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    Sam's Song is a 1969 drama film directed by Jordan Leondopoulos and starring Robert De Niro. Footage from Sam's Song was later re-edited into a completely different film, known as both The Swap and Line of Fire, in which a man investigates the death of his brother (released 1979).

  2. May 1, 1991 · Buy Still the Moving World: Intolerance, Modernism and Heart of Darkness: 7 (Literature and the Visual Arts New Foundations) by Leondopoulos, Jordan (ISBN: 9780820413884) from Amazon's Book Store. Free UK delivery on eligible orders.

    • Jordan Leondopoulos
    • Best: Mean Streets
    • Worst: Boxcar Bertha
    • Best: Chinatown
    • Worst: 99 and 44/100 Percent Dead
    • Best: Le Cercle Rouge
    • Worst: The Swap
    • Best: The French Connection
    • Worst: Bloody Mama
    • Best: The Godfather
    • Worst: The Gang That Couldn’T Shoot Straight

    After making two movies under the thumbs of various interfering producers, Martin Scorsese was finally able to spread his artistic wings with Mean Streets. Starring Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro as Italian-American crooks making their way in New York, Mean Streetsis a deeply personal portrait of life in Little Italy told through vaguely connecte...

    Although Mean Streets can be viewed as the first true Scorsese film, it was actually his third directorial effort. His sophomore outing as a director was Boxcar Bertha, a crime drama for producer Roger Corman. A young Scorsese does everything in his power to elevate Boxcar Berthaabove being a serviceable gangster flick, but under the watchful eye o...

    Robert Towne’s script for Chinatownis one of the most perfectly structured screenplays ever written, taught by every screenwriting guru worth their salt. RELATED: Jack Nicholson's 10 Best Movies, According To Rotten Tomatoes Jack Nicholson stars as Jake Gittes, a private eye who stumbles upon a widespread conspiracy, and the unique visual language ...

    John Frankenheimer is a great director, as proven by Seven Days in May and The Manchurian Candidate, but not all his films work. 99 and 44/100 Percent Deadis a crime comedy that took its title from the advertising slogan for Ivory soap, which should give you an idea of how much substance the movie has. Frankenheimer himself even considers 99 and 44...

    Jean-Pierre Melville recruited his go-to leading man Alain Delon for perhaps their finest collaboration in 1970 with Le Cercle Rouge, the brilliant writer-director’s penultimate film. The star attraction in Le Cercle Rougeis the climactic heist sequence, which is edge-of-your-seat gripping, despite going on for about half an hour with virtually no ...

    Technically, The Swap stars Robert De Niro at the height of his powers... but the footage was taken from a film that came out a decade earlier. Director Jordan Leondopoulos repurposed footage from his 1969 movie Sam’s Song, which featured De Niro, to make The Swap, and capitalize on the actor’s newfound fame. De Niro was so furious that Leondopoulo...

    William Friedkin nailed the crime genre with The French Connection, a captivating cat-and-mouse thriller about a detective’s relentless quest to bring down a French heroin smuggler operating in New York. RELATED: 10 Tough-As-Nails Cop Thrillers To Watch If You Like Dirty Harry The movie has a car chase to rival those found in Bullitt and The Road W...

    Roger Corman is a master of low-budget filmmaking; any filmmaker who has to work with a low budget should study Corman's method. But despite the fact that the director counts it among his personal favorites, Bloody Mamais a terrible showing. Loosely based on the story of Ma Barker, who raised her kids to be criminals, Bloody Mamais a schlocky crime...

    Adapted from Mario Puzo’s novel of the same name, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather was the highest grossing movie of all time when it first hit theaters, and was instantly hailed as one of the greatest movies ever made. RELATED: 5 Reasons The Godfather Is The Best Mob Movie Ever Made (And 5 Why It's Goodfellas) The story of the Corleone family ...

    Francis Ford Coppola asked producer Irwin Winkler for the chance to write and direct The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight, a wacky comedy about mafiosos, but Winkler turned him down because he didn’t think Coppola could handle a mob movie. Over the next three years, Coppola would make The Godfather and The Godfather Part II and prove Winkler compl...

  3. May 7, 1979 · The Swap: Directed by John C. Broderick, Jordan Leondopoulos. With Anthony Charnota, Lisa Blount, Sybil Danning, Jarred Mickey. Vinnie gets out of jail after serving 10 years and tries to find out who killed his younger brother - played by a young Robert de Niro.

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    • Crime, Drama
    • John C. Broderick, Jordan Leondopoulos
    • 1979-05-07
  4. May 1, 1991 · by Jordan Leondopoulos (Author) See all formats and editions. Nearly three-quarters of a century of criticism - much of it misguided, sometimes even wrong-headed - has obscured a crucial facet of D.W. Griffith's accomplishment in Intolerance.

    • Jordan Leondopoulos
  5. Dec 9, 2008 · Instead of turgid melodrama, director Leondopoulos treats it as a pseudo-New Wave picture. Gershon Kingsley’s music is there to reveal the characters’ turmoil, while Leondopoulos starts most shots in long shot, cutting close for the forced existential conversations.

  6. Jun 24, 2014 · Death. 24 Jun 2014. Burial. Saint Charles Cemetery. East Farmingdale, Suffolk County, New York, USA Show Map. Plot. Section: 26, Row: OO, Grave: 212. Memorial ID. 177657870.

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