Highly under rated dark comedy. Teri Garr is especially good here. Griffin Dunne was also in the fabulous "American Werewolf in London," and the seemingly now unknown satire "Search and Destroy (1995)," with Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken. Another devastatingly funny dark comedy.

@JamesVSCinema

11 күн бұрын

Really enjoyed all the character here!

@Tango_Elite

11 күн бұрын

Julie Cruise was in this too! Although more of a cameo.

@TerryNationB7

9 күн бұрын

I liked the little nod to American Werewolf in London when the cop in the subway reacts to Griffin Dunne's antics by saying "There must be a full moon tonight"

@jwoodard29

9 күн бұрын

@@TerryNationB7 good catch.

@jwoodard29

9 күн бұрын

@@Tango_Elite Tie in to David Lynch's world.

Saw this in the theater and had no idea what I was getting myself into... what a ride!!! Left the film feeling elated over what I just saw.

The movie has held up really well for almost 40 years. It's still super funny. I watched it just a couple months ago at a cinema screening and had a blast with it.

Scorsese’s best, fucking all-timer

@JamesVSCinema

11 күн бұрын

Heavily enjoyed this one!

I don't know if you've seen it, but I always felt a spiritual sequel to this one is BRINGING OUT THE DEAD. Another Scorsese lesser known, underrated, creative gem of a film. EDIT: It's just come out that a new 4K restoration is coming. We won!!!

@jculver1674

11 күн бұрын

Another Scorsese movie makes traveling through New York feel like a trip through Hell.

@EdDunkle

11 күн бұрын

Yeah, Bring Out The Dead has some wild manic energy. Scorsese and Nicholas Cage for the win.

One of my favorite films! Over the years I have recommended film many times. How could such a great Martin Scorsese film be this unknown!?

When this movie first came out, I was bewildered by its lukewarm reception by both critics and audiences, because I thought it was hilariously insane. I need to watch the whole thing again now...

FINALLY! This is one of my favorites, very inspirational

@JamesVSCinema

11 күн бұрын

Great choice homie! I really dug this film!

This is one of my favorites movies and since it's so obscure I was shocked to see this video pop up on my feed. Thanks for the reaction man, I hope you enjoyed your watch!

@TTM9691

11 күн бұрын

Ditto!

The best thing was this was a straight up independent film that Scorsese was able to make without any micromanagement from the studios and helped his career get back on track after it became a hit, and more importantly helped him become sober. This is an all timer in terms of his work for sure that I'm super glad you were able to check out, James.

@TTM9691

11 күн бұрын

Totally agree. Also worth noting: Scorsese's shortest film! A guy who is known for 3 - 4 hour films brings this one at 90 minutes.....credits included!

In film school one of the basic narrative lessons was that if you establish a character's need and delay/disrupt the fulfillment of that need, you can lure the viewer across a long, winding path. This film proves you can use that principle to pull the viewer along through the most absurd detours.

All Time Favorite Comedy. Without a doubt.

One of my all-time favorite movies. THANK YOU for being among the first movie reactors to take it on! Your take is extremely perceptive, as always. Sharing!

This was my favorite movie when it was released on VHS. The surreal quality is reflected in the direction, action, writing and score. I spent a lot of time in New York in the wee hours of the morning and this movie captures that strange, dreamlike (and nightmarish) feel. My twelve block walk to a subway station in Ozone Park at 3 am featured one such nightmarish and bizarre visual that still sticks with me to this day and that might be the reason why I now have a hard time watching this movie. That's an extreme compliment for the movie as it nailed its atmosphere.

When the casting cracks in front of his office, I feel it's shows a metamorphosis within his life that continues as normal even though, somehow, it has changed. And Scorsese recognizes better to not try to explain it any further.

