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...GRIFTERS. Cold and merciless as an assassin's blade, this adaptation of Jim Thompson's 1963 novel traces the slug tracks of three con artists who play their deadliest tricks on one another. Anjelica Huston and Annette Bening make two splendid carnivores; John Cusack, as the man trying to tame them, naturally gets devoured...
Atlanta 96, New York 82 Chicago 110,Milwaukee 97 Chicago 89,Dallas 81 L.A.Clippers 130,Huston...
WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART. In his portrayal of a director very like John Huston, Clint Eastwood subverts two rogue images: his own and that of a lovable auteur. He looks into the heart of maleness and finds equal parts arrogance and bluff...
...film's largest strength is its fully dimensional re-creation of the man's spirit, about which Eastwood is thoughtfully, often amusingly, ambivalent. Huston's love of risk and contempt for caution, qualities that brought out the best in people who co-ventured with him over dangerous ground, are admiringly stated. In one of the movie's best passages, Wilson deliberately picks a fight he knows he will lose with a white racist in an exclusive African club. Sometimes, he says, bloodily staggering away from the encounter, you have to volunteer for losing causes or "your guts will turn...
...rogues' gallery of gangster films this fall, GoodFellas and Miller's Crossing blaze and strut their way out front. -- Clint Eastwood tackles the myth of filmmaker John Huston...