Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and proper upbringing, and enjoys the spoils, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw. But life on the dark side carries a heavy price, and one fate seems most likely for men like Joe: an early death. Until that day, he and his friends are determined to live life to the hilt.
Boston, 1926. The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world.Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and proper upbringing. Now having graduated from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of the city's most fearsome mobsters, Joe enjoys the spoils, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw.But life on the dark side carries a heavy price. In a time when ruthless men of ambition, armed with cash, illegal booze, and guns, battle for control, no one - neither family nor friend, enemy nor lover - can be trusted. Beyond money and power, even the threat of prison, one fate seems most likely for men like Joe: an early death. But until that day, he and his friends are determined to live life to the hilt.Joe embarks on a dizzying journey up the ladder of organized crime that takes him from the flash of Jazz Age Boston to the sensual shimmer of Tampa's Latin Quarter to the sizzling streets of Cuba. Live by Night is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, tough rumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream. At once a sweeping love story and a compelling saga of revenge, it is a spellbinding tour de force of betrayal and redemption, music and murder, that brings fully to life a bygone era when sin was cause for celebration and vice was a national virtue.
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Live by Night gets you right in the gut. Joe is attractive in a night-prowling animal kind of way. He is the guy girls want but most listen to Mom and stay the hell away from him. You know all along he is going to have the worst end but you still want to tag along and be a vicarious part of his life. I was hooked from the first sentence, the line did not slacken until the last...continued
Titus Welliver has appeared in the previous three films that Ben Affleck has directed. He filmed scenes for this one, but they were cut. Despite this, he is still prominently billed in the end credits.
This is the first time Ben Affleck worked with an actor from the Dark Knight trilogy since starring in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). Anthony Michael Hall appeared in The Dark Knight (2008).
it's wild this motherfucker who looks like he was born a full grown pirate with his eyepatch and never ending half cigarette coming out of his mouth directed some of the most earnestly romantic interactions in american movie history. just an absolute uncanny ability to wreck you with scenes that would have made keats give up writing poems cause he couldn't live up to these moments. moments that feel like you're looking up at the clouds on a sunny 74 degree day and all you can hear is the sound of bees buzzing and the breathing of someone you love laying next to you.
ADDITION: Criterion - Region 'A' - Blu-ray - May 17': Predictably, Criterion's 1080P is decidedly improved from last year's Japanese Blu-ray that was obviously taken from an inferior source (one that uses the 'Your Red Wagon' title) not Warner's original elements. The Criterion is advertised as a 'new 2K digital restoration' and it gains a lot of information on the right edge but loses a shade on the left, top and bottom. The Criterion clocks in at a precise 1.37:1 aspect ratio. The big issue with the IVC Blu-ray was how faint it looked - presumably the source was compromised and had lost density. The Criterion black levels are rich, deep and inky supporting highly pleasing contrast. It's night and day with Criterion coming out the big winner. It looks wonderful in-motion.
Criterion include the same worthwhile audio commentary featuring film historian Eddie Muller and actor Farley Granger, originally found on Warner's 2007 DVD package. Definitely worth listening to again. I enjoyed seeing the new, 21-minute, video interview with film critic Imogen Sara Smith, author of In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City, discussing They Live By Night. We also get a 6-minute piece from 2007, referencing the film, with film critic Molly Haskell, filmmakers Christopher Coppola and Oliver Stone, and film noir specialists Alain Silver and James Ursini as well as a 7-minute of an illustrated audio interview excerpts from 1956 with producer John Houseman on the radio program of Gideon Bachman's 'Film Forum'. Houseman addresses his work in motion pictures. The package also contains a liner notes booklet with a new essay by film scholar Bernard Eisenschitz.
In Ybor City near Tampa, Joe enters a partnership with Esteban Suarez, a Cuban nightclub owner and supplier of illegal raw materials from Cuba for making rum. Through Esteban, Joe meets Graciela Corrales, a beautiful Cuban who is bent on aiding a revolutionary effort in her home country. Graciela is married to a man in a Cuban prison, who she thinks is a revolutionary but actually is a con man and is not even in jail, as Esteban tells Joe. To cement the new partnership with Esteban, Joe engineers the theft from a Naval ship of munitions that are then sent to the Cuban revolutionaries. Romance develops between Joe and Graciela. They set up shop, and Joe's business booms.
The Mafia dispatches him to Tampa, Fla., to oversee its rumrunning operations. Down south, Joe, a Catholic, runs afoul of the Klan and the white Protestant civic power structure that treats him with disdain. He answers their disdain with bullets. Tommy-gun battles liven up what is otherwise a pretty leaden picture.
They Live by NightBlu-ray rates:Movie: ExcellentVideo: ExcellentSound: Excellent Supplements: Audio commentary featuring film historian Eddie Muller and actor Farley Granger; video piece with Imogen Sara Smith; featurette from 2007 with Molly Haskell, Christopher Coppola Oliver Stone, Alain Silver and James Ursini; audio interview from 1956 with producer John Houseman; illustrated fold-out with essay by Bernard Eisenschitz.Deaf and Hearing-impaired Friendly? YES; Subtitles: English (feature only)Packaging: Keep caseReviewed: June 22, 2017(5452live) 2ff7e9595c
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