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	Ordinary Decent Criminal
		Ordinary Decent Criminal is a film starring Kevin Spacey, and any film with Kevin Spacey in it is worth watching in order to get one of his quiet, low-key performances.
		Ordinary Decent Criminal is a classic example of a "watch-once-and-forget" film.
		The fact that this film is about a famous Irish criminal, and that it has been almost universally panned by UK critics, was not an encouraging sign as I sat down to view it.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/OrdinaryDecentCriminal.html

	Communication Studies Resources: The University of Iowa
		The purpose of the film reviews is to provide an opportunity for criminal justice educators to utilize popular culture as a pedagogical tool.
		The Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture is designed to serve the criminal justice community by providing film reviews and original essays on the intersection of popular culture with criminal justice.
		Discusses and promotes the use of multimedia, computers, and the internet for teaching, research, and scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.
	www.uiowa.edu /~commstud/resources/listserv.html (809 words)

	Amazon.com: DVD: Criminal
		Criminal is one of those indie films you pick up on a whim but much to your delight, find yourself riveted.
		I've never heard of Nueva Reinas (Nine Queens), the 2000 Argentinean original upon which the film is based, but Criminal does have something of a foreign feel to it and scores major points with its complicated con man deluxe storyline.
		If there is any reason for you to see 'Criminal,' it is John C. Reilly as a small-time crook Richard Gattis.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007R4SZO?v=glance (809 words)

	And You Call Yourself a Scientist! - Batman (1989)
		As the film progresses, there is a growing sense of Batman not as a do-gooder, or as a crime-fighter as such, but as a vigilante; one willing to punish all criminal actions with death.
		Doubts about Batman’s motives are planted in the viewer’s mind early on, when the two muggers in the opening scene debate whether a fellow criminal slipped off a rooftop, or whether he was pushed.
		The overall ambience of this film is deeply peculiar, with gothic architecture forming a backdrop to a forties world full of nineties problems – and language – and relationships.
	twtd.bluemountains.net.au /Rick/batman.htm (3169 words)

	Orson Welles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The film is apparently the story of the efforts of a film director (played by John Huston) to complete his last Hollywood movie and is largely set at a lavish party.
		Although in 1972 the film was reported by Welles as being "96% complete" its legal ownership became a matter of dispute.
		Finance was from a number of sources, the largest of which being an Iranian company based in Paris and run by the brother in law of the Shah of Iran.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orson_Welles (3169 words)

	Filmtracks: Criminal Law (Jerry Goldsmith)
		Overall, Criminal Law is definitely one of the weaker Goldsmith efforts of the modern era, combining a lack of diverse instrumentation with a stylistic intent to add to the film's dissolution through dark textures.
		Criminal Law : (Jerry Goldsmith) While the film was absolutely torn apart by critics and audiences alike, Criminal Law was an introduction of two eventually well-known people in the mainstream American cinema.
		Hokey dialogue and a homoerotic subtext plague the graphic film, and by the time the movie was done jerking around the audience on its ride of dubious logic, Criminal Law qualified as a genuine, grade-A stinker.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/criminal_law.html (3169 words)

	hr_2002oct29.htm
		Chairman, I would move Myrna Adams-Mood as a Film Classifier to the Maritime Film Classification Board under the Department of Environment and Labour, and I so move.
		Chairman, was the settlement agreement in the Archie Kaiser human rights case because, of course, the Criminal Code Review Board was one of the two tribunals at the centre of the Archie Kaiser complaint.
		Chairman, for the position of chairman and member to the Review Board under the Criminal Code, I move the name of Peter Lederman.
	www.gov.ns.ca /legislature/hansard/comm/hr/hr_2002oct29.htm (3169 words)

	Usenet Archive
		Just because a provincial censor board has approved a film, doesn't render you immune from the criminal law.
		Provincial film and video obscenity laws are as unconstitutional as any other PROVINCIAL criminal laws.
		The censorship (your word) > >>or review and classification (correct description) of movies is > >>the purview of provinces or lower jurisdictions and is conducted > >>so that the federal criminal laws are not broken within those > >>jurisdictions.
	usenet.best-buy-online.com /File228.html (3169 words)

	Crime and Gangster Films
		Gangster films are morality tales: Horatio Alger or 'pursuit of the American Dream' success stories turned upside down in which criminals live in an inverted dream world of success and wealth.
		The lead role in each film (a gangster/criminal or bootleg racketeer of the Prohibition Era) was glorified, but each one ultimately met his doom in the final scenes of these films, due to censors' demands that they receive moral retribution for their crimes.
		Gangster/crime films are usually set in large, crowded cities, to provide a view of the secret world of the criminal: dark nightclubs or streets with lurid neon signs, fast cars, piles of cash, sleazy bars, contraband, seedy living quarters or rooming houses.
	www.filmsite.org /crimefilms.html (2208 words)

