind the camera) suggest an inhuman logic the entire action is based on. A list of 300 films compiled on Letterboxd, including 357 Magnum (1979), Alien Beasts (1991), The Antwerp Killer (1983), Midnight Killer (1983) and 38 Especial (1992). Movies. Votes: 3,365 This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of service apply. also Morricone. He also works wonders with Bronson, the whole film perfect attuned to its star brute silent stare (needless to say Violent City's long dialogueless scenes are less an affection than an extension of Bronson's…. kind of a perfect film. And it was as annoying to turn them on and off so I just left them on. A trailer for a Unity Game I made, "Violent City", for my BSc Games course. Stellar bookends, an awesome racetrack hit, a proto-Mechanic Bronson, a leathery appearance from Michel Constantin, striking New Orleans locales, but everything between all that only amounts to a twist-heavy and decidedly average Eurocrime from Sollima. It plays kind of like a poor man's The Mechanic or a poorer man's Point Blank, with a dash of Venus in Furs or something similarly hazy sprinkled in. Made by fans in Auckland, New Zealand. It's an arty neo-noir piece, very much in the style of Point Blank. Letterboxd is the best way to track the films you watch and want to watch. A list of 327 films compiled on Letterboxd, including 357 Magnum (1979), Alien Beasts (1991), The Antwerp Killer (1983), Midnight Killer (1983) and 38 Especial (1992). One of Bronson's best. *As of 01st December 2018* "The Letterboxd Top 250 movies, based on the average weighted rating of all Letterboxd users. However this is only the beginning of the plot. Sundance 2020. 1-49 Reservoir Dogs (Django of…, Movies with large amounts of nudity or scenes with nude celebrities, A fine collection of cinema's underbelly, from trashy horror and grindhouse pictures to creature features, nudie cuties, sexploitation...and a few…, Now I know this might seem like a shameless way to get other people to find loads of 1970s crime…, Quentin Tarantino's Favorite films according to MUBI. Film data from TMDb. ... until finally the conflict comes to a violent climax. Which I found the reason for in the IMDB trivia section:      “United Artists cut about eight minutes from the Italian version of this film for its American release. Danke, Frau Wertmüller. Nicholas uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. —Jeff Heston. He then sets out to take his revenge on the woman and the gang boss who put her up to it. We've already seen conservative talker Dennis Prager battle YouTube over his PragerU channel. 1970 Based on the tabletop RPG of the same name, Cyberpunk 2077 drops you into a world of rampant corporatism, urban sprawl, violent crime, and poverty. I chose to remove all stand-up specials, concert films, documentaries, shorts, 'collection listings' and other 'rarities', so only feature length 'dramatized' movies are listed here. The romance remains so affecting, even if it may seem somewhat bland and morally offensive on a descriptive bias, it gains so much potency when allied with Sollima's careful editing and organization of Bronson's streams of consciousness. Doesn't go anywhere near as hard as Death Wish, to state the obvious. Action, Crime, Thriller (1970) 100 minutes ~ Color Original Title: Città violenta Alternate Title: The Family A hitman is double-crossed by his girlfriend and barely escapes a murder attempt. A hitman is double-crossed by his girlfriend and barely escapes a murder attempt. One of the most popular reviews ever written on Letterboxd, a social media site for cinephiles, was posted about David Fincher’s Fight Club in early 2018. Jill Ireland's femme fatale is in the top tier of 70s mysoginist roles (which says something), but she is also the closest the movie has to a Sollima's stand-in at least in so far as Violent City punishing nature. It offers eye-catching vistas of verdant meadows, ominous forests, tranquil lakeside homes, perilous cliffs, a cloister hidden in the mountains, a walled but lively city burned to the ground. The web site critiques movies from an unabashedly … Upgrade to a Letterboxd Pro account to add your favorite services to this list—including any service and country pair listed on JustWatch—and to enable one-click filtering by all your favorites. This is an odd one, a sloppy ramble of double-crosses, vague motivations, and Bronsonian mumbling. About this list: A Freak’s Only Guide To Fucked Up Weird Shit The World Over. About this list: A Freak’s Only Guide To Fucked Up Weird Shit The World Over. Italienischer Kriminalfilm von Sergio Sollima der mit Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, Jill Ireland und Michel Constantin international besetzt und unter anderem in New Orleans gedreht wurde. The … Jill Ireland's femme fatale is in the top tier of 70s mysoginist roles (which says something), but she is also the closest the movie has to a Sollima's stand-in at least in so far as Violent City punishing nature. The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate. Cuz someone thought it was a good idea to take on Chaz Bronson?? The story by Dino Maiuri and Massimo De Rita incorporates several timeframes and bookended by some solidly directed action set pieces, including an opening car chase sequence which inevitably recalls Peter Yates’ Bullitt. Proto-Kersey revenge joint with mild case of sunstroke. I found…, Andrew Liverod 11,871 films 588 17 Edit. I've always been fascinating by the title as Violent City mix of seduction, betrayal and revenge are pitched at such personal terms that seem to have nothing to do with the New Orleans setting, but Sollima's camera has an large scope and attention to geography that keep connecting the operatic action to some larger unseen mechanism. Another thing Charles Bronson does in Violent City that is the opposite of amazing: sort of a eurosleaze LE SAMOURAI. As these scenes were never looped in English, they appear on the DVD in Italian language with English subtitles, while the rest of the film is in English.”