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Blast of Silence

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A hit man (Allen Baron) comes to New York to kill a gangster and gets the gun from a big guy (Larry Tucker) with a beard.
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Richard Brody New Yorker This compact and forceful low-budget film noir ... compresses a week in a hit man's bitter life into a dazzlingly brisk yet richly nuanced seventy-seven minutes. Jan 14, 2013 Full Review Eric Henderson Slant Magazine The tension doesn't so much revolve around the antihero's job, redemption, or ultimate fate but rather the disconnect between its mundane milieu and the grandiose flourishes they're meant to convey. Rated: 2/4 Apr 16, 2008 Full Review J. R. Jones Chicago Reader With its finger-popping jazz score and beat-inspired interior monologue (in second person, no less), this might seem comical if it weren't so rooted in existential dread. Jan 22, 2008 Full Review Shelagh Rowan-Legg ScreenAnarchy The kind of magic that come out of this scrappy indie filmmaker is fully on display in Blast of Silence. Both an homage to and perhaps something of a criticism of noir and its cynicism, a distillation of its essential components into a fractal poem. Rated: 4/5 Jan 16, 2024 Full Review Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema A practically perfect take on the detached killer who is looking for a way out, seeing a chance for connection, and having everything he has known, hoped for, and dreamed about crumble away for no other reason than that how it goes, baby boy. Rated: 5/5 Dec 26, 2023 Full Review Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com You don't know Film Noir until you've seen "Blast Of Silence." Hard boiled. Rated: A+ Jan 18, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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Bill B Definitely low budget and deserving credit for what it was able to achieve, but there isn't a lot of story or dialogue here, except for the voice-over narration. It is mostly the noir atmosphere; its shadowy bleakness is what will remain with you. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 06/06/24 Full Review Patrick V A mini masterpiece on all levels. The tale of a dysfunctional hitman on the job in New York. Allen Baron should have made a bigger splash ( no pun intended) in the Movie world after this. Actor, writer & Director. What a bucket of talent this guy was. This movie is VERY bleak and locations are bleaker. This is not " Naked City" New York, more " On the Bowery" New York. The Cinematography is glorious and surreal. Made on the cusp of the 1960s you can feel,movie wise ,whats coming just around the corner Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/30/23 Full Review S R Unique film noir, but not one I need to see again. Props for its day. Saw on TCM. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 05/09/23 Full Review delysid d strangling a fat guy to death who raises rats Rated 3 out of 5 stars 12/17/21 Full Review Audience Member Unusually effective pulp-noir thriller, written and directed by its star Allen Baron. The story is simple - a lone hitman drives into New York for one last job, but gets sidetracked by romance, and is also betrayed by a fat hoodlum, whom he kills. Shot in grainy black-and-white during a bitterly cold winter, there is considerable beauty in the snatched sequences of early-60s Manhattan. Baron has something of DeNiro in his terse silence, and the occasional slightly clunky supporting performances don't spoil what is a very well-directed B-picture. Only Lionel Stander's insistent voice-over and the occasionally hectoring jazz score work against the melancholy that courses through the movie. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member A minor work made by a guy who knows his stuff. Traveled down the way The Asphalt Jungle and The Third Man had paved for it, all the while paving a new road for noir. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A hit man (Allen Baron) comes to New York to kill a gangster and gets the gun from a big guy (Larry Tucker) with a beard.
Director
Allen Baron
Producer
Merrill S. Brody
Screenwriter
Allen Baron, Waldo Salt
Genre
Crime, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (DVD)
Apr 15, 2008
Runtime
1h 17m
Sound Mix
Mono
Aspect Ratio
35mm