Three Manns and a Vanuary: MannVanuary Trois
26 movies
26/26 Completed 1/31/2024
My picks for the third annual MannVanuary challenge created by <a href="https://letterboxd.com/cinemonster/">Cinemonster</a>, mashing up Westerns, Noir, and Black Cinema (and all combinations thereof) in a tasty new year's stew.
Complete rules and categories here: https://boxd.it/rhvjw
1 Anthony Mann Film THE FURIES (1950)
1 Melvin or Mario Film (I'm doing both MVPs) NEW JACK CITY (1991) THE STORY OF A THREE-DAY PASS (1967)
1 Black Western THE OUTLAW JOHNNY BLACK (2023)
5 decades (western) THE OUTLAW JOHNNY BLACK (2023) DEAD FOR A DOLLAR (2022) THE SISTERS BROTHERS (2018) THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE WEIRD (2008) THE MERCENARY (1968) RIDE LONESOME (1959) GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORRAL (1957) THE FURIES (1950) RED RIVER (1948)
8 films from Black directors NEW JACK CITY (1991) THE STORY OF A THREE-DAY PASS (1967) COTTON COMES TO HARLEM (1970) THE OUTLAW JOHNNY BLACK (2023) THE OLD GUARD (2020) LOVE & BASKETBALL (2000) SUMMER OF SOUL (2021) THEY CLONED TYRONE (2023)
1 Italian Western THE MERCENARY (1968)
4 westerns from the following: Corbucci, Sturges, Hawks, Delmer Daves or Boetticher. THE MERCENARY (1968) RIDE LONESOME (1959) GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORRAL (1957) RED RIVER (1948)
7 decades (noir) ONLY GOD FORGIVES (2013) CONFIDENCE (2003) NEW JACK CITY (1991) HOUSE OF GAMES (1987) COTTON COMES TO HARLEM (1970) TOKYO DRIFTER (1966) LE DOULOS (1962) ON DANGEROUS GROUND (1951) STRANGE ILLUSION (1945) ROPE (1948)
4 noir films from: Ray, Ulmer, Lang, De Toth, Florey, Melville, Foley. ON DANGEROUS GROUND (1951) STRANGE ILLUSION (1945) LE DOULOS (1962) CONFIDENCE (2003)
BONUS: 1 Spike Lee that you haven't seen BAMBOOZLED (2000) + THE FINAL COMEDOWN (1972)
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New Jack City (1991)
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马里奥·范·皮布尔斯
actor:
Ice-T
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Wesley Snipes
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other title:
万恶城市
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纽约黑街
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A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
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The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1968)
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Melvin Van Peebles
actor:
Harry Baird
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Nicole Berger
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other title:
允许
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La Permission
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Turner, a black American soldier, is given three days leave in Paris. Not knowing what to do with himself, he goes to a nightclub where he meets a French girl named Miriam. Their romance blossoms, but their love affair is darkened by Turner's impending departure and the specter of racial prejudice.
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Outlaw Johnny Black (2023)
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不法之徒約翰尼·布萊克
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不法之徒约翰尼·布莱克
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Hell bent on avenging the death of his father, Johnny Black vows to gun down Brett Clayton and becomes a wanted man in the process while posing as a preacher in a small mining town that's been taken over by a notorious Land Baron.
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The Old Guard (2020)
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吉娜·普林斯-拜斯伍德
actor:
查理兹·塞隆
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琪琪·莱恩
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other title:
永生守卫
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不死军团(港/台)
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2020 film directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood
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Love & Basketball (2000)
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吉娜·普林斯-拜斯伍德
actor:
狄恩·巴斯科
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詹姆斯·杜蒙特
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other title:
爱情和篮球
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爱与篮球
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Monica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in love, but they also share another all-consuming passion: basketball. As Quincy and Monica struggle to make their relationship work, they follow separate career paths though high school and college basketball and, they hope, into stardom in big-league professional ball.
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Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)
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阿米尔-卡利布·汤普森
actor:
斯蒂夫·旺达
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BB·金
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other title:
灵魂乐之夏
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夏日之魂
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2021 film directed by Questlove
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The Good the Bad the Weird (2008)
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other title:
Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom
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风尘三侠决战地狱门(港)
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The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits. The Good (a bounty hunter), the Bad (a hitman), and the Weird (a thief) battle the army and the bandits in a race to use a treasure map to uncover the riches of legend.
