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	Film Genres Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Film noir is a distinct branch of the crime/gangster sagas from the 1930s.
		Melodramas are a sub-type of drama films, characterized by a plot to appeal to the emotions of the audience.
		Musical/dance films are cinematic forms that emphasize full-scale song and dance routines in a significant way (usually with a musical or dance performance as part of the film narrative), or they are films that are centered on combinations of music, dance, song or choreography.
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	Searching for films by genre
		Adventure films are set in an exotic location or different historical period, from the middle ages through the 19th century.
		In the hard-boiled detective film, crime becomes a dark metaphor that is symptomatic of what is wrong with society, rather than simply a single aberration from the norm.
		Film noir was primarily made in a cycle during the 1940s and into the 1950s, but includes work made in previous and subsequent years that invoke the feel and mood of classical film noir.
	ww2.lafayette.edu /~library/guides/filmgenres.html (3880 words)

	sffworld.com - Caper/Heist Films (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Films where a thief or team of thieves have to plan and break into or steal an item and get away.
		One of the best scenes in the movie is when they flashback on how the thieves got their start.
		I think 'Heat' was the film that Mann wanted to make at the time, but he simply didn't have the money and the connections to carry it off...
	www.sffworld.com /forums/showthread.php?t=6822 (705 words)

	Film Sub-Genres
		Film noir (meaning 'fl film') is a distinct branch of the crime/gangster sagas from the 1930s.
		Films that have a sports setting (football or baseball stadium, arena, or the Olympics, etc.), event (the 'big game,' 'fight,' 'race,' or 'competition'), and/or athlete (boxer, racer, surfer, etc.) that are central and predominant in the story.
		Sports films may be fictional or non-fictional; and they are a hybrid sub-genre category, although they are often dramas or comedy films, and occasionally documentaries or biopics.
	www.filmsite.org /subgenres.html (1104 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on After the Sunset at Epinions.com
		Caper films let us see that little devil inside of us get away with all those little sins we'd have committed long ago if only we had the brains to program a VCR.
		The problem with caper films is that they generate a kind of "land office" business that quickly encourages every production company in California to release their version of the caper film.
		Caper films are about people with deep-seated needs to do sneaky things to get the kinds of goodies (and excitement) the rest of wish we were smart enough to snatch.
	www.epinions.com /content_161693011588 (1201 words)

	Film Genres
		Musical/dance films are cinematic forms that emphasize full-scale scores or song and dance routines in a significant way (usually with a musical or dance performance integrated as part of the film narrative), or they are films that are centered on combinations of music, dance, song or choreography.
		War films acknowledge the horror and heartbreak of war, letting the actual combat fighting (against nations or humankind) on land, sea, or in the air provide the primary plot or background for the action of the film.
		All films have at least one major genre, although there are a number of films that are considered crossbreeds or hybrids with three or four overlapping genre (or sub-genre) types that identify them.
	www.filmsite.org /genres.html (1443 words)

	Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
		Films rated below five are generally awful even if you like that kind of film - this score is roughly equivalent to one and a half stars from the critics or a D on our scale.
		Any film rated C- or better is recommended for fans of that type of film.
		Mediocre film, but it was successful, and it may amuse you to see the period filmmaking techniques, and to see giants like Eastwood, Bridges and Cimino contributing to a minor effort.
	www.fakes.net /thunderboltandlightfoot.htm (1310 words)

	Thrilling 'Heist' steals a stash of caper-film ideas \| csmonitor.com
		Caper films are making another stab at the box office this season.
		The best caper movies play on this trait, as Mamet does in "Heist," where Gene Hackman's master thief is as charming in his personality as he is unscrupulous in his deeds.
		Caper films haven't been a major source of entertainment in recent years, partly because they don't lend themselves to the screen-filling special effects that younger audiences currently crave.
	www.csmonitor.com /2001/1109/p15s1-almo.htm (800 words)

