Top Twenty Films

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Holy Crap, how the HELL could I have forgotten about this film?! And why have I suddenly remembered it after all these years? I watched the hell out of it during the 80s.

After Hours Directed by Martin Scorsese, and starring Griffin Dunne.



Who looks a bit Keatonesque here, doesn't he?

Oh, how to describe it. It's a slight story really. A man in NYC meets up with a woman in SoHo, loses all his money, and spends the rest of the movie trying to get back home.

Here's the thing though. It's almost as if he's stepped into some dark, neurotic otherworld,



one where he absolutely can NOT catch a break. Every thing and every one is unnervingly off-kilter. Every situation he finds himself in is disquieting, each one spilling into the next.



And each time too the tension is ratcheted up another notch, until, finally, he's literally running for his life.



Soooo...if you like dark comedies set in a bizarrescape, then I HIGHLY recommend After Hours. There are a few short clips on YouTube, but in themselves they can't really begin to convey the cumulative sense of dread and disquiet.