jongordon.bsky.social
Confirmed fan of slow films, fast novels and music with a good, steady beat. Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/7kbX
👤 Joined on 21 October 2023
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@jongordon.bsky.socialThe Jericho Mile is basically a perfect film. A TV movie that feels nothing of the sort. It is nothing like Michael Mann ever directed again, but still full of that enticing weird self-destructive masculine existential angst that Mann is obsessed with.
Show PostYes, I couldn't work out what to say about a lot of it, so I just didn't mention it! The racist stuff was the top of that list.
Show PostHa! I couldn't decide what score to give it. It should be really engaging and it has some good scenes, but it really is a mess of tone and execution...though on the Burt Young sex fantasy alone it deserves 4 stars. What a moment.
Show PostMenahem Golan's Jewish-American slice of life is, on paper, a winning proposition: put-upon Jewish deli owner (Elliot Gould) in Brooklyn dreams of getting out from underneath the thumb of his father and his shiksa fashion-model girlfriend by buying his own restaurant in midtown Manhattan.
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