	Journal of Popular Film and Television: Fatal capers: strategy and enigma in film noir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The caper narrative, with its emphasis on the elaborate plotting of criminal activity by characters operating on society's fringe, includes some of the most significant examples of classical noir: films such as The Killers (1946), Criss Cross (1949), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), Five against the House (1955), and The Killing (1956).
		That the caper might end in death, then, is hardly a surprise, for an eventual reassertion of the status quo, its recuperation, is part of the dynamic that lets us take pleasure in those fleeting transgressions the caper describes.
		It probes beyond the elaborate strategies of the typical caper plot, beyond the ironic "payoffs" attending those strategies, beyond the fatality that is their trajectory, to explore what Baudrillard terms "the enigma" at the heart of such narratives, that which abides in the strategy itself.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0412/is_n4_v23/ai_18299547 (1064 words)

	R E A L T I M E (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Feature films were required to articulate pressing issues of nationhood and national identity, hence the preponderance of narratives dealing with aspects of Australian cultural, social and political history.
		In both the dramatic and comic versions of the genre, the caper film is underpinned by a fundamentally anti-authoritarian and egalitarian imperative.
		Much of the humour in both films arises not only from the planned assault on the bookies and banks, but also on the crooked cops and bent lawyers who are the real villains of the piece.
	www.realtimearts.net /rt60/capp.html (1203 words)

	Thought Scraps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		And the caper is stealing the crown jewels from the Tower of London.
		As with all caper films, the audience practically becomes an eye witness to the elaborate planning and execution of the heist.
		Wallace film regulars Klaus Kinski (playing one of the crooks) and Eddi Arent (as a German tourist who witnesses a murder and thus stumbles onto the gang) are along for the ride as well.
	www.corabuhlert.com /2002/09/cora-reviews-german-edgar-wallace.html (589 words)

	washingtonpost.com: To Watch a Thief
		Ratner's latest film, "After the Sunset," starring Pierce Brosnan and Salma Hayek as jewel thieves who have retired directly into La Casa de Good Life on a beach in the Bahamas, reminds us once again how much more enjoyable our lives could be if we only had the guts to make the Big Score.
		That these are often remakes of '60s films is telling: The original "Ocean's Eleven" (1960), "The Italian Job" (1969) and "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968) all offer variations on a slick cool that, in retro, smooths our edgy modern nerves.
		And Ratner is a fan of "Rififi," the 1955 French film by Jules Dassin that he and many others consider "the granddaddy of all heist films." The movie's centerpiece is a long, patient heist that unfolds in complete silence and makes simple, clever use of an ordinary umbrella.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A45086-2004Nov12?language=printer (914 words)

	The League of Gentlemen: A Very English Caper
		The participants in the caper are usually experts in a particular skill necessary for the execution of the crime who must put aside any personal differences and form a team.
		All the actors were stalwarts of 50s British war films (“I had a bloody good war” Rutland-Smith tells his wife) and their roles in the film seem an apt comment on the passing of the genre and purposeless lives in peacetime.
		The film reflects British war films in the 50’s which depicted what Ryall (3) defines as a more an self-enclosed officers’ war dealing with the intricacies of escapes, raids and operations and less with pulling aside class differences and engaging in a collective effort as in 40s war films.
	members.aol.com /cinemabritain/league.html (2019 words)

	DVD Savant Review: Topkapi
		Caper films are about teamwork and cooperation, concepts hard to come by nowadays.
		I'd say that the film is worn, due to the nicks and scratches in the colorful twinkly titles, but Savant's never seen a better copy, so the flaws might be built-in to the title negative.
		As a classic Caper film, Startup.com would be a story about safecrackers on the Titanic, thinking that when they get the goods, their problems are over.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s375topkapi.html (1393 words)

