Films

To Live And Die In LA

Agreed, great film. Thanks for reminding me of it. Have the VHS somewhere, gonna have to get the DVD and watch this again.

William Friedkin directed this, his most notable movies are of course 'The Exorcist' and 'The French Connection'. I think Live and Die is styled very much in the same way as French Connection. His recent movies haven't been amazing, but watchable. I'm refferring to 'Rules of Engagement' and 'The Hunted' though I admit when I watched them I didn't know he directed them until the credits rolled. (Probably on TV - I'm sure the DVD cases mentioned it.)

I went to see this film in 1985, at the now closed down and built over, Edgeware Road Cinema....the one under the flyover and facing Paddington Green Police Station

I remember it well. I watched a good few movies there myself. One of the last one I recall before it was closed down to make way for the Metropole Hotel was Crocodile Dundee. (I thought it was good at the time, actually it hasn't aged to badly still works.)

It really is brilliant, with actors that all became stars in their own right. Its the mention of Manhunter above that brought this all back, because the "hero" is the same actor - William Petersen.

Yeah but it really was Manhunter that made him, after that he just did a bunch of TV movies ending up in CSI. Which funnily enough Friedkin has been working on too. This was Dafoe's first bad guy role - and I remember him in this more for some reason.

Speaking of whom, did anyone else see or remember 'White Sands'. Another movie I really like from the 90's perhaps because the BBC used to show it all the time, or at least it seemed that way.