Carlito's Way

Carlito's Way

Theatrical poster
Directed by Brian De Palma
Produced by Martin Bregman
Michael Scott Bregman
Willi Bär
Written by Novels:
Edwin Torres
Screenplay:
David Koepp
Starring Al Pacino
Sean Penn
Penelope Ann Miller
Luis Guzmán
Joseph Siravo
John Leguizamo
Music by Patrick Doyle
Cinematography Stephen H. Burum
Editing by Kristina Boden
Bill Pankow
Studio Epic Productions
Bregman/Baer Productions
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) November 10, 1993
Running time 144 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $30,000,000
Gross revenue $76,948,322 (USA)
Followed by Carlito's Way: Rise to Power

Carlito's Way is a 1993 crime film based on the novels Carlito's Way and After Hours[1] by Judge Edwin Torres. The film adaptation was scripted by David Koepp and directed by Brian De Palma. It stars Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, Luis Guzman, John Leguizamo, Jorge Porcel, Joseph Siravo and Viggo Mortensen. The film's featured song, "You Are So Beautiful", was performed by Joe Cocker.

The film is based mainly on After Hours, but used the title of the first novel to avoid it being confused with Martin Scorsese's 1985 film of the same name, and focuses on Carlito's activities once he is released from prison. Carlito Brigante, a fictional Puerto Rican criminal vows to go straight and to retire in paradise. However, his past will not let him, and he unwittingly ends up being dragged into the same criminal activities that got him imprisoned in the first place.

Carlito's Way received a mixed response from critics, with a similar lukewarm result at the box office, but has subsequently gained a cult following. Both Sean Penn and Penelope Ann Miller received Golden Globe nominations for their performances.This was when Pacino and Miller experienced their first offscreen romance as well. A prequel titled Carlito's Way: Rise to Power, based on the first novel, was filmed and released direct-to-video in 2005.

Contents

Plot

The story takes place in New York, 1975, when Carlito "Charlie" Brigante is released from prison with the help of his close friend and lawyer, Dave Kleinfeld. Carlito makes a surprising announcement: he intends to go straight. He visits his old neighborhood and is disturbed by how much has changed during his years in jail and how few people he now knows. He re-acquaints with Pachanga, a fellow gangster, who lists their friends who have either died or been sent to prison. Carlito then reluctantly accompanies his young cousin Guajiro to a big drug deal at a bar. However, the gang has already killed Guajiro's boss and they kill him as well. Carlito ends up having to shoot his way out, killing or seriously wounding all of the gang members. Once the dust settles, he takes Guajiro's $30,000 drug money from the deal and buys into a nightclub owned by a gambling addict named Saso, after a tip from Kleinfeld.

Now running the club, he begins to save every penny possible. He brings in his friend Pachanga as his right-hand security man. He also encounters Benny Blanco, an obnoxious young gangster from the Bronx who considers Carlito an inspiration and a possible business partner, but Carlito is uninterested. Carlito finds Gail, a former girlfriend whose dream was to be a Broadway dancer, and they meet with some awkwardness.

Meanwhile, Kleinfeld, now taking cocaine and drinking extensively, goes to a prison barge to meet with a mob-boss client, Anthony "Tony T" Taglialucci. Tony believes that Kleinfeld stole a million dollars from him that was supposed to be used for a payoff. Angry and in poor health, he tells Kleinfeld the phone number of his son Frankie and gives him an ultimatum: use his personal boat to break him out of prison, or have a contract put on him.

Lalin, a former friend also recently out of jail, arrives in the club to greet Carlito. However, Carlito discovers a "wire" on Lalin and that he was sent by District Attorney Norwalk to gain evidence for some new allegations of dealing that have been made against him. However, he rejects the violence of his youth and spares Lalin any harm. Carlito then follows up on Lalin's comment about having seen Gail dance in an artistic stage show on Broadway, but is surprised to find Gail actually pole-dancing in a strip show.