	The Dirty Dozen (1967)
		The Dirty Dozen belongs to that '60s, early '70s subgenre of World War II caper films that include The Guns of Navarone, Kelly's Heroes, and The Train, to name a few key examples.
		Focussing on one initial goal usually involving sabotage, burglary or some other vice, these kind of caper films often turn the moral tables on our regular viewing position and question the motivations of its heroes, addressing the nature of heroism and its costs.
		The film is in letterbox widescreen, preserving the Cinemascope aspect ratio of its original release.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=269&PID=10044350&buy=closed&Tab=reviews&CID=18 (366 words)

	Laramie Movie Scope: Where the Money Is
		The film moves a little slow, but it is well-crafted and well-acted with only an unbelievable chase scene near the end of the movie to dull what is otherwise a smarter-than-average script by E. Max Frye ("Palmetto").
		This is called work in the film, but it really isn't, it is just preparation for a theft.
		Caper films are all similar in this way.
	www.lariat.org /AtTheMovies/wherethemoneyis.html (674 words)

	Film Review - A job well done - Culture Shock news
		It is one of those clever caper films that are incredibly satisfying entertainment when they work.
		Where the film strays from the success manual is in building on the big heist instead of building to it.
		We sit back and watch the film flirt with the absurd; the sneaky thought that creeps in is that there is good taste in implausibility too.
	www.sofiaecho.com /art.php?id=8091&catid=47 (586 words)

	Screen reViews: The Ladykillers, starring Tom Hanks
		Not only is this a remake of the 1955 British film of the same name, but it is a chance for the Coen Brothers to attempt (and revel in) a style of caper-farce that proved so profitable to Alec Guinness and England's Ealing Studio.
		In these caper films, one of the hardest parts is introducing the team without wasting too much time on exposition.
		Of course, after the caper, Marva discovers that she's been duped, and the movie is on to the final act.
	www.mouseplanet.com /screenreviews/sr040326as.htm (1123 words)

	2 - More Movie Reviews by Steve Bierly
		This R-rated film isn't for everybody, but I found its portrayal of the life of Ed Wood, the cross-dressing, incompetent, writer/producer/director of the worst, cheapest movies of all time, to be alternately hilarious and touching.
		Filmed in beautiful fl-and-white, the story of Ed Wood is told in the style of an Ed Wood movie in terms of lighting, make-up, background music, and, in spots, melodramatic acting.
		The film makes you care about the characters, not by hitting you over the head and commanding, "Care!" but by simply letting the camera follow them around and capturing the mixtures of saint/sinner, quirky/normal, hero/coward that each of them (and each of us) are.
	www.mtcnet.net /~bierly/tvmovies2.htm (14132 words)

	CityBeat: Casino Royale (2001-12-06)
		Ocean's Eleven is Soderbergh's fluff film, not at all different from Alfred Hitchcock's caper film, To Catch a Thief.
		The film is stylish, but not sharply written or well spoken.
		His debut film, sex, lies and videotape, a dysfunctional drama about one man's inability to maintain a monogamous relationship, remains a watershed work in American film.
	www.citybeat.com /2001-12-06/film2.shtml (1136 words)

	DagZine: Positions, Poetics, Populations: 01/02 - 01/08
		The result is a very relaxed and well-paced film, which is hard to pull off with all the technique involved; therefore, fun and much warmer than the first effort.
		It is a film about a genre (and all its sub-genres) with all their strengths and weakeness technically intact.
		The great European films are always slighted by American audiences because they are light or cute or derivative or political or simply too-smart-for-their-own-good.
	dagzine.blogspot.com /2005_01_02_dagzine_archive.html (2216 words)

	Laramie Movie Scope: The Firm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		While the film does not fit into a single category, part of it is similar to caper films like ``Sneakers,'' only it is much better than that.
		A little of the film's edge is taken off by the fact that once it turns into a caper story, you know about how its going to come out in the end.
		The film rates an A. Click here for links to places to buy this movie in video and/or DVD format, the soundtrack, books, even used videos, games and lots of other stuff.
	www.lariat.org /AtTheMovies/old/thefirm.html (429 words)