Definitely one of my favorite Scorsese films. Absolutely bonkers. Rosanna Arquette's performance is a peak for me. The entire cast is great.

just finished listening to Griffin Dunne's new memoir (The Friday Afternoon Club ) where he talks about trying to get this film made. He had been brainstorming with an unknown director, Tim Burton, for months who he'd found after seeing Vincent, a 6 minute short. Meanwhile, his agent had pitched it to Scorsese who agreed to direct. Griffen wrote that the day he met up with Tim to explain his dilemma, Tim showed up with some little set design thing and was all enthusiastic - but after Griffin told him about Scorsese, he gave him his blessing. Soon after, Tim Burton was making blockbusters. (I think you'd like the book)

I love this highly underrated movie

@JamesVSCinema

11 күн бұрын

I’m on the same team friend 🤘🏽

HOLY SHIT!!! So happy to see THIS film on YOUR list. Here we go....

"Would that sculpture represent him, then?" GOOD LORD, MAN. Your perceptivity is off the charts!

Michael Clayton, Barton Fink, La Haine and now After Hours - you consistently pick my cult favourites that everyone else seems to always overlook. Good stuff, man, this movie's atmosphere is inimitable. Although if you do want something with a similar vibe, crossed with a nuclear war scare theme, try Miracle Mile.

This movie is a nonstop inescapable anxiety dream and hands down my favorite Scorseez.

This is in my top 3 for Marty movies, so underrated.

This came almost a full decade after Taxi Driver. I forget all the details, but this was done after Scorsese's first attempt at making Last Temptation of Christ fell apart. His frustrations from that experience informed the sensibility of After Hours heavily.

This film shows you what could happen if you attempt to break out of your mundane life. It may be chaotic and even terrifying but when he is an old man looking back on his life, this will be likely be valued as a memory unlike any other.

Both a very dark comedy, and a scarily realistic view of what SoHo was like back in the 80's. Now it's gentrified, and none of these characters could afford to live there, but back then, it was a very interesting place not fit for anyone who didn't live there. Always enjoyed this film.

A REALLY underrated film in my opinion! It’s an insane blast from start to finish, and I love the constant feelings of stress and confusion (almost like Uncut Gems or Good Time’s vibe in a weird way)

@JamesVSCinema

11 күн бұрын

I agree!! Great films to bounce off from too. Reminds me of EraserHead in a way too.

@007wars6

11 күн бұрын

@@JamesVSCinema oh yeah, great point! I hadn’t even considered that!

@jculver1674

11 күн бұрын

The Safdies were definitely influenced by this movie, no doubt.

The guy who wrote this also wrote another '80s NYC classic with Nicolas Cage (totally unhinged) called Vampire's Kiss that is amazing and absolutely worth checking out..

I was watching this yesterday, an underatted Scorsese film.

@JamesVSCinema

11 күн бұрын

Yeah it really sticks with you!

Most underrated movie of all time

First saw this movie in the theatre! Not many people in attendance! About five minutes in, people began to exit! I love this movie and have owned it on vhs and dvd!

This movie is a crazy deep cut

Good pick! Soho in the '80's was adventure land.

I like the Liminial Space term! Eaxtaly what it is. I feel a bit lost, and strange people come out in strange cicumstances. As if I'm somebody else too.

Also check out "Into the Night" with Jeff Goldblum & Michelle Pfeiffer and "Something Wild" with Jeff Daniels & Melanie Griffith. All 3 of these movies came out within a year of each other and have similar themes.

Wow, you REALLY got this movie! Definitely so NYC, NYC at night, downtown in the 80s.....so on the money. Marty did Raging Bull, then King Of Comedy, then After Hours. My favorite run of Scorsese movies, I just remember being blown away by his career choices during those years. Also, totally on the money thinking of Lynch (Blue Velvet came out the next year), also stuff like the Coen Brothers "Blood Simple" and "Raising Arizona", which I always equate this with. (and other 80s movies like "The Thin Blue Line", "Repo Man", etc). Fantastic reaction, you didn't miss anything on this one!!!

Glad you are one to dive into some of these more obscure films. This one is one of my favorites.

Into The Night (1985) starring Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Pfeiffer

Yooooo I remember that old-school NYC cable box

Had a greta time with Martin Scorsese more underrated films! Want to vote on what I should watch next? Click here! www.patreon.com/jamesvscinema Have a great day!

@davewolf6256

10 күн бұрын

One of my top 10 favorite movies, my favorite Scorsese movie, and I’m sorry I was one day late.

