Sunday, May 22, 2011

The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), Peter Yates.

Shady deals in grocery store parking lots

Eddie's friends are kind of losers.  Eddie (Robert Mitchum) is an aging crook, wheeling and dealing to get out of a charge of being caught with stolen goods.  He loses whatever remaining dignity he has with each agreement. This film crawls but is broken up by bursts of action.  Sit back and enjoy the the ambiance: mundane and garish Boston, in 1973. You'll think you're in a Stephen Shore photograph.  


5th Street and Broadway, Eureka California, Stephen Shore (1974).

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