Kleinfeld later develops a love interest with Benny Blanco's girl, Steffie, who works at Carlito's nightclub. Benny, while waiting for Steffie, grows more frustrated with Carlito's constant rejection of him and approaches him. Carlito tells Benny face-to-face that he is a low-life punk and to leave him and his friends alone. Benny lunges forward and chokes Steffie, but Kleinfeld, high on cocaine, pulls out a gun and threatens to kill him, throwing the crowd into chaos. Carlito intervenes and Benny is manhandled into the office upstairs. He threatens to kill Carlito, who strikes him in the face and sends him crashing down a flight of stairs. Pachanga and Kleinfeld both feel that Carlito should kill Benny on the spot, but, like Lalin previously, Carlito decides to let Benny go, alienating Pachanga.

Kleinfeld throws a party at his summer house, but his cocaine and alcohol addiction does him no favours. A nervous wreck, he begs for Carlito's help with Tony T's prison bust. Carlito, seeing himself indebted to Kleinfeld, reluctantly agrees to help him. Later that night, Carlito makes love to Gail in her apartment and she joins him at the nightclub the next night. Kleinfeld embarrasses her in front of everybody and lets the prison bust slip, causing a heated rift between Carlito and Gail, who maintains she can never trust him again about his vows to go clean.

Carlito joins a coked-up Kleinfeld with Frankie Taglialucci to retrieve Tony T. from the buoy. However, Kleinfeld maniacally batters Tony to death and also slits Frankie's throat, dumping both of their bodies in the sea. Carlito, realizing the dangerousness of Kleinfeld's transgression, severs his ties with him and decides to leave town with Gail. Saso informs him that Pachanga is disillusioned by him and that there are rumours he is spying for Benny Blanco, but Carlito is not interested.

However, the next day, Kleinfeld gets stabbed in the chest at his office by two mobsters, but survives the attack. After Carlito learns of the attack, he is taken into District Attorney Norwalk's office. The police play an interview tape of Kleinfeld making the original allegations against Carlito that Lalin was garnering evidence for, and even offering to testify against him. They know that Kleinfeld and Carlito were both on the boat when the Taglialuccis were murdered, but Carlito refuses to be a snitch, despite Kleinfeld's betrayal and luxurious offers of immunity and plane-tickets to the Bahamas.

Carlito goes to the hospital to learn the truth from Kleinfeld's own lips. On the way he notices a suspicious man dressed as a police officer. Kleinfeld admits to attempting to sell out Carlito because a man needs to look out first and foremost for himself. While pretending to advise Kleinfeld with a gun hidden under a pillow, Carlito deftly unloads it and leaves. The suspicious police officer turns out to be Tony T.'s other son, Vincent "Vinnie" Taglialucci, seeking vengeance for the death of his brother and father. Kleinfeld attemps to shoot him but the gun clicks and Vinnie shoots him in the head, killing him, as Carlito coldly throws his bullets into the bin outside.

He then buys train tickets to Miami for himself and Gail, who is pregnant with his child. He returns to the club intent on getting his money and getting out. Once there, however, he is greeted by a group of Italian gangsters led by Vinnie Taglialucci, who spotted Carlito earlier in the hospital. The Italians know that he is involved, but before they have a chance to do anything, Carlito manages to slip out through a back way. A wild chase ensues where the Italians pursue him throughout the city's subway system and into Grand Central Terminal, where the train Carlito and Gail will be taking is about to leave.

Carlito nearly manages to give them the slip, but is spotted and drawn into a wild gunfight where he manages to kill off all of his pursuers except Vinnie, who is shot down by police while chasing Carlito. Carlito runs for the train where Gail and Pachanga are excitedly waiting for him. However, he is unexpectedly ambushed by a disguised Benny Blanco, who shoots Carlito several times in the abdomen with a silenced gun. Pachanga admits to the dying Carlito that he is now working for Blanco, only to be shot in turn by him, who then disappears. Carlito hands a tearful Gail the money and tells her to escape with their unborn child and start a new life elsewhere. The film ends with Carlito being wheeled away on a gurney as he stares at a billboard with a Caribbean beach and a picture of a woman. The billboard then comes to life in his mind and the woman, who is clearly Gail, starts dancing as Carlito slowly passes away.

