The Killing (12)
There are many great and influential heist movies. Rififi, The Usual Suspects, The Italian Job, Ocean's Eleven and Reservoir Dogs are just five, and honourable mentions should also go to the films which influenced those last two, Jean-Pierre Melville's Bob Le Flambeur and Ringo Lam's City On Fire. But few can match the power of Stanley Kubrick's 1956 film noir The Killing, released in the same year as Melville's film but with a screenplay by Jim Thompson. Sterling Hayden stars as the stick-up guy planning one last job before retirement, a $2 million racetrack heist. Arrow Academy's Blu-Ray edition includes Kubrick's 1955 film Killer's Kiss.
The Overnighters (E)
Oscar-nominated documentary from filmmaker Jesse Moss about the unemployed men who travel to North Dakota to try find work in the state's oilfields, and the local Lutheran pastor who provides a roof and a home for the many who discover jobs are as scarce there as they are everywhere else. An unflinching view of post-crash America.
Enemy (15)
Beginning with a gnomic statement - "Chaos is order yet undeciphered" - and a brooding scene in an underground sex club, Denis Villeneuve's psychological thriller stars Jake Gyllenhaal as two men who are physically identical but emotionally different, and whose chance meeting sets off a troubling series of events.
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