Word: heist
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...methods. Made with a uniquely personal purpose, Reconstruction gives a fresh approach to documentary filmmaking. It is a historical account told with a wonderfully subjective self-awareness, as it is the story of Lusztig’s own family, not just the powerful story of a politically motivated bank heist in Communist Romania...
...triad movie Too Many Ways to Be No. 1 has a devious structure that Alan Ayckbourn might envy: a layabout named Kau (Lau Ching-wan) is drawn into a heist scheme. Is it in China? Or in Taiwan? The two parts of this what-if scenario show the results, with some odd twists, as when the hoods laboriously seal their comrade's corpse behind a wall, then hear the sound of a beeper?it's the dead man's, which they need to get further instructions, and they buried it with him behind the wall. Wai visualized this complex farrago...
...years ago, he found a project that promised to be just the ticket: The Score, a crime flick that opens this week. And he didn't just get a cast, he got a Mount Rushmore of actors: Marlon Brando as Max, an elderly homosexual crook orchestrating the biggest heist of his career; Robert De Niro as an aging thief ready to retire from his life of crime; and Edward Norton as a smart young punk eager to begin...
...Niro and Norton also contributed their creative ideas. Unhappy with the film's heist scenes, De Niro recruited a technical consultant--a friend with a shady past who knew about cracking safes and such--to show the screenwriters how it should be done. "There's no point in doing it if there's no authenticity," says De Niro, whose character now blows the door off a safe the way a professional would--from the inside out, by pumping it full of water...
December 3, 1973: Thieves net 5,000 coins in a heist at the Fogg. Their value is reputedly close to $5 million...