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MannVanuary 3: Minis-three of Fear

I'm back for year 3 of MannVanuary! Here are the rules:

1/1 Anthony Mann Film
1/1 Melvin or Mario Film
1/1 Black Western
5/5 decades (western) - 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s
8/8 films from Black directors
1/1 Italian Western
4/4 westerns from the following: Corbucci, Sturges, Hawks, Delmer Daves or Boetticher.
7/7 decades (noir) - 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
4/4 noir films from: Ray, Ulmer, Lang, De Toth, Florey, Melville, Foley.

BONUS - 1 Spike Lee that you haven't seen and The Final Comedown

Best film: Mervyn LeRoy - I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Runner-up: Samuel Fuller - The Naked Kiss
Best Director: Don Siegel - The Beguiled
Best Actor: Bob Hoskins - Mona Lisa
Best Actress: Anna Diop - Nanny
Best Screenplay: Gregory Poirier - Rosewood
Technical Grand Prize: Thomas Reilly - Crime Wave (editing)

  • I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
  • The Naked Kiss
  • The Beguiled
  • Crime Wave
  • The Professionals
  • American Fiction
  • Mona Lisa
  • Rosewood
  • Bend of the River
  • The Mercenary
  • Ministry of Fear
  • Summer of Sam
  • El Dorado
  • Broken Arrow
  • Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
  • The Black Dahlia
  • Nanny
  • Fear
  • New Jack City
  • The Final Comedown
  • The Secret Life of Bees
  • Knock on Any Door
  • Lone Wolf McQuade
  • Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
  • I Wanna Dance with Somebody
  • Tales from the Hood 2