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...keep on shooting. Blam! Blam! In this year's heralded crop of low-budget films from tyro directors, the outlaw is in. Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs: gangsters pull a heist, then engage in a long therapy session of bitchery and carnage. Tom Kalin's Swoon: those gay cutups of the '20s, Leopold and Loeb, are back, artier and hornier than ever. Stacy Cochran's My New Gun: doctor gives his restless wife a handgun; audience waits for it to go off. Add two other, more seasoned directors of outlaw movies -- Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant) and Hal Hartley (Simple...
...business district in one of the world's safest cities. But earlier this month, hundreds of terrified lunchtime pedestrians rushed for cover as four armed jewelry- store robbers opened fire to make their getaway with $1.3 million worth of gold and gems. Although two suspects were nabbed, the heist was one of the more spectacular of the 100-odd armed robberies committed in Hong Kong this year...
...Thomas Crown Affair--Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway star in this 1968 classic. In the opening scene, Thomas Crown (McQueen) masterminds a $2.6 million bank robbery of a Boston area bank. Director Norman Jewison skillfully uses split screens and bright light to build the drama for heist. But, the action at the outset is replaced by a well-planned investigation. An insurance investigator (Faye Dunaway), delves into the motives of the robber, eventually leading her to Crown...
...April 14, 1991, armed robbers raided Amsterdam's state-run Van Gogh Museum at night, cut the alarm system and spent 45 minutes picking out 20 works by the Dutch Impressionist. Thanks to a flat tire on the getaway car, the heist was short lived. Among the loot recovered 35 minutes later: The Potato Eaters, which had also been stolen in 1988, from another Dutch museum. Total worth of the take: about $500 million -- assuming that such famous hot potatoes could have been resold...
...peers at this aerobic cinema, as she proved a few years back with the weird, beautiful Near Dark. Here, though, limning the attempts of FBI agent Reeves to infiltrate Swayze's beach-bum bank gang, Bigelow often forsakes her wits. Naked babe nukes G-men. Hero weakly abets heist. Director defers climax for a little documentary on skydiving. So how do you rate a stunningly made film whose plot buys so blithely into macho mysticism that it threatens to turn into an endless bummer? Looks 10, Brains...