This Morning's Film: Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
This is the first film I've watched from the neo-noir films Criterion are showing this month. Been circling this one for years. I thought it was a cheap made for TV thing, but no! This is a pretty hardcore bit of 70's neo-noir! A lot of great character actors in this like the great Harry Dean Stanton as a bent cop, to Anthony Zerbe as a hood, and Sylvester Stallone (!) in a nonspeaking bit part as some hood muscle that...gets into some trouble. Hell, this even has a Jim Thompson cameo! After Bogart, Robert Mitchum was, in my mind, the other king of noir. He made some great movies during the 70s though, with The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Yakuza, and then Farewell, My Lovely. Good picture!