How Many Cocaine Movies Are There?
Ned Zeman’s Vanity Fair piece about the making of “The Blues Brothers” (“Soul Men”) reminds that there actually used to be a thing called a “cocaine movie” — a film that exuded a certain hyperness, a tone of manic extremity. Jeffrey Wells asks: ‘But how many cocaine movies were there outside of “The Blues Brothers” and Martin Scorsese’s “New York, New York“?’ Really? I can see the lines of Bolivian marching powder trailing across at least 50 percent of Hollywood movies from about 1975 to 1981.
