Word: thief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latest in a series of carefully planned and superbly executed thefts that have netted criminals more than $30 million in less than three months. The professionalism displayed in the capers and the fact that, increasingly, guns are involved suggest that a more sophisticated and more daring class of thief is at work. "Criminals are stopping and thinking," says a London detective. "These jobs indicate planning. They are not just a matter of grabbing a wig and a sawed-off shotgun...
There are some wonderful performances here: Steve Tsigonoff, as the ring thief, and his sister Millie, as the thief's chatty gargoyle of a wife, should become popular character actors, and Angelo could become a star. Catch them here first, under Duvall's critical, compassion ate, intelligent eye. - By Richard Corliss
...with an incestuous sort of fatherly attention, and of laboring to control every detail of her life. He raged when he was deserted, as he saw it, by Ingrid Bergman after Spellbound and Notorious and by Grace Kelly after Dial "M" for Murder, Rear Window and To Catch a Thief. By 1962, when he filmed The Birds, he was treating Actress Tippi Hedren as a doll to dress, cosset and terrorize...
Scola and his screenwriter, the late Sergio Amidei (whose credits include such neorealist masterpieces as Shoeshine and Bicycle Thief), want to make two points: that Louis XVI's plans were unhinged not by ideology but by a series of stupid accidents; that the ideas and impressions of the travelers jouncing along in the King's wake are blinkered by their subjectivity and their failure to account for history's indifference to the logical linking of events, which can be imposed by hindsight. Only Barrault's marvelously ironic Restif, curious as a cat and just as amoral...
...householder did not feel afraid. Or angry. Instead, he even found himself glancing toward the curb where a chauffeur dozed, or maddeningly seemed to doze, at the wheel of a parked limousine. There was still nobody else on the street. He was aware that whatever it was in the thief s pocket might not be a knife. Very likely wasn't. It occurred to him to demand to see the weapon, then dodge toward the hotel. At the same time he felt constrained, in some peculiarly inappropriate way, like an actor walking through a barely rehearsed part. Bits...