	OCEAN'S ELEVEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		With "Ocean's Eleven" in place, the con begins, and what a grand con it is. What I love about caper films as opposed to heist films is that we're not always privy to the bottom line.
		In caper films, things just happen and we accept them (when Basher needs a nuclear accelerator to disrupt the power in Las Vegas, they have no problem acquiring one).
		With caper films, we're only allowed to see bits and pieces of the puzzle, thus becoming observers rather than participants.
	www.lightviews.com /oceanselevendvd.htm (1281 words)

	City Newspaper: Film: Film reviews: Transatlantic translation of the caper flick
		In Europe, the film about some carefully planned, immensely complicated, and highly lucrative theft usually takes on comic overtones, with the crooks often portrayed as amiable bunglers and their crime as an exercise in farcical futility.
		And such films obey the strictures of the clock --- another mechanism --- depending, for their suspense, on an awareness of time.
		When the caper goes wrong, as the rules demand, the fault always lies with some unpredictable human error, an organic disruption of the blind, cold logic of the machine --- people, somehow, cannot quite behave so coolly and orderly as an artificial device.
	www.rochester-citynews.com /gbase/Gyrosite/Content?oid=oid:1923 (1002 words)

	The Trades - Entertainment Industry Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		That the film has witty and memorable one-liners is something the vast majority of Americans will never know -- because the trailer, to quote a friend of mine, “looks like crud.” You're laughing, thinking that we're too dim to appreciate Mamet, but it's not the case.
		Thus, the caper genre has the unique problem, I would say, of having to rely on the draw of their directors, actors, writers - rather than on the commercial merits and sale-ability of the film itself - to draw in those who are not already fans of this sort of film.
		This film, then, seems to be a solid little thing, with a nice marketing push behind it and some decent buzz to boot.
	www.the-trades.com /column_print.php?columnid=917 (1645 words)

	Jiminy Critic Movie Reviews - Review of Heist (2001)
		Aside from the obvious fact that they’re both caper films, they’re also notably linked in their attempts to recapture and recreate the feeling of the classic film era of the 1940’s and ‘50’s.
		The Score does this by emulating classic caper films like Thief, and Heist does it the only way writer/director David Mamet knows how: keeping the audience as entertained as possible while at the same time keeping them as confused as possible.
		Film images are the property of their respective owners.
	www.jiminycritic.com /review.asp?ReviewID=151 (643 words)

	Big Deal on Madonna Street: Criterion (1958) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		My last such encounter with a Criterion DVD came via their release of Rififi, and this was another relative winner; the French caper flick was interesting and well-executed.
		Indeed, the 1958 Italian film has clear roots in the earlier French work, as both tell of a small gang that tries to net their one big score.
		During much of the film, I saw a variety of defects, but white speckles were the biggest issue.
	www.dvdmg.com /bigdealonmadonnastreet.shtml (1804 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Asphalt Jungle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		And the film's look is definitive: both artful and gritty, it creates a noir landscape that traps its people just as surely as the tar pits trapped the dinosaurs.
		Much imitated, The Asphalt Jungle was one of the first caper films to show a crime and its consequences from the criminals' point of view.
		Basically, it's a jewel heist caper gone horribly wrong but carried off with such panache and attention to detail by director, John Huston that one has to admire both the economy of plot and depth of characters fleshed out within the context of two hours.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000244EWO (1539 words)

	Democrat and Chronicle -- Entertainment -- Rochester, NY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Much of the film's amusement comes from the diverse personalities of these well-defined accomplices.
		In the 34-year-old film, the gang uses a giant traffic jam to facilitate a robbery in Turin, and they use three brightly colored Mini Coopers to escape.
		The Italian Job is among the better caper films of recent vintage.
	www.democratandchronicle.com /goesout/mov/i/italian.shtml (558 words)

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