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Post by sostie on May 15, 2020 23:11:01 GMT
Lee & Arby from TV series UTOPIA. Quite possibly my all time faves
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Post by marianne48 on May 16, 2020 0:42:06 GMT
While I'm not much of a fan of hitman movies, one that I really enjoyed is You Kill Me (2007), a dark comedy starring Ben Kingsley and Tea Leoni.
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Post by london777 on May 16, 2020 1:36:56 GMT
...the gal who played the lead in MS .45... As I understand it, she just killed men randomly. which would not qualify as a contract killer or hitwoman.
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Post by london777 on May 21, 2020 22:33:32 GMT
The original title of the Belgian police thriller The Memory of a Killer (2003) dir: Erik Van Looy was De Zaak Alzheimer ( The Alzheimer Case). Not hard to see why they thought up another title for overseas release. It has two protagonists, Eric Vincke (played by Koen De Bouw) a dedicated and honest policeman, and Angelo Ledda (Jan Decleir), a professional hit-man who is dying of Alzhemiers, and the narrative alternates between them, with the killer always one step ahead of the cop. It has all the elements familiar from Michael Mann thrillers, but the Flemish dialog and Antwerp location shooting would have given it a fresh feel, plus of course the Alzheimers angle which I do not remember having come across in a thriller before. I say "would have" because a potentially decent movie is ruined by gimmicky camerawork, more evocative of epilepsy than Alzheimers, and a banal and intrusive score. Events revolve around the unmasking of a paedophile ring extending to the highest levels of government, and of course there was just such a case being investigated in Belgium when this movie was made and released, though the film-makers have fallen over themselves to disclaim any actual parallels.
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Post by london777 on Jun 11, 2020 4:36:49 GMT
Брат (Brother) (1997) dir: Aleksey Balabanov was a ground-breaking Russian crime movie and I strongly recommend it. As usual with Russian sub-titles we miss any subtleties of dialog, but our understanding of what is going on is not hindered (and there is plenty going on in this fast-moving movie). Danila Bagrov (Sergey Bodrov) is a young guy who is drifting aimlessly and getting into trouble after completing his military service. His mother packs him off to his brother who is purportedly "doing well" in Leningrad. In fact his brother is a contract killer, who passes his next, and most dangerous, assignment on to his young brother. Further hits become necessary.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Aug 31, 2020 9:38:26 GMT
Ivanna Sakhno as Nadedja, an assassin who gets confused when she's informed that her targets are 'two dumb American women' (as evidently she requires a more specific description) in the movie The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018).
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Post by OldAussie on Aug 31, 2020 10:58:26 GMT
"Hitting" seems to be an equal opportunity employer. Bridget Fonda in the American remake of Nikita -
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Post by Stammerhead on Aug 31, 2020 12:43:13 GMT
The assassin in Get Carter is appropriately unknown.
From Wikipedia....
Carl Howard's character of the assassin, "J", is only identified by the initial on his ring, in his only film role, and an appropriate mystery surrounds his real identity. His name does not appear on the credits of some prints. Mike Hodges explained that Howard was an extra in his TV film Rumour, and the director gave him a line to say, but another extra was wrongly credited. Hodges promised he would make it up to him and cast him in Carter, but his name was missed off some of the original prints. When the film credits were printed in the Radio Times and TV Times, Howard was also trimmed. Hodges said in 2002 "Carl and credits don't seem destined for each other".
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Post by london777 on Aug 31, 2020 12:57:09 GMT
The assassin in Get Carter is appropriately unknown. From Wikipedia.... Carl Howard's character of the assassin, "J", is only identified by the initial on his ring, in his only film role, and an appropriate mystery surrounds his real identity. His name does not appear on the credits of some prints. Mike Hodges explained that Howard was an extra in his TV film Rumour, and the director gave him a line to say, but another extra was wrongly credited. Hodges promised he would make it up to him and cast him in Carter, but his name was missed off some of the original prints. When the film credits were printed in the Radio Times and TV Times, Howard was also trimmed. Hodges said in 2002 "Carl and credits don't seem destined for each other". So glad you posted that. His identity has always intrigued me. At one time I wondered if he was the same person who played a hitman is Hodges' other decent movie, Black Rainbow (1989). Though with a substantial role, he may also be uncredited.
