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  • Inside Man better,the second time

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    Quick Change  (1990)

    Serpico  (1973)

    NYPD Blue: Pilot  (1993)

    Kojak: Season 01  (2005)

    Inside Man  (2006)


  • ( 'obscure' spoiler here folks.).. .Good but not great...main thought..as often these days,i wish i was an editor ..it's just too long...'hellaccious cast' right enough ..but there's enough material here for a tight ,hour long 'Hustle' type T.V. outing...and /or a superior post 9/11 'NYPDBlue' type series...granted it might have to be Dennis Haysbert, not DenZEL..and Marg Helgenberger,not Jody Foster...but so it goes. Spike Lee was at pains to point out the homage to 'Dog Day Afternoon' and in case any slow-witted film fan misses it 'Dog Day..' is name-checked along with 'Serpico' and 'Kojak' ...the film that i had in mind most though
    was 'Quick Change' the great Bill Murray comedy where he pulls a bank heist dressed as a clown( a central idea from which is employed here).
    Best aspect of 'The Inside Man' is the great dialogue,laced liberally with the sort of gallows humour that Denis Leary's T.V. show 'Rescue Me' employs so well..along with judicious use of location, this is where the authentic 'post 9/11' feel plays it's part.
    The big 'political/race' bit is Christopher Plummer's dark secret ...and that really is the whole point and conclusion of the film...but it keeps rolling and leaves things so open ended in the last scene that you almost expect 'to be continued' to flash up...The film about the Levees being blasted...now that i want to see...
  • That's what i wrote when i went to see it..
  • Second time,at home on DVD,i just loved it,most of all for the dialogue...and the ability to get some coffee half way through...

  • A Masterpiece

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    United 93  (2006)

    Paul Greengrass
    Whatever you think of the 'subject matter', this is a masterclass in film making...The reconstruction ,in real-time, of the fateful events of september the eleventh 2001, up to the 'imagined ' events on flight 93,surely cannot be faulted.
    Many of the real people are re-enacting those events...as Paul Greengrass posits on his DVD commentary...the systems that our World runs by, the systems of the American Air Traffic Control, and Air Defences, were broken , and floundered, could not cope ,on that day...and along with those planes a whole Religion was hi-jacked ..Our "World Order" was changed,motives for this are still being questioned,many,myself included, find most of the responses ill-judged,and just as criminal


  • Sad story,slight film.

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    Factory Girl  (2006)

    Sienna Miller is a real beauty,but a much more conventional looking one than
    Edie Sedgewick.
    She puts in a good performance,but has virtually nothing to work with here. She does a lot of feverish cigarette smoking.
    Guy Pierce is ,however very convincing,as Andy Warhol.
    Obviously,we know much more about him,and this film largely shows how Warhol with his camp,and obtuse take on film-making,as part of his Art,took advantage of a naive and impressionable rich girl.
    A gaping hole in 'Factory Girl' is the inability to actually name Bob Dylan,as the 'folk singer' who was Edies' lover for a short time. Maybe a legal block from Dylan?
    Doesnt make him look good does it?
    Disappointing.

  • Abridged

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    Vertigo  (1958)

    The Bridge  (2006)


    Morbid fascination is not a critical phrase , just a descriptive one in this case.Star of the film is the guy in the black leather coat,who makes the most spectacular and well executed jump..5.9 from the U.K. judge....they save it untill the end. I found myself 'feeling sorry' for the Golden Gate Bridge...as this film unfolds ,it seems to take on an innocent ,noble character.Looking beautiful from many different angles.It is a truly iconic location,not least as a star in 'Vertigo'.
    Seriously,this is truly compelling,as we hear from the friends and family of suicides,and ,notably from a 'failed' suicide..Couldnt help thinking ,that for a few dollars they could put a higher railing in...

 

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