Production

Pacino first heard about Carlito Brigante in a YMCA gym in New York in 1973. Pacino was working out for his movie Serpico when he met Supreme Court Judge Edwin Torres (the author who was writing the novels Carlito's Way and After Hours). When the novels were completed Al read them and liked them, especially the character of Carlito.[2] Inspiration for the novels came from Torres' background, things that were most familiar to him: the East Harlem barrio where he was born and raised in an atmosphere of racial gangs, drugs and poverty.[3] In 1989, Pacino faced a $6 million lawsuit from producer Elliott Kastner. Kastner claimed Pacino had gone back on an agreement to star in his version of a Carlito movie with Marlon Brando as criminal lawyer David Kleinfeld. The suit was dropped and the project was abandoned.[2]

Pacino went to producer Martin Bregman with the intention of getting a Carlito film made.[4] First thing on the list was to get a script written that would portray Carlito Brigante's world and provide a suitable showcase for Pacino's talents.[4] David Koepp had just finished writing the script for Bregman's forthcoming The Shadow when producer Michael S. Bregman suggested him to write the script for Carlito's Way.[5] The decision came that the screenplay would be based on the second novel After Hours. Carlito at this stage would match closer with Pacino's age.[6] Although based primarily on the second novel, the title Carlito's Way remained,[6] mainly because of the existence of Martin Scorsese's movie After Hours.[5] Bregman would work closely with Koepp for two years to develop the shooting script for Carlito's Way.[5]

Koepp wrestled with the voice-over throughout the writing process. Initially the voice-over was to take place in the hospital, but De Palma suggested the train station platform.[7] The hospital scenes were written 25 to 30 times because the actors had trouble with the sequence, with Pacino even thinking that Carlito would not go to the hospital. With one final re-write Koepp managed to make the scene work to Pacino's satisfaction.[7] In the novels Kleinfeld does not die, but De Palma has a huge sense of justice and retribution. He could not have Carlito killed off and have Kleinfeld live.[7]

At one point, The Long Good Friday director, John Mackenzie, was linked with the film. When Carlito's Way and its sequel After Hours were optioned, Martin Bregman had Abel Ferrara in mind. However, when Bregman and Ferrara parted ways, De Palma was brought in. Bregman explained that this decision was not about "getting the old team back together", rather than making use of the best talent available.[2] De Palma, reluctantly, read the script and as soon as Spanish-speaking characters cropped up he feared it would be Scarface all over again.[8] He said that he did not want to make another Spanish-speaking gangster movie.[2] When De Palma finally did read it all the way through, he realized it was not what he thought it was. De Palma liked the script and envisioned it as a noir movie.[5] Bregman supervised casting throughout the various stages of pre-production, and carefully selected the creative team who would make the film a reality. This included production designer Richard Sylbert, editor Bill Pankow, costume designer Aude Bronson-Howard and director of photography Stephen Burum.[9]

Initially, filming began on March 22, 1993, though the first scheduled shoot, the Grand Central Station climax, had to be changed when Pacino showed up on crutches. Instead, the tension-building pool hall sequence, where Pacino accompanies his young cousin Guajiro on an ill-fated drug deal, started the production.[10] Because the film was heavily character based and featured little action, the early pool sequence had to be elaborate and set up right. A huge amount of time was spent setting it up and filming it.[8] After the film studio had viewed a cut of the pool hall sequence, a note was passed onto the crew stating that they felt the scene was too long. De Palma spent more time adding to the sequence and with the help of editor Bill Pankow made it work. The producers came back saying "much better shorter."[7]

Apart from the poster sequence, which was shot in Florida, the entire movie was filmed on location in New York. De Palma roamed Manhattan searching for suitable visual locations. A tenement on 115th Street became the site of Carlito's homecoming: the barrio scene. The courtroom, in which Carlito thanks the prosecutor, was shot in Judge Torres's workplace, the State Supreme Court Building at 60 Centre Street.[10] The Club Paradise was initially in a West Side brownstone as the model for the book's postprandial premises. But this was considered too cramped for filming. A multi-level bistro club designed by De Palma took shape at the Kaufman-Astoria Studios in Long Island City, in a style of 1970's art deco disco.[11]

Tony Taglialucci's escape from Rikers Island, a night shoot mid-river was considered impossible. Instead, the production used a Brooklyn shipyard where Kleinfeld's boat was lowered into an empty "lock" into which river water was pumped. Smoke machines and towers of space lights were installed.