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Post by Stammerhead on Aug 31, 2020 13:24:08 GMT
The assassin in Get Carter is appropriately unknown. From Wikipedia.... Carl Howard's character of the assassin, "J", is only identified by the initial on his ring, in his only film role, and an appropriate mystery surrounds his real identity. His name does not appear on the credits of some prints. Mike Hodges explained that Howard was an extra in his TV film Rumour, and the director gave him a line to say, but another extra was wrongly credited. Hodges promised he would make it up to him and cast him in Carter, but his name was missed off some of the original prints. When the film credits were printed in the Radio Times and TV Times, Howard was also trimmed. Hodges said in 2002 "Carl and credits don't seem destined for each other". So glad you posted that. His identity has always intrigued me. At one time I wondered if he was the same person who played a hitman is Hodges' other decent movie, Black Rainbow (1989). Though with a substantial role, he may also be uncredited. The character’s even on some of the posters.
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Post by divtal on Aug 31, 2020 17:55:21 GMT
For a comic "change of pace," Bryan Brown is delightful as a hit man in Blame it on the Bellboy. (1992) He's sent to Venice by "the organization," to kill a Mafia Don. But, an inept hotel bellboy (Bronson Pinchot), confuses his final instructions with information that is sent to other hotel guests.
Apart from Brown, who's Australian, and American Pinchot, it's mostly a British cast; Dudley Moore, Richard Griffiths, Patsy Kensit, Alison Steadman, and others.
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Post by bravomailer on Sept 1, 2020 0:37:57 GMT
Lee Van Cleef's character in For A Few Dollars More is a "bounty killer". “Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared.”
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Post by london777 on Oct 26, 2021 20:31:01 GMT
In Ashes of Time Redux (1994, reworked 2008) dir: Wong Kar-Wai, the central character is a 'booking agent' for professional assassins. Since he lives on the edge of the Gobi Desert, business is not brisk. We only see two assassins get commissioned and one (perhaps both, I cannot remember) by-passes the agent's services and accepts the job direct from the client for a payment of one egg. I hope the agent did not grieve over missing out on 10% of an egg. If you think that all sounds weird, you ain't seen nothing yet. The story of the genesis and making of this movie is more interesting than what passes for the plot of the film, and it all deserves a better discussion than I can give it here. Suffice to say that it rivals Apocalypse Now and Fitzcarraldo for the director's bloody-minded determination to shoot an ambitious movie in the most unpropitious circumstances.
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Post by Stammerhead on Oct 26, 2021 20:50:20 GMT
How about Marcel Bozzuffi in The French Connection? He was a support character in the film but ruled the poster.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Oct 27, 2021 10:07:06 GMT
Mark Dacascos as Yo Hinomura in Christophe Gans' live-action anime adaptation CRYING FREEMAN (1995). Stylish stuff, and the whole one tear thing is sooo sexy.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Oct 27, 2021 10:22:23 GMT
Sappensly (Robert Webber) and Quill (Gig Young) - who are also lovers, in Sam Peckinpah's one-of-a-kind classic BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA (1974).
The following sequence is well worth watching in its entirety, but for the impatient among you, the Webber and Young characters enter the scene at around the 3 min, 23 second mark.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Oct 27, 2021 10:38:24 GMT
Writer-director Allen Baron as Frank Bono - a role Peter Falk nearly played, in the brutal, dark hearted low budget cult classic BLAST OF SILENCE (1961). "They all hate the gun they hire. When people look at you, baby boy Frankie Bono, they see death. Death across the counter."
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Post by timshelboy on Oct 28, 2021 18:39:28 GMT
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Post by manfromplanetx on Oct 28, 2021 23:20:38 GMT
Frank Sinatra plays his first violent heavy role as hired assassin John Baron in Suddenly (1954) Dir. Lewis Allen Ruthless Baron will get $500,000 for assassinating the American president, who via rail will soon be passing through a small Californian town. Having taken over a prominent household vantage point, the hostages within try to avert the hit by appealing to Baron’s patriotism, but it is clear that he has none, he has been hired to kill the president for money...
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Post by manfromplanetx on Oct 29, 2021 22:44:49 GMT
Sharpshooter Nikki Arane (Timothy Carey) is hired for an unusual hit... in The Killing (1954) Dir. Stanley Kubrick
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