What are we watching now?

Last night we watched The Jericho Mile from 1979; it's Michael Mann's first film, and it's made for TV. I think this is my fourth time seeing it. It's so damn good. It has twenty-eight speaking parts from actual inmates of Folsom Prison. The performance from the lead actor Peter Strauss is Robert de Niro level of work and embodiment. It's so great in just about every way. You see the origin of Mann’s characters rejecting contractions, and it’s incredible. You have the first use of “there is not a hard time invented I cannot handle.” I don’t know where you can see it these days, but years ago I bought a Dutch DVD of it, because that’s all I could find. I read that it was common practice for TV movies in the US to be shown in movie theaters abroad, and I was just imagining how awesome it would’ve been to see this in a theater.
 
I started watching this 2016 movie called "tallulah" on netflix last night... Not a bad movie so far.

"A young woman takes a baby from an irresponsible mother and pretends the child is her own. Without a place of her own, she asks for help of her ex-boyfriend's mother, telling her the baby is her granddaughter."
 
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