American singer, bassist and writer of early New York punk; played in Television and the Heartbreakers, then led Richard Hell & the Voidoids, whose Blank Generation (1977) became a punk touchstone.
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Kiss Me Deadly might be the most cynical and fatalistic noir of them all. It happens to take place in sunny LA, but it’s certainly got the seediness too, including fantastic location shooting in long-gone slums.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Richard Hell, the entry for Kiss Me Deadly.
American film director and composer of Halloween, The Thing and Escape from New York.
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I’d love to remake Kiss Me Deadly in some way, but I don’t even know if that would be possible. It has such a contemporary energy, but it’s ultimately so tied to the time in which it was made.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by John Carpenter, the entry for Kiss Me Deadly.
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