Thief 19814/3/2024 Thief has some of those same qualities in its look in that opening sequence, and the allusion is so clear (and so recent) that it must be impossible to look at a Frank (Caan) in the middle of his seedy enterprise, driving off into the wee hours after having robbed someone, and not see Travis driving a car length ahead after having dropped off some slightly shell-shocked customer. The dingy glow of Travis’s cab sploshing through the light-reflecting water in the ugly streets is hypnotic and marvelous. Watching Thief, I was put in mind of Taxi Driver. Neon lights blurring out the moon, dark asphalt streets, wet pockets in potholes, the lights of cars glowing: it’s all very yellow fog rubbing its back against the window-panes. The opening sequence of Thief is gorgeous in that sort of meretricious urban way. Starring James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Robert Prosky
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