Comments on: Interview: John Hillcoat Talks The Top 5 Influences For His Prohibition-Era Gangster Movie ‘Lawless’

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:02:46 +0000

Hillcoat directed Ghosts of the Civil Dead and To Have and to Hold before he did the Proposition.

By: Nosgoth1979

Nosgoth1979 — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:02:46 +0000

Iâm going to have to check out those documentaries. Iâve only recently become interested in that era of history, but it seems very fascinating. I havenât seen Lawless yet, but one of my coworkers at DISH told me it was the kind of movie you only want to see once. So I wonât be blind-buying it. I used to buy most of my movies before I saw them, but that habit left me with a bunch of discs Iâll never use again. Thatâs a lot of money wasted. Once I started thinking like that I decided to change my habits, and now I use DISHâs Blockbuster @Home to rent all my movies before I buy them. I get thousands of titles streamed whenever I want to my TV and PC and over 100,000 titles by mail for a flat monthly fee, and it keeps me from buying movies that are just going to gather dust.

By: Dom Pink

Dom Pink — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:02:46 +0000

THE PROPOSITION was not Hillcoat's debut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts…_of_the_Civil_Dead

By: JD V

JD V — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:02:46 +0000

"The genre was in it's infancy"…??? White Heat came out in 1949. It was considered a REVIVAL of gangster movies. Josef Von Sternberg's Underworld, probably the first real classic gangster movie, was released in 1924. Even if you don't accept Underworld as the beginning of the genre, Little Ceaser was a big hit in 1930.