Near as I can recall, outside film noir, there isn’t a film like Buffalo ’66. The protagonist, played by writer/director/composer Gallo, isn’t just unlikable, he’s comically unlikable. I can very easily see the film remade with Will Ferrell in the lead. It’s like a Will Ferrell comedic tragedy, only it’s not so tragic.
I don’t really […]
Entries Tagged as 'Mickey Rourke'
Buffalo ’66 (1998, Vincent Gallo)
February 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Tagged: Lions Gate Films· Mickey Rourke· Vincent Gallo· ★★★
Killshot (2008, John Madden)
June 7th, 2009 · No Comments
It’s hard to say whether Killshot falls apart because of the filmmakers or because of the source material. Killshot changes its mind about what to deliver every three minutes. The script can’t decide on a main character–is it Mickey Rourke’s hit man or is it Diane Lane’s woman in distress or is it Thomas Jane’s […]
Tagged: Elmore Leonard· Hal Holbrook· Hossein Amini· John Madden· Mickey Rourke· Rosario Dawson· The Weinstein Company· Thomas Jane· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
The Wrestler (2008, Darren Aronofsky)
January 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Maybe Darren Aronofsky actually gets it. As The Wrestler started, I marveled at what must have been Aronofsky’s longest shots to date until they kept getting longer and longer. His direction of the film is incredibly simple–put the camera on the actors, occasionally do an establishing shot. No medium shots. Long shot to close-up. The […]
Tagged: Darren Aronofsky· Fox Searchlight Pictures· Mickey Rourke· Robert D. Siegel· ★★★★
Bullet (1996, Julien Temple)
August 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments
The tragedy of Mickey Rourke is not his failed mainstream career. Rather, it’s how he’s never been able to get any filmmakers of note involved in his vanity projects. Bullet’s an incredibly ambitious, sensitive film… or, with the right production team, it would have been. What remains hints at what could have been–the film’s a […]
Tagged: Adrien Brody· Bruce Rubenstein· Julien Temple· Mickey Rourke· New Line Cinema· ★
Sin City (2005, Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez), the extended version
January 13th, 2006 · 1 Comment
When Sin City came out in the theater, three people told me to go see it. One of them had an opinion of film I respect, one had an opinion of it I–at the time–had no argument with, and one had an opinion I most definitely did not respect. But I’d read interviews with Robert […]
Tagged: Benicio Del Toro· Bruce Willis· Dimension Films· Frank Miller· Josh Hartnett· Michael Madsen· Mickey Rourke· Quentin Tarantino· Robert Rodriguez· Rosario Dawson· ★½
The Rainmaker (1997, Francis Ford Coppola)
January 4th, 2006 · No Comments
The Rainmaker’s got some beautiful stuff in it. My history with it is somewhat sorted… I discovered it on DVD, then abandoned it–and have now rediscovered it. I can’t remember what my last problem with it was–probably the same as my current one–but I was selling DVDs and needed cash.
It’s not perfect and has some […]
Tagged: Danny DeVito· Danny Glover· Francis Ford Coppola· John Grisham· Matt Damon· Michael Herr· Mickey Rourke· Paramount Pictures· Roy Scheider· Teresa Wright· ★★★
