Word: pacino
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...danger play on the dramatic planes of her wide-screen face, which looks like Diane Sawyer's pressed against a windshield. When her lips crack open into a wide, diagonal smile, some Mae West line seems ready to emerge. "Come up and see me sometime." And Frank Keller (Al Pacino), a good cop with no life, does just that. Though Helen is a suspect in the grisly murder case he is investigating, he can't wait to get to her. The feeling must be mutual: before making love to Frank, she strips off her red jacket with the urgency...
...LOVE. An infusion of wit and imagination raises this police film above the rank and file. One of New York's finest (Al Pacino) pursues a serial killer who is stalking womanizers; the likeliest suspect (Ellen Barkin) is also the best bet to comfort our hero...
...LOVE. An infusion of wit and imagination raises this police film above the rank and file. One of New York's finest (Al Pacino) pursues a serial killer who is stalking womanizers; the likeliest suspect (Ellen Barkin) is also the best bet to comfort our hero...
What saves Frank Keller (Al Pacino) from the depths is wit. He is first seen - as host of a church baseball brunch at which the Yankees have been announced to appear. They do not. What does appear is a squad of New York City's finest, who bust everyone in the place. For Keller had invited baseball fans who also happen to have made the most-wanted list...
...pictures, Hackman rates six as really good: Bonnie and Clyde (Buck Barrow, Clyde's elder brother), The French Connection (an Oscar as New York cop Popeye Doyle), Scarecrow (on the road with Al Pacino), The Conversation (Francis Coppola's study of a lonely surveillance expert), Under Fire (as a TIME correspondent in Nicaragua) and Mississippi Burning. His FBI agent bears traces of early Hackmen. Anderson, like Buck Barrow, repeats favorite anecdotes and plays dumber than he is; like Popeye, he wears stumpy ties and catches bad guys on his own obsessive terms. And at the end of each sentence...