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The Naked City
1948 · Film · 96 min
Directed by Jules Dassin
After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
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Perhaps surprisingly, a lot more than briefly. That's 1915 -- I recently saw the 1948 detective movie "The Naked City" set in NYC, and it still shows the milkman delivering milk via horse-drawn carriage, amid all the cars.
It's a fascinating movie BTW -- as much of a documentary of 1948 NYC as it is a plot-driven story.
The Naked City by Jules Dassin is a really good police procedural. If you like stuff like Law & Order, this is the progenitor.
The Third Man is classic, classic noir. Between the on location shooting in Vienna, fantastic performances by Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles, and really distinctive cinematography, it's just stunning.
A Man Escaped. To quote Godard, "He is the French cinema, as Dostoevsky is the Russian novel and Mozart is German music". If you like simple, but beautiful films, watch Bresson. A Man Escaped makes all other prison break films, with their endless plot twists and convolutions, seem utterly pointless. Instead Bresson focuses on the character, the drama and the methodical process of breaking out.