Cohen and Eastwood
As much as I love many of Clint Eastwood's films--I thought "Hereafter" was the best movie I saw last year--the long and lumpy "J. Edgar" pales next to Larry Cohen's 1977 "Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover." It may have cost a sliver of the former's fulsome budget, but It's nervier, feistier, funnier and has teeth that the current film simply doesn't have. Whatever Hoover's relationship with Clyde Tolson was, it wasn't half as important as the damage he did to this country, and that's what the Cohen film is all about.
share