@MRLUTHOOOR

9 күн бұрын

It’s clearly not a drama or a romance. lol what? Who called that? Comedy thriller perhaps

This might be my favorite movie. It's at least in the top 5. My understanding is that the first time Scorsese tried to make The Last Temptation of Christ in 1983 it fell apart. (He was subsequently able to go back and finish the film in 1988.) This movie reflected how Scorsese was feeling after that project collapsed.

Holy shit, one of my fav movies and it never gets talked about let alone reacted to. I’ve had fever dream nights like this movie 😶it’s so good. What a great channel bravo 👏🏽

Ngl I literally JUST watched this movie for the first time and I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it, one of the most interesting Scorsese films out there. Crazy blend of dark comedy and surrealism portrayed in the downtown NYC area at night. Definitely in My Top 10 Favorite Scorsese films ever.

Saw the thumbnail and I laughed at the thought about how you would be tripping on this one. :D

I saw this over 30 years ago when I was a teenager. I always felt like I saw a lost masterpiece because I didn't know anyone else who had seen it. It would be many years later before I could talk to anyone about this lost classic.

oh man i love this one, managed to catch a screening of it at my local theater back on the 30th. fantastic film

Saw After Hours in the new release section at my local video store back in the 1980s and rented it many times. Great film.

Never seen this film but as a kid I was always fascinated by the box in the video store.

Ultimate nightmare! What is beautiful is it all happens on a weekday! Got to go to work in a few ours but, I can’t get home!

There characters are SO REAL ...Beside the more famous that lived in Downtown Manhattan were all the people hanging / working and enjoying one of the most creative environments ever. Your take on the maze that many artist live with / threw and caused was pretty spot on,,,,,

80s movies were on a whole other level back then. Just so good.

I grew up in New York state and lived only 45 minutes from the city itself. I have visited NYC many many times and can attest to the feeling as you put it, an 'euphoric anxiety'. Even though I've experienced the nightlife on a near regular basis, it's always a new adventure. And as a gay man, there's no shortage of thrills in the Big Apple. PS. those two leather clad men in the bar were real gay adult film stars.

Thank You Finally!!!! Been waiting for this one since discovering your channel...my favorite film of all time ❤

"You just have to be so G*d damn careful about everything you say!" May we all be blessed with our own bagel and cream cheese paperweight.

Beau is Afraid reminds me of this one ETA I am so glad your patrons have such good taste!

Dude! One of my favorites! Hope you liked it, too. Guess I'll find out.

I worked in the movie theater when this was out. Always liked it :). I always seem to be drawn to movies that have circular themes or onion (and de-onion) themselves in an interesting way. There's also this name in the credits I loved from the Mob list: Rockets Redglare Don't know if it's a pseudonym but all these years I still remember you! :D

@EdDunkle

11 күн бұрын

Rockets Redglare's father and uncle were in the mob. Michael Morra (his birth name) had a crazy life. It might make a good film. Plus he was in "Stranger Than Paradise," one of my favorite films.

I get why it's been overshadowed by the more obvious Scorsese hits, but I just watched this for the first time this week and it's up there with his best work imo. one of the best dark comedies of all time in general.

This makes for a great double-feature with the early Keanu Reeves movie The Night Before. Very similar premise, and released just a few years later.

Awesome reaction of my favorite movie!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊

@JamesVSCinema

11 күн бұрын

Happy to hear it!

Tries to take the money from the sculpture that's made of money and you drop. "Has he become what the sculpture represents?" 🔥

Fun Depiction of Soho and Tribeca ,,,,,, I lived there during the time frame represented in the movie .....calling from the pay phone and catching the sock with the keys in it to get into someones loft. is a classic Downtown NYC move

A movie similar to this but very different and starts in New York is Stars and Bars. Daniel Day Lewis stars. You'd love it.

I recommended this movie long time ago with ghost dog: the way of the samurai Thank you

I wish he made more films like this.

Another Scorsese masterpiece. At the time after The King of Comedy Scorsese going to directing The Last Temptation of Christ but he didn't get the money to do the movie and almost got another downfall but when he got the After Hours script he's in back in the game. When the movie was released it was modest box office succes and the critics love it and in the Cannes film festival Scorsese won the best director awards for the movie. Trivia. This is the first time for Scorsese working with cinematography Michael Ballhaus and Music Composer Howard Shore.