For a climactic finale, De Palma staged a chase from the platform of the Harlem-125th Street (Metro-North) Station to the escalators of Grand Central Terminal. For the shoot, trains were re-routed and timed so that Pacino and his pursuers could dart from car to hurtling car.[11] The length of the escalator scene during the climactic shoot out at Grand Central Station caused a headache for editor Pankow. He had to piece together the sequences so that the audience would be so tied up in the action that they would not be thinking about how long the escalator was running.[12]

Cast

Al Pacino (Carlito), Penelope Ann Miller (Gail), and Sean Penn (Kleinfeld).

Reception

Carlito's Way wrapped on July 20, 1993, and was released on 3 November 1993.[15] Critical response to the theatrical release was somewhat lukewarm. The film was criticized for re-treading old ground,[16] mainly De Palma's own Scarface and The Untouchables.[17][18] Roger Ebert stated in his review that the film is one of De Palma's finest with some of the best set-pieces he has done.[18] Patrick Doyle was praised on his scoring of the film soundtrack, which was described as "elegiac" and "hauntingly beautiful," which "displays Doyle as one of the major talents of modern film scoring."[19] Peter Travers (of Rolling Stone) criticised the film for Pacino's "Rican" accent slipping into his "Southern drawl from Scent of a Woman", "De Palma's erratic pacing and derivative shootouts" and "what might have been if Carlito's Way had forged new ground and not gone down smokin' in the shadow of Scarface."[20]

On the Siskel & Ebert show, Ebert gave the film a thumbs up while Siskel gave it a thumbs down.[20] Owen Gleiberman (from Entertainment Weekly) described the film as "a competent and solidly unsurprising urban-underworld thriller" and is "okay entertainment," but went on to say that the plot would have worked better "as a lean and mean Miami Vice episode."[21] The film currently has a fresh rating of 81% on the Rotten Tomatoes review site.[22]

Bregman was surprised about some of the negative reviews, but stated that some of the same reviewers have since "retracted" their views upon further discussions of the film.[4] A few weeks before the film's premiere, De Palma told the crew not to get their hopes up about the film's reception. He correctly predicted that Pacino, having just won an Oscar, would be criticized; Koepp, having just done Jurassic Park, would "suck"; Penn would be "brilliant" because he had not done anything for a while; and he himself, having not been forgiven for The Bonfire of the Vanities, would not quite be embraced.[7]

Carlito's Way premiered with an opening weekend box office taking of over $9 million. At the end of its theatrical run, the film had grossed over $36 million domestically and $63 million worldwide.[23] Sean Penn and Penelope Ann Miller both received Golden Globe nominations for their respective roles as Kleinfeld and Gail.[24] The post cinematic appreciation of the film was later highlighted when the French publication Cahiers du cinéma named it as the Best film of the 1990s.[16][25]

Cultural influence

Although the film was not considered a success with its initial theatrical run the film was popular on home video and gained a growing fan base.[16] Carlito's Way's influence can be seen in many subsequent forms of media, be it music, television shows or video games. Ken Rosenberg of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and San Andreas video games was based on Sean Penn's portrayal of Kleinfeld. They look similar, talk in the same manner, have a similar build, have the same clothing style and display similar traits of drug use and increasing paranoia.[26] The character Benny Blanco is parodied in the MMORPG World of Warcraft with the Defias thug "Benny Blanco" in Westfall.[27]

A clip of Carlito shouting "Here comes the pain!" is used in the song "(sic)" by Slipknot.[28] Rapper Jay-Z has used samples of Carlito's dialogue in some of his songs including "Intro/A Million And One Questions/Rhyme No More", "Brooklyn's Finest",[29] and Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life. Carlito's ending monologue is sampled on Ghostface Killa's album Ironman. In the 2009 album "Loso's Way" by American hip hop artist Fabolous the track listings included a song entitled "Pachanga" which references to Carlito's friend, Pachanga betraying him. Evident in the hook's lyrics "A Love changes, a thug changes and best friends become strangers, Pachangas"

