Blast of Silence (1961)

🎵 Deep inside I know I've died so I'm dressed in black all the time. 🎵 A bleak, no-budget noir procedural where every miserable, street-grime detail of what killing people for money is like—and the brutal, hateful psychological state/philosophy of alienation necessary…

Josh Lewis

for my money, the greatest “christmas in new york” film not only because it deliberately eschews the colors of the holiday for saturated black and white but that it puts the viewer onto the city’s streets at the busiest time of the year and asks us to spend those moments…

Justin LaLiberty

Genuinely hate myself for sleeping on this one until now. Like a disgusting and terminally depressed American version of Le Samourai. A movie about being sad and alone on Christmas in the loneliest and saddest densely-populated city of all, New York. Feels like a Michael…

Will Sloan

exquisitely bleak noir nihilism. could watch this a thousand times and not get bored of it.

Jamelle Bouie

I read somewhere that some think of this as the last true film noir, which I couldn’t tell, as, well, I know many were released years after, with many reaching cult and iconic status. It’s also often been cited as part of this new wave in NY called New American…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

Like The Killer but way better bc it doesn’t have any music by The Smiths in it

Hesse

Stumbled upon this indie noir about a hitman in professional crisis, without knowing anything and yeah, I had a good time. It clearly inspired many of the noirs you've seen and loved and while it's not the best watch ever, for an indie, it looks phenomenal and it's a good…

MrPPeeps

You like the second person voice-over. You like it starting like David Copperfield with the hero being born, a blast from silence through a dark screaming tunnel into the light. You love the visit to the Big Ralphie, the obese gun seller with his sewer rats for pets. You…

Channing Pomeroy

Cinematic hitmen typically fit one of two molds: either they're self-loathing cynics, or they're men who believe they rule the world, and who choose killing as a profession because they deserve to decide who lives or dies. Frankie Bono is neither of these. Frankie Bono is…

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