[Movie Night] Westlake Tribute

Thursday night, 1/8, 8 PM: Point Blank. Lee Marvin stars, John Boorman directs. I reviewed it briefly here. It's based on Donald Westlake's first Parker book, although I wouldn't call the movie a faithful adapatation per se. It's not a caper movie, and Westlake is a much more straightforward storyteller than Boorman. The movie verges on surreal.

But it's one of the two best Westlake-related movies and The Grifters is too grim, to say the very least.

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