The only Martin Scorcese movie I've seen that I actually liked.

Puts the Ted Lasso homage episode into perspective!

Thank for getting around to this film. So good. Another Scorsese film that feels like it coexists with this film's world is "Bringing out the dead", starring Nicholas Cage.

“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

This could be the McCallisters: How I Met Your Mother.

@James Have you seen The King of Comedy, yet? Another underrated Scorcese gem. After Hours is fantastic. I rented it in 1986 and loved it. I don’t think I’ve seen it since that first viewing. So good. I forgot about the Cheech and Chong cameo. I was watching your reaction and describing the film to my wife and telling her it reminded me of a Lynch film and then not a minute later you said the same thing in your commentary! I low key felt validated. 😊

I love this film; saw it multiple times in the theatre. It makes a great double feature with The King of Comedy, eh.

YOOOOOOOOOOOO

Great film, wild ride and worth it.

This is a movie I like to put on if I come home drunk but earlier than I expected, like maybe if I expected to get laid and didn’t

Top 5 Scorsese movie. I got that 4k Criterion a couple months ago.

WOW!!!!! Dropping everything to watch this! It won a "drama-romance" poll??? LOL. This ain't a drama, or a romance......I don't know WHAT this movie is, but anything that gets an "After Hours" reaction is fine by me!!! See you on the other side!!!

I love this movie, but I don't know many people that have seen it.

Random and unrelated, but I think you would enjoy Conan the Barbarian

@JamesVSCinema

11 күн бұрын

I’d love to check that out!

My favorite Scorsese movie

It is quite peculiar. And nobody seems to ever be talking about. Have you seen The King of Comedy? That is my favorite scorsese film. So awkward and funny.

top 5 Martin film imo.

I'm struck by the fact that you say early on that he is an interesting character and you are interested in his character, because I always thought of him as a blank space or a very passive character that things just happen to. I'll have to rethink that.

I have this weird relationship with this movie where I am extremely attracted to most of the characters, even actors who I have no interest in outside of it

Does his face take up the whole screen even on patrion when he starts talking or is that more watcher friendly? Please let me know. Looking for somebody to take the role of mr. Video since he went to jail lol

Loosely based on Kafka's, The Trial. Please review the version of, The Trial, with Kyle MacLachlan and Anthony Hopkins.

Dead person

@JamesVSCinema

11 күн бұрын

Relating that with his poster being put up and people wanting him dead.

@williamdavis8076

11 күн бұрын

@@JamesVSCinemaHoly shit you’re right, I never noticed that

PLEASE SOMEONE REACT TO MY FAVORITE 90S COMEDIES: GET SHORTY AND CAPTAIN RON

His suit his apartment the phone are all beige!!! His desire is anything that counters that …he is dull

Scorsese wasin a weird time in his life he had a Drug problem and was broke. And after "The King of Comedy" bombed (another Scorsese gem people now are discovering in today's times) no major Studio wanted to work with him. This was an independent film that nobody was interested in doing and he only did it as a director for hire gig and to prove to Big Studios he can still make good movies. It made a decent profit. Then the Micheal Jackson "Bad" Video and The Color of Money got hi career back on Track

Please watch Bringing Out The Dead from filmmaker Martin Scorsese and starring Nicolas Cage.

Even though I enjoyed this film, I really can't help but think about the fact that the screenwriter who wrote the script, Joseph Minion, actually PLAGIARIZED most of the film's plot from a 1980's radio segment by Joe Frank, called "Lies". It's true, look it up.

@wendydarling5790

11 күн бұрын

Whoa. I never seen any mention of Joe Frank. My all-time favorite artist, of any medium.

@evanpeltier

11 күн бұрын

@@wendydarling5790 Yeah, I know, same here. If you listen to the segment, he specifically mentions the cream cheese paper weight and the apartment keys. This is where Minion stole the idea from. Smh.

Scorsese's best.

Do you realize you're making basically the same face in every thumbnail?