Jazmyne Moreno’s programming for Austin Film Society’s Lates series truly thrills me. How else does Austin’s cinephile population get introduced to offbeat Japanese neo-noir like Eiichi Kudo’s tale of a blues singer/private detective getting involved in mob mayhem? Not the director’s most known film – that award goes to shogunate drama 13 Assassins – but definitely his most indigo-shaded, Kudo’s picture fits in with other hard-done dude classics like Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye. Okay, okay: You had me at the navy hues, but now you’re telling me this whole thing stars a messy-haired guy in a rumbled long coat who can’t catch a break? Sold! – James Scott
Jan. 31 & Mon. 3
