Word: heists
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...time of Reagan, the "evil empire" had long been a paper tiger. He told lies but with such acting skill that he got away with it. In fact, the presidency was the best role he ever got. He was taking a nap when his administration pulled off the money heist with Iran-Contra. Didn't know a thing about it. Gave us enormous debt to carry. Beverly Petrilli North East...
...GOOD THIEF. The guardian of a young woman plans to steal rare paintings instead of cash. As an aging thief, the heist will be that last big crime he commits with his multicultural crew. Director Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, The Butcher Boy) adds jazz undertones to this remake of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Bob Le Flambeur. The Good Thief screens Wednesday, August...
...free fall. From that point on, he and other characters overindulge in every imaginable recreational drug?with no guilt or ill effect. After a night of acid or heroin, MM is fresh as a daisy and deadly as a daisy cutter, ready to set up an international arms heist, polish off a cover story about it for his magazine and have time left over for an orgy...
...Chinese police have revealed details of what they are calling the largest theft of cultural artifacts in the history of the People's Republic?and the heist was allegedly an inside job. Li Haitao, who was head of security at the Waibamiao museum complex in the northeastern Chinese resort town of Chengde, has been accused of carting off 158 ancient relics, some of which ended up on the black market and at the Christie's auction house in Hong Kong, according to police. (Christie's says it researched ownership and found no evidence that the pieces were stolen...
What's this? A philosophical heist movie? Not exactly. Claude Klotz's script for Man on the Train has a wintry wit about it, and the modest incidents that define the two figures toying with transformation have a believable, saving naturalism. Director Patrice Leconte, whose specialty is lonely eccentrics (The Girl on the Bridge, Monsieur Hire), is at his best with these impeccable actors--a noncommittal observer of half-realized dreams and, in this case, the creator of an elegantly polished little film. --By Richard Schickel