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...should hail a movie that recalls creepy political thrillers of the mid-'70s, back when some films were made for grownups and the comfortable catharsis of a happy ending was not required - think of the panoramically cryptic worldview of The Parallax View and Three Days of the Condor, and of course, Chinatown. In its cataloguing and deft evocation of those films, and the director's entire body of work, The Ghost Writer may not be major Polanski, but it sure is essential Polanski...
...following Bob's lead by trying to distract and sedate our kids at the movie house. For three decades, Chan's footwork and brazenly masochistic showmanship were the foundation for sequences never topped in action-film history. Some of them - the shot in The Armour of God II: Operation Condor, for example, where Jackie drives his motorcycle off a riverside pier and leaps off in midair to catch onto the net of a passing mechanical crane - are shown here in clips, to establish Bob's espionage expertise. Other acrobatics, like the amazing descent down a four-story shopping-mall pole...
When I was doing the research for this book, I met so many extraordinary people who rescued species from the brink of extinction when everybody else laughed at them. One example is the California condor. At one time, there were just 12 of these birds left in the wild and one in captivity. Now there are 300. This bird would have gone but for a small group of people who would not give up. As long as we have people like that, there's hope for the future...
Director Sydney Pollack had a special relationship with star Robert Redford, whom he directed in seven films including Out of Africa, The Way We Were, and Three Days of the Condor. Redford spoke to TIME about his old friend, who died Monday of cancer...
...dark as his take on depression-era America, They Shoot Horses Don't They? But his filmography is marked most indelibly by the lush romanticism of Out of Africa (for which he won the Oscar) on the one hand, and by taut thrillers like Three Days of the Condor and The Firm on the other. It can be argued that the contradiction between those two modes is more apparent than real. High romance disorders the spirits of those who succumb to it; the implicit paranoia of the thriller disorders the very institutions of society. But I suspect the picture...