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...prefer Schmid’s nuanced earlier films to one-trick outings like “Reqiuem” should take heart. In his latest project, “Sturm,” Schmid turns to “Requiem” screenwriter Bernd Lange for a taut political thriller. In an interview with Austrian film website SkipWebWorld, Schmid said that the film focuses on a young Croatian woman who recognizes an unpunished war criminal, and a lawyer who helps to bring him to justice at the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague. Though not showing at the HFA?...
Life has been known to imitate art, as it did on the set of the psychological thriller The Number 23. JIM CARREY plays a man who sees No. 23 everywhere after he starts reading a murder mystery with a plot alarmingly parallel to his life. Twenty-three has a real-world following for its supposedly mystical way of popping up. During the shoot, cast and crew noticed the number in odd places, like the address of a sushi restaurant that catered the crew's dinner. "I thought, This is my 20th feature--too bad it's not 23," says director...
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...good is Thriller? Put it on right now, and you'll be amazed at how easily the most frightening public image of the late 20th century melts away. Michael Jackson was 24 when he released what became the best-selling album of all time (until it was eclipsed in the late '90s by the eponymous Eagles: Their Greatest Hits, 1971-1975). And there's no whining about celebrity, no messiah complex, just nine immensely catchy tracks, seven of which went...
...every film in the Criterion list is a textbook classic. Quite a few are just hugely enjoyable bagatelles that deserve to be treated with care. As you probably already know, Donen's 1963 comic thriller is about a young American widow (the ever-stylish Audrey Hepburn) on the run in Paris from a trio of criminals who think she can lead them to the fortune her late husband stole from them. The is-he-or-isn't-he-trustworthy stranger who takes her under his wing is Cary Grant. The digital transfer is every bit as lustrous as what Kurosawa...