New Year’s movie for every taste: gangster musical, romantic retro, action comedy
The list of films recommended by the media to its readers for the New Year holidays from year to year has not changed for years and has managed to bore everyone even more than the notorious “The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!” “Telegraph” I have collected for you those films that, unlike “Home Alone” and “Die Hard,” are not so widely known to viewers. But at the same time – no worse!
“Trading Places” (1982)
Two brothers who own a large financial corporation (Hollywood veterans Don Amici and Ralph Bellamy) are putting on a social experiment for fun. They swap the manager of their company (famous 80’s comedian Dan Aykroyd) with a street beggar – his role was played by someone who has not yet been bronzed Eddie Murphy. The polished yuppie loses everything and sinks to the very bottom of life, but the petty swindler who takes his place, as one might expect, turns out to be not so simple.
A classic Christmas comedy from one of the best comedians in New Hollywood John Landis – among other things, he at one time brought about an evolution in music video, directing the famous video Michael Jackson “Thriller”.
The film is filled to the brim with great jokes, chases, disguises and, despite the well-known predictability of the plot, bright twists. It also stars an indecent number of star actors. In addition to those mentioned, this is another Hollywood veteran Denholm Elliottknown for the Indiana Jones series of films, future Oscar winner for the film “Everything Everywhere at Once” Jamie Lee Curtis and John Belushi in one of his first roles. The scene with his participation in the New Year’s finale is one of the funniest.
“The Apartment” (1960)
Great Hollywood Classics Jack Lemmon (“Only Girls in Jazz”) and Shirley MacLaine (“Sweet Charity”) starring. A funny and touching love story between two “little people” – an ordinary accountant at a large insurance company in New York and a girl who works in the same office building as an elevator operator.
He is trying to make a career by providing his cozy apartment in the center to his bosses so that his big bosses can take their mistresses there. The heroine Shirley MacLaine, who cannot refuse the advances of the company director, naturally turns out to be one of the girls whom her boss brings to a comfortable apartment. Which, of course, sets off a fireworks display of ridiculous and funny situations.
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Despite the b/w, “Apartment”, like most films Billy Wilder (director of the same “… girls”), does not age. And on the contrary, over the years it seems funnier and, most importantly, kinder. Against the backdrop of today’s post-irony, the good humor of this film warms you, and the happy ending that unfolds on New Year’s Eve makes you forget about any troubles.
“The Last Boy Scout” (1991)
As we have already written, traditionally all movie ratings for the New Year holidays include “Die Hard.” So the choice of “The Last Boy Scout” might seem surprising if it weren’t for one of the many jokes scattered throughout the film – thanks to the hero’s daughter Bruce Williswe know that the action takes place on Christmas and New Year.
One of the last masterpieces of the masculine action genre of the 1980s, Boy Scout Tony Scott is the story of two losers, a private detective and a former football player who burned out on cocaine and betting fraud (Damon Wayans), who got involved in an investigation against the mafia.
The daughter of Bruce Willis’s character in The Last Boy Scout clearly inherited his sense of humor
A dizzying ride of violence, gags and verbal sparring of the darkest humor, going over the edge (and quite a lot went to the people), “The Last Boy Scout” is ideal entertainment for all fans of action films. After all, of all the arts, cinema and circus remain the most important.
And most importantly, we see on the screen Bruce Willis, who today slowly fading from Alzheimer’s diseasein his best acting and physical form.
“Broadway Bloodhounds” (1989)
This wonderful film went unnoticed in its time, and is completely unfairly forgotten today – even despite the fact that she played one of the main roles in it famous pop singer Madonna. The only tape of a classmate Jim Jarmusch in film school Howard Brucknerwho died at 34 from the effects of AIDS.
“Broadway Bloodhounds” – film adaptation of stories Damon Runyon, a Prohibition-era Broadway poet who combines slapstick comedy, musical and gangster movie pastiche. On the eve of the New Year, 1929, the stories of several characters are intertwined, including two cabaret singers (one of whom, in fact, was played by Madonna in a duet with the star of “Dirty Dancing” Jennifer Gray) and a professional player performed Matt Dillon (“Asteroid City”).
Stylish, funny and naive in a good way, as befits New Year’s fairy tales, this film will put you in a good mood and delight film fans with its excellent casting. In episodic roles here you can see those who do not need any special introduction. Steve Buscemi and Rutger Haueras well as the cult beat writer William Burroughs.
Previously we wrote about what’s wrong with the Ukrainian sitcom “Be on Time Before 30”.
Category Publication date October 31, 2023, 10:30 am