An additional sample of dialogue from the film can be found in Living Legends' song "Gotta Question For Ya" from their album Almost Famous, beginning with the line "Can you come with me?".[30]

Music

Patrick Doyle composed the original score, while Musical supervisor Jellybean Benitez supplemented the soundtrack with elements of salsa, merengue and other authentic styles.[9]

Score

Carlito's Way: Original Motion Picture Score
Soundtrack by Patrick Doyle
Released 1993
Genre Soundtrack
Label Varese Sarabande
No. Title Duration
1. Carlito's Way 05:17
2. Carlito And Gail 04:05
3. The Cafe 01:59
4. Laline 02:36
5. You're Over, Man 02:09
6. Where's My Cheesecake? 02:12
7. The Buoy 04:04
8. The Elevator 01:45
9. There's An Angle Here 02:18
10. Grand Central 10:08
11. Remember Me 04:52

Soundtrack

Carlito's Way: Music From The Motion Picture
Soundtrack by Various Artists
Released November 9, 1993
Genre Soundtrack
Label Sony
No. Title Artist
1. I Love Music The O'Jays
2. Rock The Boat The Hues Corporation
3. That's The Way I Like It KC and the Sunshine Band
4. Rock Your Baby Ed Terry
5. Parece Mentira Marc Anthony
6. Backstabbers The O'Jays
7. TSOP-The Sounds Of Philadelphia MFSB
8. Got To Be Real Cheryl Lynn
9. Lady Marmalade Labelle
10. Pillow Talk Sylvia
11. El Watusi Ray Barretto
12. Oye Como Va Santana
13. You Are So Beautiful Billy Preston

Releases

The film has been released on VHS and LaserDisc standard and widescreen versions.[22] It was later released on DVD in 2004,[31] with an Ultimate Edition following in 2005.[32] The Ultimate Edition DVD includes deleted scenes, an interview with De Palma, a making-of documentary and more.[33] In 2007 an HD DVD version was released, which features the same bonus material as the Ultimate Edition.[34] The film was released on Blu-ray on May 18, 2010.

Prequel

Edwin Torres' first novel Carlito's Way was filmed and released direct-to-video in 2005, under the title Carlito's Way: Rise to Power. Although critically panned, Torres did give the film his blessing and considers it to be quite an accurate adaptation of the first half of his novel, with a planned sequel for the second half in the works.[35] It stars Jay Hernandez as Carlito, with Mario Van Peebles, Michael Joseph Kelly, Luis Guzmán, Jaclyn DeSantis, Sean Combs, Burt Young, and Domenick Lombardozzi also appearing. The story is set in 1969, as three prisoners, Earl (Van Peebles), Rocco (Kelly) and Carlito (Hernandez), control their criminal empire within their cell. Upon their release, they soon take control of the drug trade in Spanish Harlem.[36]

