Films about organized crime in the United States (Film Guide)

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Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 127. Chapters: Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, The Sting, Miller's Crossing, Alibi, The Racket, Blow, The Public Enemy, Bugsy, Angels with Dirty Faces, Once Upon a Time in America, The Godfather, Dick Tracy, Public Enemies, American Gangster, Coonskin, The Departed, Carlito's Way, Max Payne, Miami Vice, American Pop, Heavy Traffic, Casino, Murder, Inc., Bugsy Malone, The Black Godfather, Idlewild, New Jack City, White Heat, The Enforcer, The Public Eye, Harlem Nights, Last Man Standing, High Sierra, The Street with No Name, Get Carter, Robin and the 7 Hoods, Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, Payback, Paid in Full, The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Key Largo, Hiding Out, The Big Combo, G Men, The Roaring Twenties, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Each Dawn I Die, Carlito's Way: Rise to Power, Armored Car Robbery, Mad Dog and Glory, City Heat, Brother Orchid, Across 110th Street, The Gay Bride, Bones, Hoodlum, Phoenix, Lansky, Kill the Irishman, The Valachi Papers, Underworld U.S.A., 10th & Wolf, Gloria, Gotti, Empire, The Brothers Rico, In Too Deep, The Musketeers of Pig Alley, Capone, Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome, Out of the Fog, Dick Tracy vs. Cueball, WiseGirls, Weather Is Good on Deribasovskaya, It Rains Again on Brighton Beach, Ash Wednesday, Bad Company, Monument Ave., 99 and 44/100% Dead, Smart Money, Dick Tracy's Dilemma, Trick Baby, She Couldn't Say No, Gangster Exchange, Little Odessa, Witness to the Mob, The Grissom Gang, Gangster Wars, Boss of Bosses, The Immortals, Bullets or Ballots, Blondie Johnson. Excerpt: Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino, who cowrote its screenplay with Roger Avary. The film is known for its rich, eclectic dialogue, ironic mix of humor and violence, nonlinear storyline, and host of cinematic allusions and pop culture references. The film was nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Tarantino and Avary won for Best Original Screenplay. It was also awarded the Palme d'Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. A major critical and commercial success, it revitalized the career of its leading man, John Travolta, who received an Academy Award nomination, as did costars Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman. Directed in a highly stylized manner, Pulp Fiction joins the intersecting storylines of Los Angeles mobsters, fringe players, small-time criminals, and a mysterious briefcase. Considerable screen time is devoted to conversations and monologues that reveal the characters' senses of humor and perspectives on life. The film's title refers to the pulp magazines and hardboiled crime novels popular during the mid-20th century, known for their graphic violence and punchy dialogue. Pulp Fiction is self-referential from its opening moments, beginning with a title card that gives two dictionary definitions of "pulp". The plot, as in many of Tarantino's other works, is presented out of chronological sequence. The picture's self-reflexivity, unconventional structure, and extensive use of homage and pastiche have led critics to describe it as a prime example of postmodern film. Considered by some critics a black comedy, the film is also frequently labeled a "neo-noir". Critic Geoffrey O'Brien argues otherwise: "The old-time noir passions, the brooding melancholy and operatic death scenes, would be altogether out of place in the crisp and brightly lit wonderland that Tarantino conjures up. neither neo-noir nor a parody of noir"...