The feeling and atmosphere of the following films are similar to me, how would you describe the aesthetic and atmosphere of the films listed, and can anyone add to this list? (especially but not limited to nocturnal films set in 80s manhattan)
Liquid Sky
Escape from New York
Rock N Rule
After Hours
Blade Runner
Akira
Heavy Metal
At least in the vein of trying to get out of New York or a part of New York...Quick Change (1990) with Bill Murray.
shareMotorama. Very weird movie, with a 12 year old kid in the Griffin Dunne role. I actually think I remember hearing "Motorama" was written by one of the same writers that did After Hours.
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shareMystery Date was described as After Hours for teens (paraphrasing) by Roger Ebert.
It used to come on Comedy Central a lot, but I haven't seen it in quite a while.
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Jacob's Ladder
shareFinal Jeopardy with Richard Thomas and Mary Crosby. Great TV movie if you like late night 80's movie atmosphere.
"I've seen things in this city that make Dante's Inferno read like Winnie The Pooh."
Nervous Ticks, starring Bill Pullman and Julie Brown, was an almost exact remake of After Hours. Pretty funny, but hard to find.
shareThis is a good question because After Hours is such a wonderfully uniquely weird movie. I saw it in the theater in '85 and just caught it on HBO for the first time since then. I'd remembered it pretty well.
As something a bit similar, I'd recommend Jim Jarmusch's "Night on Earth", although it involves overnight occurrences in taxis in 4 different cities happening on the same night, it has random overnight weirdness like After Hours, though only the segment with Roberto Benigni in Rome is really comic.
"Boy that was really exciting. I bet you're a big Lee Marvin fan aren't ya."
I would say the French Film "Buffet Froid" (Bertrand Blier) is perhaps closest in atmosphere. If you can find it, give that a shot.
anybody know any George Cukor movies similar in tone to after hours. I watched the after hours commentary and Scorsese refers to alot of his movies but i didn't mark them down, i was just wondwering if anyone would know any?
shareThis isn't a New York film, but it's what I thought of as a tone reference upon first seeing After Hours: Orson Welles's The Trial. It's an adaptation of Kafka that has a similarly surreal and nightmare-ish view of the world. The central character, Joseph K (played by Anthony Perkins), only wants to resolve his crisis but the outlandish characters around him all delay him and send him off on tangential ventures. It's even more atmospheric and non-narrative bound than After Hours was. Certainly a good one to watch. Very interesting to say the least.
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