Tag: heist
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Gene Hackman: A Retrospective on the Greatest – A Film Review Friday Special Presentation
“You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, ‘Why didn’t I choose something else?’ But overall, I’m pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.” For a long while I’ve considered Gene Hackman to be the greatest…
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The Killing – Film Review Friday
The Killing (1956) dir. Stanley Kubrick “You know, I’ve often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They are admired and hero-worshipped, but there is always present underlying wish to see them destroyed at the peak of their glory.” The heist movie is one of those…