Word: yarns
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...print of this 1974 hijacking thriller couldn’t have come out at a better time. After last summer’s New York blackout, being trapped in a subway seemed scarier than ever. Director Joseph Sargent’s taut suspense yarn plays on these fears—four criminals take over a subway train and demand one million dollars in ransom, as detective Walter Matthau rushes to save the day. Unfortunately, he’s only got an hour—after that, the passengers start dying. The color-coded hijackers—Mr. Blue, Mr. Green...
...boasts live bass and watery organ against a drunken wheezing loop and André’s scratchy voice. Over jazzy brushed snares and live piano, “She’s Alive” spins a haunting falsetto yarn about a young single mother...
...Appreciation of a Good Yarn Re "Why Harry Potter Rules" [June 23]: Author J.K. Rowling has engaged millions of children (and apparently the child in millions of adults as well) to put down their joysticks and remote controls and once again read books. But ?litist snobs like Yale Professor Harold Bloom predict the Potter books will end up "in the dustbins everywhere." Bloom has obviously been ensconced in his academic ivory tower so long that he can't appreciate good, old-fashioned yarn spinning. Or is it possibly just a severe case of envy? Maybe he can't stand...
...Southeast Asia, where he met a slew of grizzled expatriates with shady pasts. Later, an International Herald Tribune story about felons hiding out in Cambodia due to its lack of extradition treaties further sparked his imagination. Working with writer Barry Gifford (Wild at Heart), he penned a noirish yarn about a Manhattan yuppie (played by Dillon) embroiled in a major insurance scam who travels to Phnom Penh and reunites with his mentor, portrayed by James Caan (The Godfather). The plot follows Dillon's character through sweat-soaked brothel scenes, all-night temple raves and a seedy guesthouse where French superstar...
...Lily, on their perilous journeys to Hong Kong. The absorbing documentary Traces of the Dragon: Jackie Chan & His Lost Family, which premiered at last month's Berlin Film Festival, reveals the extended Chan clan as a microcosm of China's turbulent 20th century history. It's a riveting yarn, too, replete with guns, gore, drugs, thugs and romance...