Notes

  1. ↑ The name was changed to avoid title-conflict with a film that had already been made by the same name
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Hot Dog magazine, August 2000, P. 30.
  3. ↑ Carlito's Way Press Pack, p. 2.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Bregman, Martin. (2004). The Making of Carlito's Way. [DVD]. Universal. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Carlito's Way Press Pack, p. 4.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Torres, Edwin. (2004). The Making of Carlito's Way. [DVD]. Universal. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 Koepp, David. (2004). The Making of Carlito's Way. [DVD]. Universal. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 De Palma, Brian. (2004). The Making of Carlito's Way. [DVD]. Universal. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Carlito's Way Press Pack", p. 7.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Hot Dog magazine, August 2000, p. 33.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Carlito's Way Press Pack", p. 8.
  12. ↑ Pankow, Bill. (2004). The Making of Carlito's Way. [DVD]. Universal. 
  13. ↑ Kelly, Richard T. (2005) Sean Penn: His Life and Times. Cannongate Publishers. p. 273.
  14. ↑ Carlito's Way Press Pack, p. 6.
  15. ↑ Hot Dog magazine, August 2000, p. 34.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Seitz, Matt Zoller. "Carlito's Way". www.reverseshot.com. http://www.reverseshot.com/article/carlitos_way. Retrieved 2008-03-26. 
  17. ↑ Berardinelli, James (1993). "Review by Berardinelli". www.reelviews.net. http://www.reelviews.net/movies/c/carlitos.html. Retrieved 2008-03-26. 
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Ebert, Roger (1993-12-11). "Roger Ebert review". rogerebert.com. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19931112/REVIEWS/311120302/1023. Retrieved 2008-03-26. 
  19. ↑ "Carlito's Way score". www.soundtrack-express.com. http://www.soundtrack-express.com/osts/carlito.htm. Retrieved 2008-03-26. 
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Travers, Peter. "Rolling Stone review". Rolling Stone. http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/5947281/review/5947282/carlitos_way. Retrieved 2008-04-16. 
  21. ↑ Gleiberman, Owen. "Entertainment Weekly review". Entertainment Weekly. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,308638,00.html. Retrieved 2008-04-16. 
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 "Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/carlitos_way/. Retrieved 2008-04-16. 
  23. ↑ "Carlito's Way box office". Box Office Mojo. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=carlitosway.htm. Retrieved 2008-03-26. 
  24. ↑ "Awards". IMDb. http://imdb.com/title/tt0106519/awards. Retrieved 2008-03-26. 
  25. ↑ Villella, Fiona A.. "A Revelation: Carlito's Way". www.sensesofcinema.com. http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/6/carlito.html. Retrieved 2008-03-26. 
  26. ↑ "Carlito's Way movie connections". IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106519/movieconnections. Retrieved 2008-05-15. 
  27. ↑ "Benny Blanco reference". Blizzplanet. http://www.blizzplanet.com/content/91/. Retrieved 2008-05-15. 
  28. ↑ "Slipknot reference". Black Goat. http://www.black-goat.com/facts.php. Retrieved 2008-05-15. 
  29. ↑ O'Neal, Sean. "(sic) Lyrics". AV Club.com. http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/random_rules_cadence_weapon. Retrieved 2008-05-15. 
  30. ↑ "Living Legends reference". Script-o-Rama. http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/c/carlitos-way-script-transcript.html. Retrieved 2010-06-01. 
  31. ↑ "Carlito's Way at Amazon". www.amazon.co.uk. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Carlitos-Way-Al-Pacino/dp/B0001IMCRU. Retrieved 2008-04-10. 
  32. ↑ "Carlito's Way at DVD Times". www.dvdtimes.co.uk. http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=57777. Retrieved 2008-04-10. 
  33. ↑ Barsanti, Chris. "Film Critic DVD review". Filmcritic.com. http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/reviews/Carlitos-Way. Retrieved 2008-04-10. 
  34. ↑ "HD DVD review at High-Def Digest". High-Def Digest. http://hddvd.highdefdigest.com/1035/carlitosway.html. Retrieved 2008-04-10. 
  35. ↑ "Carlito's Way Rise to Power". Carlito's Way Rise to Power.com. http://hddvd.highdefdigest.com/1036/carlitoswayrisetopower.html. Retrieved 2008-04-10. 
  36. ↑ "Rise to Power review at High-Def Digest". High-Def Digest. http://hddvd.highdefdigest.com/1036/carlitoswayrisetopower.html. Retrieved 2008-04-10. 

References

External links

Films directed by Brian De Palma
1960s
The Wedding Party (1963) • Murder a la Mod (1968) • Greetings (1968)
1970s
Hi, Mom! (1970) • Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972) • Sisters (1973) • Phantom of the Paradise (1974) • Obsession (1976) • Carrie (1976) • The Fury (1978) • Home Movies (1979)
1980s
Dressed to Kill (1980) • Blow Out (1981) • Scarface (1983) • Body Double (1984) • Wise Guys (1986) • The Untouchables (1987) • Casualties of War (1989)
1990s
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) • Raising Cain (1992) • Carlito's Way (1993) • Mission: Impossible (1996) • Snake Eyes (1998)
2000s
Mission to Mars (2000) • Femme Fatale (2002) • The Black Dahlia (2006) • Redacted (2007)