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...pick up the film. When Warner Bros. finally agreed to make it, they offered Beatty 40% of the total gross rather than the usual flat fee, thinking that it would save them money if the film flopped.At first the public was revolted by what it deemed to be the film??s glorification of violence. “Bonnie and Clyde” was not the first film to depict violence, but it was among the first film to celebrate it. The film??s final scene, in which the famous pair of Depression-era bank robbers...
...most entertaining card games in existence—poker. In “Deal,” Cates revisits the world of gambling that was the subject of his 2000 film “$pent,” which portrayed the broken world of a gambler. That film??s narrative fell apart by trying to weave together too many loose ends; “Deal” collapses at the other extreme, failing to explore the inner lives of its characters and trudging along slowly. Bret Harrison moves from a string of TV sitcom appearances...
...Bethel ’11. Despite the fact that Bethel and his collaborator—University of Chicago sophomore Jack L. Mayer—are still very young filmmakers, “Terminus” reveals a decisive and mature artistic consciousness. Inspired by the city of Atlanta, the film??s series of intertwined and unrelated vignettes create a personal feel, supported by deliberate cinematic choices made by Mayer as writer and director and Bethel as cinematographer and editor...
...that are begun but never completed, as well as narrative threads that are left unexplained. This not only adds to the sense that there is too much for the camera to capture; it also gives the viewer the opportunity to construct his or her own interpretation of the film??s meaning. In one scene, the character Malcolm has a photograph in his bathroom of another character’s artwork, though the two have never...
...Dreams of Sparrows,” the documentary’s associate producer, Saad Fakher, was killed by American military troops while driving on a highway in Iraq. A scene describing his death marked the climax of the final film screened during “Contemporary Iraqi Film?? series, a group of movies from Iraq shown in CGIS-S last Thursday through Saturday. Films included several documentaries, as well as the winning entries from Baghdad’s First International Iraq Short Film Festival in 2005. The movies were introduced by poet, novelist, and filmmaker Sinan Antoon...