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Friday Oct 16 | Bostonist

Friday Happenings

Robert Mitchum's grizzled and vulnerable performance as a down-on-his luck Quincy gunrunner makes The Friends of Eddie Coyle one movie that every Bostonian ought to see.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Thriller, Robert Mitchum, Boston, MA, Quincy, MA, South Boston (Boston, MA), Jamaica Plain (Boston, MA)

Fri Jul 03, 2009

Boston Herald

Gotta love it

WATCH: "THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE" Martin Scorsese's 2006 Oscar-winner "The Departed" owes a notable debt to Peter Yates' great, Boston-set-and-shot 1973 crime noir "The Friends of Eddie Coyle." Based on a novel by Boston reporter-turned-novelist George V. Higgins, the film tells the semi-tragic tale of Eddie "Fingers" Coyle and presages the whole ...

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Thriller, Boston, MA, Robert Mitchum, Country, Recipes, Cambridge, MA, Entertainment

Tue Jun 30, 2009

Azcentral.com

10 gangster movies

The gangster heist movie to which all other heist movies pay homage. This French flick also features a 32-minute burglary sequence without dialogue or music.

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Related Topix: Thriller, Crime Movies, Point Blank, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Arts, Cinema, Lee Marvin, The Long Good Friday, Movies, Entertainment

Thu May 28, 2009

Village Soup

Alan Ball's - Blood'; Eddie Coyle's - Friends'

OWLS HEAD : True Blood: The Complete First Season . Vampires are hot these days -- hit movies, upcoming TV series -- but never hotter than in Alan Balla s follow-up series to a oeSix Feet Under.a Based on the highly successful series of a oeThe Southern Vampire Mysteriesa by Charlaine Harris -- the ninth book, a oeDead and Gone,a was released this ...

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Related Topix: True Blood, Entertainment, Television, Thriller, Crime Movies, Drama Movies

Tue May 26, 2009

The Austin American-Statesman

What I'm watching

Wherein our movie critic periodically shares what DVDs he's been viewing in his spare time ... "The Friends of Eddie Coyle" : A terrific, taut crime drama about informers and their pals.

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Related Topix: Thriller, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Stranded: I've Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains, Alex Rocco, Horror Movies, Soylent Green, Science Fiction Movies

Sun May 24, 2009

USA Today

New on DVD: Morrison concert, 'Valkyrie'

This week's picks include a Van Morrison concert exclusive, a WWII drama and a Robert Mitchum classic.

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Related Topix: Valkyrie, Thriller, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Robert Mitchum, Van Morrison, Pop/Rock, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, A Bug's Life, Animation Movies, Comedy Movies, Family, Adventure, Movies, Entertainment

Fri May 22, 2009

Http

Will Pfeifer: Grim 'The Friends of Eddie Coyle' demonstrates filmmaking restraint

In the pantheon of movie tough guys, it's tough to top Robert Mitchum. Whether playing a world-weary private eye in "Out of the Past," a vengeful ex-con in "Cape Fear" or a murderous preacher in "Night of the Hunter," Mitchum was the guy you didn't dare mess with.

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Related Topix: Thriller, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Land of the Lost, Horror Movies, Cape Fear, Robert Mitchum, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Entertainment

Thu May 21, 2009

Talking Moviezzz

The Moviezzz Blog: DVD Releases for

Here are the DVDs releasing this week, Tuesday, May 19. 2009. A big TV on DVD week as the seasons are coming to an end.

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Related Topix: Entertainment, Drama, Television, Thriller, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Comedy, Robert Mitchum, Western, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Tue May 19, 2009

DVD Verdict

The Friends Of Eddie Coyle: Criterion Collection

Cool it, slick. If Judge Clark Douglas says he can get it by Thursday, you'll have it Thursday.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Thriller, Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Arts, Cinema

Mon May 18, 2009

The Phoenix

Video interlude: Boston Noir and "The Friends of Eddie Coyle"

Is that the city I live in? What happened to the Freedom Trail, the Red Sox, stuffy Brahmins, Henry James, the Kennedys, the Blue Laws or "Make Way For Ducklings?" It would be easy to blame Peter Yates adaptation of the George Higgins novel for this trend, but, as Paul Sherman notes in his indespensible guide " Big Screen Boston ," it has been ...

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Related Topix: Boston, MA, Charlestown (Boston, MA), Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Thriller, Charlestown, MA

Sun May 17, 2009

NY1

Ew DVD Review: "The Friends of Eddie Coyle"

Now digitally remastered by Criterion, this is a movie worth seeing out for your Netflix queue, stat.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Thriller, Robert Mitchum

Hub Arts

Isabella Stewart Gardner and Eddie Coyle

Wonder how many clicks that headline will get. It's kind of a bait and switch, though.

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Related Topix: Boston, MA, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Thriller

Boston.com

The lens of 'Eddie Coyle'

Long before there was Jack Nicholson in "The Departed," there was Robert Mitchum in "The Friends of Eddie Coyle." Long before there was the Oscar-winning screenplay by Boston local Bill Monahan for "The Departed," there were the untouchable words of the late, great George V. Higgins, brought to the screen by Paul Monash in "Eddie Coyle." "The ...

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Related Topix: Boston, MA, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Thriller, Robert Mitchum, Jack Nicholson, Oscars, The Last Hurrah

Fri May 15, 2009

SF Gate

'The Friends of Eddie Coyle'

"The Friends of Eddie Coyle," a fine crime novel by George V. Higgins, was published in 1972 and made into an outstanding movie a year later.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Thriller

Now Toronto

Coming Tuesday, May 19

Tom Cruise stars as a Nazi colonel involved in a plot to kill Hitler. My Bloody Valentine 3D Fun slasher flick with characters and a story involving cheating spouses and a mad miner.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Thriller, Robert Mitchum

Wed May 13, 2009

EntertainmentWeekly

DVD Review: The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Rated: R ; DVD Release Date: May 19, 2009; Genre: Drama ; With: Peter Boyle and Robert Mitchum By Chris Nashawaty Chris Nashawaty Chris Nashawaty is a senior writer for EW, and author of EW.com's DVD Insomniac column Long available only on cruddy bootleg discs, The Friends of Eddie Coyle is one of the best crime films of the '70s - a decade that ...

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Thriller, Peter Boyle, Robert Mitchum

Tue May 12, 2009

Boxoffice

"Please, Don't Confuse Me With Somebody Who Actually Gives A Crap"

My old friend and colleague Glenn Kenny , doing business over at his gratifyingly high-brow movie blog Some Came Running, was dicussing the new Criterion Collection DVD of the way interesting 1973 Robert Mitchum existential gangster flick The Friends of Eddie Coyle the other day, and the following lines just jumped out at me: Robert Mitchum's ...

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Thriller, Robert Mitchum

Wed Apr 22, 2009

Chicago Sun-Times

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Someone remarks of Eddie, about halfway through " The Friends of Eddie Coyle ," that for a two-bit hood, he has fingers in a lot of pies.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Thriller

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