Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Top Shelf Films No.1 - Homicide



a.k.a. When Mamet was still brilliant.

Maybe it was my first conscious exposure to Mamet's work (saw The Verdict before this), but this is my idea of a perfect Mamet film. I enjoyed it more than House of Games. Great dialogue, intriguing premise, the flawed characters were well portrayed and rythmically coherent. Why no decently put together dvd? All that's left of this film is a piss poor Region 2 release that's cropped and poorly mastered.

Joe Mantegna was at his peak as an actor, the Mametspeak was less stylised than it was in House of Games and his delivery was effortless.

I could hit repeat watch it all day...

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