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The Gravy Train (1974)
A caper movie. The story of two brothers in search of a, um... a seafood restaurant.
Another one that slipped by the radar of most anyone. This little B produced gem is so full of new ideas in an old genre and so absolutely refreshing and inventive, that a dreadful feeling about the lack of cojones in today's cinema slowly overtakes your body. The final set piece is so innovative in its setting and style that it prefigures everyone from Tarantino to John Woo. Oh, and if you think "dying lines" are all cliche, wait for the dying line of FF. A piece of dialogue that could have torn you with laughter will take your heart. A true pleasure. Seek it and see it. You won't be sorry.
One Eight Seven (1997)
Vivid revisitation of the "Blackboard Jungle" premise.
Every now and then a movie is completely ignored or misunderstood by audiences AND critics alike. 187 contains some of the most dazzling, precise, ingenious, brilliant, inspired filmmaking in decades. Truly experimental in for, it re-elaborates an old premise with unexpected freshness, great sincerity and both earnestness and precision in its storytelling. I am only saddened to think that so many saw so little of it. Reynolds finally establishes in my book as the fulfilled promise of the man that shot THE BEAST.