The Killing, (Stanley Kubrick, 1956)
Re-watching The Asphalt Jungle clearly put me in a film noir - and especially a Sterling Hayden film noir - mood, as I watched Stanley Kubrick's The Killing again this afternoon. I'm not a huge Kubrick fan, although he would not fall into that list of artists that I admire more than I like that I discussed earlier. I would probably argue that The Killing is actually Kubrick's best film, although I don't know if I would die on that hill (but I don't think I'm merely being a contrarian either). Takumi Furukawa's excellent Cruel Gun Story, starring the immortal Joe Shishido, which I always show in my Japanese film noir class is essentially a remake. Highly recommended.
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