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The Mercenary (1968)
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赛尔乔·科尔布奇
actor:
弗兰科·内罗
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托尼·穆萨蒂
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other title:
无情职业快枪手
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Il mercenario
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While a Mexican revolutionary lies low as a U.S. rodeo clown, the cynical Polish mercenary who tutored the idealistic peasant tells how he and a dedicated female radical fought for the soul of the guerrilla general Paco, as Mexicans threw off repressive government and all-powerful landowners in the 1910s. Tracked by the vengeful Curly, Paco liberates villages, but is tempted by social banditry's treasures, which Kowalski revels in.
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
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龙虎双侠
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OK镇大决斗
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After the long career of lawman that made him a legend, Wyatt Earp deciedes to quit and join his brothers in Tombstone, Arizona. There he would see them in feud with Clantons, local clan of thugs and cattle thieves. When the showdown becomes inevitable, the help will come from Doc Holliday, terminally-ill gambler who happens to be another Wild West legend.
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Red River (1948)
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Howard Hawks
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阿瑟·罗森
actor:
Montgomery Clift
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John Wayne
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other title:
붉은 강
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赤い河
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Headstrong Thomas Dunson starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot, and his protégé, Matthew Garth, an orphan Dunson took under his wing when Matt was a boy. In need of money following the Civil War, Dunson and Matt lead a cattle drive to Missouri, where they will get a better price than locally, but the crotchety older man and his willful young partner begin to butt heads on the exhausting journey.
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Ride Lonesome (1959)
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巴德·伯蒂彻
actor:
兰道夫·斯科特
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詹姆斯·柯本
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other title:
单格屠龙
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单骑缉凶
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A wanted murderer, Billy John, is captured by Ben Brigade, a bounty hunter, who intends to take him to Santa Cruz to be hanged. Brigade stops at a staging post, where he saves the manager's wife from an Indian attack, and enlists the help of two outlaws to continue his journey more safely. However, the Indian attacks persist, the outlaws plan to take Billy for themselves, tempted by the offer of amnesty for his captor, and Billy's brother Frank is in hot pursuit to rescue him. But Brigade has plans of his own ...
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Only God Forgives (2013)
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Nicolas Winding Refn
actor:
Ryan Gosling
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Kristin Scott Thomas
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other title:
唯神能恕
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罪无赦(港)
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Julian, who runs a Thai boxing club as a front organization for his family's drug smuggling operation, is forced by his mother Crystal to find and kill the individual responsible for his brother's recent death.
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Confidence (2003)
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other title:
行骗天下
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偷天奇谋
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What Jake Vig doesn't know just might get him killed. A sharp and polished grifter, Jake has just swindled thousands of dollars from the unsuspecting Lionel Dolby with the help of his crew. It becomes clear that Lionel wasn't just any mark, he was an accountant for eccentric crime boss Winston King. Jake and his crew will have to stay one step ahead of both the criminals and the cops to finally settle their debt.
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House of Games (1987)
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大卫·马梅
actor:
林赛·克洛斯
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乔·曼特纳
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other title:
赌场
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赌馆
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A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.
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Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
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Ossie Davis
actor:
Godfrey Cambridge
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Raymond St. Jacques
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other title:
龙虎黑煞星
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Wenn es Nacht wird in Manhattan
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Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson are two black cops with a reputation for breaking the odd head. Both are annoyed at the success of the Reverend Deke O'Mailey who is selling trips back to Africa to the poor on the installment plan. When his truck is hijacked and a bale of cotton stuffed with money is lost in the chase, Harlem is turned upside down by Gravedigger and Coffin Ed, the Reverend, and the hijackers. Much of the humor is urban black, which was unusual in 1970
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Tokyo Drifter (1966)
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东京流浪汉
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東京流れ者
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After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gun-for-hire, to assassinate him. As the Viper trails his target through the countryside, the agile Phoenix Tetsu grows concerned that one of his former associates has betrayed him.