. All the films I could find that QT uses as reference points in his films. Dec Project Veritas' James O'Keefe just got suspended from Twitter under murky circumstances. © Letterboxd Limited. The Libertarian film critic oversees Society Reviews. The car then explodes into a ridiculous ball of flames, and he fucking survives, remaining stable enough to crawl from beneath the raging inferno to kill a bunch of people. 344 films watched. All three main set pieces (a major chase in the opening, a hit in the middle and the elevator execution in…. VIOLENT NAPLES offers a couple of well-orchestrated chase scenes, with many POV shots and unusual camera angles. 2020. Ennio twangs up a storm. Bronson plays Jeff a hitman who is betrayed and left for dead. It is the 13th largest city in California and the 63rd largest city in the United States. Anything with more than 1,000 views on Letterboxd that’s longer…. Ennio Morricone's score is moody stuff and there's an enjoyable supporting role for Telly Savalas, who gets to spout much in the way of hardboiled dialogue as a mob boss. Mainly for the brutal treatment of Jill Ireland's character. A showcase for Bronson's sturdy presence, never so expressive, through a monumental action operetta. A June 23, 2020 New York Times article titled, “Gun Violence Spikes in N.Y.C., Intensifying Debate Over Policing” states, “The city logged 125 shootings in the first three weeks of the month, more than double the number recorded over the same period last year, police data show. 1) Films missing are mainly hardcore porn and TV shows (Hitchcock mysteries namely). The film depicts the protagonist's turns of events in three eras, three seasons, three nights, in the same city, as told with reverse chronology. Best of Berlinale 2021. Cast: Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, Jill Ireland, Umberto Orsini, Michel Constantin, Ray Sanders, Benjamin Lev, Peter Dane, George Savalas, Goffredo Unger. Letterboxd top 250. Popular this week; About Letterboxd; Create an account ← Letterboxd.com; Social film reviews and discovery. Every movie reviewed by the independent fanzine. I was also put back from the abrupt changing of dialogue in English to Italian that happened often throughout. Céline Sciamma does it again, a demented, anthropological A-to-Z of Romanian pornography takes the Golden Bear, and Indigenous sci-fi breaks new ground as Letterboxd’s Festiville team awards its Berlinale bouquets for 2021. Also, the silliness of Telly Salvalas rfering to himself as an old man didn't help. A list of 328 films compiled on Letterboxd, including 357 Magnum (1979), Alien Beasts (1991), The Antwerp Killer (1983), Midnight Killer (1983) and 38 Especial (1992). Lena uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. Favorites: Juno (2007), Evil Dead (2013), Elephant (2003), Bound (1996). Peppered with God-tier location photography and some pure cinema/dialogue-free setpieces. Oh and the version I watched on Amazon Prime randomly switches between subtitles and dubbing! About Letterboxd; Create an account ← Letterboxd.com; Social film reviews and discovery. It's a brooding and slow-paced suspenser established on a double-cross which is unnecessarily contorted and accounts Jeff Heston, a hitman betrayed by his girlfriend and his subsequent retaliation. A conflicted hitman, a femme fatale, a shady lawyer and a charming mob boss(a terrific Telly Savalas) in a deadly struggle for power. Great Morricone soundtrack, a kinetic (and unfortunately green screen heavy) chase scene, and a whopper of a dark ending... but man, it was a pretty unpleasant watch. Director: Edward Yang | Stars: Chen Chang, Lisa Yang, Kuo-Chu Chang, Elaine Jin. 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After narrowly avoiding an assassination in the Virgin Islands, jaded hitman Charles Bronson hits the streets and swamps and wharfs of New Orleans trying to track down the culprits, all the while getting endlessly suckered by multitasking femme fatale Jill Ireland. These scenes are re-inserted in the DVD but are heard in the Italian language with English subtitles. The complete and uncut version of this film on DVD restores all scenes which had been omitted from all earlier English language prints. Charles Bronson Telly Savalas Jill Ireland Michel Constantin Umberto Orsini Ray Saunders Benjamin Lev Peter Dane George Savalas Beryl Salvatore Robert Spafford Goffredo Unger, Lina Wertmüller Sergio Sollima Sauro Scavolini Massimo De Rita Dino Maiuri Gianfranco Calligarich, Cidade Violenta, The Family, Den brutale by, Cité de la violence, Den brutala staden, 100 mins   But outside the handful of terrific visuals, the story is a bore for the most part. 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