The films of Alan Parker POLL

Fame and The Wall are fine; wasn't allowed to watch Angel Heart or Mississippi Burning when my parents rented them, and never bothered to catch up later. All I know about Midnight Express comes from Terror in the Aisles (and The Simpsons). Birdy and Shoot the Moon look interesting, and I've always been sorta curious about Bugsy Malone. Being a gay teen in 1996 who didn't give a shit about Evita was plenty alienating.

STM has Albert Finney and Diane Keaton's greatest performances and an unusually sharp script.

I'd only starting hearing good things about it in recent years; before that, I always kinda slotted it in with the whole AOR cinema genre.

That is a very high compliment for Finney especially, he's had a ton of great roles. I'll have to check it out. Tbh I always wrote off Parker as a near total hack.

That's a nice post, piscesx. I had no idea he'd written Fame, which I still love.

Discussion of Shoot the Moon in this thread, with flappy bird particularly rhapsodic:

Albert Finney's Own Thread

I'm fairly averse to marriage-ending, couples-bickering movies fwiw, is it one of those? My exception to that is Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, but that's perhaps another thing entirely.

kinda that yes

nothing in common -- closer to Scenes From a Marriage.

oh yeah, i didnt mean it was like Va Woolf (that couple is staying together til death)

bickering, it's got bickering

Evita is one of my favourite musicals and i've never felt the urge to watch Madonna fuck it up

roundup

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7037-alan-parker-there-is-an-identity-to-my-films

Watching Evita right now, for somebody's Spanish class. Really don't like. Wonder who was the one vote for.

Strange that I've heard of most of his movies, but I've only seen one (The Commitments). Very enjoyable movie it is, even if it's nothing groundbreaking