A Face in the Crowd


A new favorite. Really amazing film and best Andy Griffith performance ever (also his first) what a different career he could have taken based off this though, I wonder why he chose the route he did.

It's well acted all around (Walter Matthau is the spine of the movie in a great performance as well) also beautifully shot, well directed and written. It quickly reminds me how many short cuts are taken in movies these days and how the stories suffer from it most of the time.

Andy Griffith is really the reason to watch the film, its one of the most raw, solid, adrenaline fueled performances I've ever seen. It reminded of the first time I saw Johnny Boy walk into a room and how with each subsequent entrance you just wonder what he is going to make worse or say this time, what is going to come out of that mouth, what is he about to do, who is he about to piss off. It's like that but a good ole boy singer and 15 years of different worlds to comment on between them.

One day I'll do a triple feature of this, Network and Bamboozled.