	Bess: Film Type
		Detective Films are usually considered a sub-type of mystery and crime films (or film noir) that focus on the central character, the hard-boiled detective-hero, as he/she meets various adventures and challenges in the cold and methodical pursuit of the criminal or the solution to the crime.
		Crime and Gangster Films are developed around the sinister actions of criminals or gangsters, particularly bankrobbers, underworld figures, or ruthless hoodlums who operate outside the law, stealing and murdering their way through life.
		Gangster/crime films are usually set in large, crowded cities in the secret world of the criminal: dark nightclubs or streets with lurid neon signs, fast cars, sleazy bars, seedy living quarters or rooming houses.
	techcenter.davidson.k12.nc.us /Group6/filmtype.htm (3703 words)

	stv-guide.doc
		Following the film, guide participants in a discussion that helps them identify 10 things that the criminal justice and paroling systems can do to be more sensitive to the needs and concerns of victims in their jurisdiction.
		Knowledge of victim trauma—including the immediate, short-term and long-term impacts of crime on victims and their loved ones and how participation in criminal justice processes can exacerbate victim trauma (see Section One)—is essential for professionals and volunteers who have contact with victims and survivors.
		Before Viewing the Film Welcome participants to the viewing event and express your gratitude for their attendance.
	www.itvs.org /outreach/sentencingthevictim/stv-guide.doc (5329 words)

	Crime Films - Cambridge University Press
		Focusing on ten films that span the range of the twentieth century, Thomas Leitch traces the transformation of the three leading figures that are common to all crime films: the criminal, the victim and the avenger.
		This blurring, Leitch maintains, reflects and fosters a deep social ambivalence towards crime and criminals, while the criminal, victim and avenger characters effectively map the shifting relations between subgenres, such as the erotic thriller and the police film, within the larger genre of crime film that informs them all.
		This book surveys the entire range of crime films, including important subgenres such as the gangster film, the private eye film, film noir, as well as the victim film, the erotic thriller, and the crime comedy.
	www.cup.cam.ac.uk /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0511036280 (231 words)

	The St. Petersburg Times - Arts + Features - Retro trash
		The funniest part of film (which is described as a "criminal comedy" by the producers) is the endless shedding of dozens of liters of blood (more than 50 liters of "blood" were used during the first days of the shooting of the film).
		Balabanov has traveled a strange route to get to this "criminal comedy." He is well known for his two his "Brother" films which, on the one hand, reflected and documented the degradation of Russian society in the 1990s, but on the other, contributed, through their immense success, to that same process.
		Unfortunately, the film lacks the jokes and little gimmicks of those directors, and that's why, even with its all-star cast, "Zhmurki" is no masterpiece.
	www.sptimes.ru /story/3651 (642 words)

	Epinions.com - The 10 Best Gangster Films
		Here is a serious film about a criminal who struggles to leave his world of crime and start a new life with a woman he loves.
		The film demonstrates how a ruthless and charming criminal started Las Vegas.
		Even though, gangster films are usually somewhat predictable, events that lead to the conclusion are very real and emotional.
	www.epinions.com /content_2338234500 (835 words)

	Amazon.com: Crime Films (Genres in American Cinema): Books: Thomas Leitch,Barry Keith Grant
		Focusing on ten films that span the range of the twentieth century, Thomas Leitch traces the transformation of the three leading figures that are common to all crime films: the criminal, the victim and the avenger.
		Focusing on ten films that span the range of the twentieth century, Thomas Leitch traces the transformation of three figures common to all crime films: the criminal, the victim and the avenger.
		The crime film is the most enduringly popular of all Hollywood genres, the only kind of film that has never once been out of fashion since the dawn of the sound era seventy years ago.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521646715?v=glance (874 words)

	CNN - Local News - Sources: Teamster film crew tied to R.I. gangsters - August 8, 2000
		In addition, officials from Boston's Local 25, which has jurisdiction over union members working on films in Massachusetts and northern New England, omit names of some of the drivers with criminal backgrounds when final drivers lists are submitted at the end of shooting, according to sources and records.
		Members of Local 25's movie crew have been the focus of a yearlong probe by a federal grand jury and investigators from the Department of Labor's racketeering unit for allegedly shaking down independent and studio film executives.
		Parrillo, who allegedly had ties to the now-defunct Patriarca crime family, runs the movie crew for Providence-based Local 251, a similar position to that of Local 25's James P. Flynn, a convicted criminal with alleged Mob associations who is a main target of the federal investigation.
	www.cnn.com /2000/LOCAL/northeast/08/08/boh.teamsters.movies/index.html (930 words)

