Millers Crossing (September 21, 1990)

Miller's Crossing (1990) is a gangster film directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. The action in Miller's Crossing takes place in 1929 in an unnamed American city (most of the exteriors were shot in New Orleans, taking advantage of that city's vintage architecture and streetcar line). Its convoluted plot depicts the journey of Tom Regan, the right-hand man of the boss of an Irish crime gang. Tom is an ambivalent, enigmatic protagonist, who may or may not be plotting against his boss. Either way, he ends up caught in, and partly causing, a bloody gang war.

Miller's Crossing is a highly allusive film that contains references to many other gangster films and film noir; for example, the opening shot is a reference to the opening of The Godfather. Many of its situations, characters and dialog are derived from the work of Dashiell Hammett, especially his novel The Glass Key and the 1942 movie that was adapted from it.

In 2005, TIME Magazine chose Miller's Crossing as one of the best 100 movies made since the inception of TIME. TIME movie critic Richard Corliss said that the movie is a "noir with a touch so light, the film seems to float on the breeze like the Frisbee of a fedora sailing through the forest".

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