Actor

Russ Tamblyn

3: briefs
13:00: average
39 min: in total

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West Side Story

Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins · 1961

West Side Story (1961) adapts the Broadway musical into a formally rigorous film where dance, editing and colour articulate racial tension and adolescent love in 1950s New York. Directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, it stars Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer, with music by Leonard Bernstein and choreography rooted in Robbins’s stage vision. Though its dramatic interludes lack the same force as its musical sequences, its sustained formal intelligence — in cinematography, editing and staging — secures its place as a benchmark for the genre.

13:00

Gun Crazy

Joseph H. Lewis · 1950

A lean, unsentimental 1950 crime film tracing the steady collapse of moral choice in a young couple drawn into robbery and murder. Directed by Joseph H. Lewis with stark visual economy and anchored by Peggy Cummins and John Dall, it treats violence as consequence, not climax — and remains potent precisely because it refuses to explain itself.

13:00

Drive

Nicolas Winding Refn · 2011

Ryan Gosling plays an unnamed Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a wheelman, drawn toward his neighbour Irene and her young son right as her ex-convict husband's debts pull them all into a heist that goes wrong. Adapted by Hossein Amini from James Sallis's nonlinear novel and directed by Refn after Gosling handpicked him, the film pairs a stripped-down, near-silent lead performance with Cliff Martinez's synth score and long stretches where almost nothing is said out loud.