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Film · Warner Bros. · 1968

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Bullitt

46Watch it awake.

The chase is what people remember. The job is keeping a witness the politician wants as a picture.

The review

A detective is assigned to guard a mob witness because a politician wants a headline. The witness is killed. What follows is a hospital and a car chase over the hills of San Francisco, which is the part people kept.

The work is the case. The politician wanted a picture. He still has to find the killer after the picture is ruined. It is a clean, cold cop film. Fine for adults who can tell a chase from a reason. The hills are not the point. The dead witness is.

Journal

Keep Bullitt in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 46. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Anatomy of a Murder

58 instead of 46

Anatomy of a Murder is still a crime film, and it scores 58 instead of 46. What you gain is republic: A jury is the public.

The eight

7
Industry
He is a detective on a protection job, and he stays on it after it fails.
2
Household
No marriage and no child. The night is the case.
3
Piety
Conscience here is professional. He does not like being used.
6
Courage
He keeps after the killer once the witness he was guarding is dead.
5
Republic
A politician wants a headline. The detective still has a job that is not the headline.
5
Temperance
The chase is famous. The film is cooler than the cars it started.
6
Truth
The assignment was a picture. The dead witness makes the picture a lie.
3
Stewardship
What lasted in the culture was the chase, not the case.

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Film · United Artists · 1964

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A Hard Day's Night

46Watch it awake.

Watch it awake, or put it on for the songs and the work. Nobody is asked to become worse.

The review

They have a television appearance to make, a train to catch, and an afternoon in which the city wants pieces of them. The jokes are at the expense of managers, advertisers, and anyone who needs the boys to stand still and be a product. The songs are the work, performed as work. Nobody is asked to betray a friend. Nobody is asked to be cruel to a girl. For a phenomenon as large as this one, that is a remarkable restraint, and I will credit it.

A family can put it on. The limit is that it is a day, not a life, and a day of fame is a thin diet if it becomes the only picture of adulthood in the house. Watch the studio session and ask who in the room was doing a job seriously. Include them. The screaming outside is the decade. The work inside is the part worth keeping. A very large cultural fact of 1964. The fact is not a reason. The songs and the decency are.

Journal

Keep A Hard Day's Night in the record.