Wall
Displaying all 12 wall posts
Chris Jones
12Aug11
Where's all the praise for this coming from? I thought it was really hammy and cliched, personally, and while there were some interesting things about Frankie none of them got enough screen time to really amount to much. It all felt very by-the-numbers.
Graveyard Poet
19Mar11
One of the greatest independent films--set the stage for the new age of film noir and gangster films and heavily influenced Martin Scorsese (as can be seen in Mean Streets). Perfect movie to watch during the Christmas season when you're in a lonely place.
ruby stevens
2Mar11
the narration is prolly the most annoying ever. the ending and larry tucker are great. don't cross baby boy frankie bono!
Robert Regan likes this
andre
2Jan10
perfect film for my xmas this year. relate to a killer feeling like one of the walking dead, unable to cross the boundary to the living, to socialization. even split over whether he wants to or not. xmas acts as contrasting influence, as well as rhyming killer Bono's existential drone with the sleepwalk of the "suckers." Baron seems like a genetic hybrid of deniro and george c. scott
Jazzaloha
8Dec09
An American made film noir with European sensibility--the existential theme, rather than a entertaining narrative, is at the heart of the film. A film noir equivalent of *Carnival of Souls*. Given the low-budget and the lack of name filmmakers, these films are small miracles and that's one of the big reasons they warrant the criterion treatment.
Robert W Peabody III
3Nov09
Blast of Silence (1961) DIR Allen Baron SCR Allen Baron 77 Min Like a really bad hunting trip, where the lonely hunter has a pervasive conviction that things wont turn out as planned. 11/10
Zack McDaniel
16Oct09
definitly one of the most well crafted film noirs, and easily my favorite films of all time.
Christopher Smith
11Mar09
Offbeat B-movie film noir plays more like a European art film than a Hollywood crime drama, especially with its nihilistic ending. Strong performances and authentic, gritty big city atmosphere - though the atmosphere was somewhat more compelling than the actual plot. Very effective jazz score.
lonewolf
13Jan09
77 minutes of respite. A low budget masterpiece. Narrated by the blacklisted Lionel Stander/Waldo Salt in the rarely used 2nd Person Narrative. Most amazing scene is where Frank Bono is staring down into a Catholic school playground and the children are exiting the yard in the shape of a Swastika!?!