Hustle (1975)

Action! - The Postwar Hollywood 3: Reworking Aldrich Aldrich seeks to replicate 30/40s film noir, particularly those starring Bogart as Marlowe, with a slow burn, at times sleazy (especially with that reveal), Reynolds as a suave man detective and a dreamy vibe and…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

This neo-noir as reactionary response to post-hippie decadence missed the zeitgeist on the subject by more than a few years, with Joe (1970), Dirty Harry (1971), Electra Glide in Blue (1973), and Death Wish (1974), among others, beating it to the punch (See J. Hoberman’s…

Scott Kelly

What a filthy, brutal film, even the heavily contrasted color cinematography seems to evoke a sense of rotting decay and immoral corruption. We are under Reagan’s sun (or we will soon be), there might not exist neither good nor wrong, but there is still death. Culture is…

Diogo Serafim

A pretty solid neo-noir with a great pairing of Burt Reynolds and Catherine Deneuve. He's a cop and she's a high-class call girl - and Burt's girlfriend. An interesting study of their relationship. There's a lot of misogyny - men hitting women- and casual bigotry against…

williamfaeleith

Yesterday when I was young There were so many songs that waited to be sung So many wild pleasures that lay in store for me And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see I nearly forgot how much I love this movie.  After striking box office gold with the crowdpleasing…

Schratzi

Who knew Burt Reynolds and Catherine Deneuve made a film together? I had no clue but as soon as I had discovered, I had to see it. It's as if french and american cinema become one, with a bit of more preponderance of the american part. A detective story and a troubled…

maneleeo

Hustle attempts hard to elevate itself from many other American cop films from the mid-nineteen-seventies, and in many regards, it largely succeeds. Directed and produced by Robert Aldrich, who commonly invested his films with both cynicism and honesty, and follows homicide…

Paul Elliott

While most of the New Hollywood directors were busy pleasing studio executives with contemporary palatability, Aldrich was on a rocket ship named Transgression.

Jerry

Despite being equal parts devastating and a bizarre reactionary mishmash, I kind of fell in love with this. Found myself immediately wrapped up in its downbeat, quiet rhythms. Reynolds and Deneuve are lovely together, might be my favorite performance for the…

Brandon Streussnig