I’m a tough grader so I expect y’all will disagree with many of the rankings and ratings. What’s a little meandering among friends? My Krewe du Vieux photo essay was a pain in the ass to process and I didn’t want to put Lamar through that again.Įach entry contains a mini-essay some concise and others meandering in nature. I decided to spare my editor the aggravation of cutting and pasting them. Google. I’ve also hyper-linked some names to their IMDb pages because I realize that not everyone is familiar with such offscreen film greats as with Bernard Hermann, Paul Schrader, or Anthony Mann.Īdditionally, I link to previews at the end of each piece. I filled in the blanks in consultation with Mr. I used Ed and Susan Poole’s Louisiana Film History as my primary source for setting and film location information. My Uncle Lou was NCIS and he never once drew his weapon let alone discharged it.īack to the list, it’s in reverse order and includes my ratings based on the classic 4-star format. As to NCIS: New Orleans I love Scott Bakula and hate the rest of the show. I’m also terribly fond of HBO’s gory vampire camp fest, True Blood. At some point, I need to write about David Simon’s Treme and its impact on how recent transplants view New Orleans. I’m bypassing television series set in the Gret Stet of Louisiana because that’s outside my self-imposed remit. I’m passing on several noteworthy films that were fleetingly set in Louisiana such as Easy Riderand Green Book. I’m also skipping some fine films that were filmed but not set here such as the Coen Brothers masterpiece Miller’s Crossing as well as Green Book. I don’t want too many people yelling at me on Twitter or Facebook. The list is light on plot summaries because I know how people on the internet are about spoilers. Since snark is my calling card, there are some films included that I do not like. This top 40 list reflects my own taste and excludes some interesting and even worthwhile movies.

This article has taken much longer than expected but it was worth the struggle. I learned to my chagrin how hard compiling and writing such a list is. I’m a big fan of Vulture’s lists and decided it was high time to do my own. I’m back with a non-Carnival related piece. It is, however, inspired by the theme of this year’s Bacchus parade: Starring Louisiana. It was their best theme in years and got me pondering movies that were set in the Gret Stet of Louisiana.

In the deep movie location