	2 hotels pressured for adult film fare
		Two more Tristate hotels are under prosecutors' investigation for showing in-room adult movies, spurred by complaints from the Sharonville-based Citizens for Community Values.
		Daniel Breyer, Clermont County's chief criminal prosecutor, confirmed that his staff reviewed the tape of "three or four" vignettes, and plan to present the video to a grand jury for possible criminal charges against the hotel.
		Members of the organization videotaped adult pay-per-view movies and turned them over to prosecutors this month.
	enquirer.com /editions/2002/12/14/loc_hotelporn14.html (395 words)

	analyzedonnie.html
		Donnie Brasco tarnishes the shiny veneer of the mob we've seen in earlier movies, holding up its players not as criminal heroes but as cogs in a criminal machine, more worthy of compassion than cheers.
		I couldn't hear half the film over my own laughter and that of the crowd.
		To the Mob Born Donnie Brasco is practically the anti-Godfather.
	www.flickfilosopher.com /flickfilos/archive/1q99/analyzedonnie.html (1299 words)

	Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc. -- Scifimovies.Com
		A master criminal known as The Ghost, who is able to become invisible when his assistant Lucifer aims a beam of light at a medallion he wears, is responsible for a massive crime wave, and desperate government officials assign Dick Tracy to investigate.
		With his assistants Billy Carr and June Chandler, Tracy immediately goess to work tracking down The Ghost and interferring with his criminal activities at every turn.
		A Complete Filmography of the Serials Released by Republic Pictures Corporation, 1934-1955.
	www.scifimovies.com /serials/scifi0029.shtml (163 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film Reviews Sexy Beast
		But they're stylish films, worthy of lower-rung positions in the British low-life canon.
		A sad, overweight cockney criminal, the emblematically named Gary Dove (Ray Winstone), has retired in his early forties to the Costa del Sol with his bruised ex-porn-flick wife (Amanda Redman).
		They're not in the same class as Joseph Losey's The Criminal, Mike Hodges's Get Carter, Nic Roeg and Donald Cammell's Performance, John Mackenzie's The Long Good Friday or Stephen Frears's The Hit.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Film/News_Story/Critic_Review/Observer_review/0,4267,422012,00.html (242 words)

	The Fence [Veronica Guerin dir. Joel Schumacher]
		My real problem was that it made it seem as though Ireland's criminal elements had been defeated, and now Dublin was a safe city to live in, with no drug-lords etc. Well obviously the film-makers don't read the newspapers.
		I found the ending a bit sickening however; not the murder, but the voice-over telling the film's audience how everything had changed after the murder, and how the govt had reacted so wonderfully and changed the constitution so that the Criminal Asset Bureau (CAB) was set up.
		First off our constitution did not need to be changed in order to set up CAB, second of all the govt.
	www.freewebs.com /thefence/fveronica.htm (324 words)

	The Alger Hiss Trials: A Commentary
		Chambers placed the film (two strips developed and three undeveloped) taken from the Baltimore home into a hollowed-out pumpkin, then placed the pumpkin back in a pumpkin patch on his Maryland farm.
		The envelope contained four notes handwritten by Alger Hiss, sixty-five typewritten documents (copies of State Department documents, all dated between January and April, 1938) and five strips of 35 mm film.
		Reagan said Chambers sparked "the counterrevolution of the intellectuals" and that Chambers's story "represents a generation's disenchantment with statism and its return to eternal truths and fundamental values." On March 26, 1984, Chambers (who died in 1961) posthumously received from President Reagan the nation's highest honor, the Medal of Freedom.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/hissaccount.html (324 words)

	Kenneth Mentor
		Mentor, Kenneth W. “Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer.” Film review.
		Mentor, Kenneth W. “Peacemaking and Criminal Justice: A Humanistic Approach to Criminal Justice Education.” In The Humanist Sociology Resource Book, M. Schwartz and W. Miller, eds.
	kenmentor.com /cv.htm (2487 words)

	No Silence In This Court
		Justice: Takes a camera where few have been, a criminal courtroom in Rio de Janeiro, to record the social theatre, the structures of power, what is usually invisible.
		It could easily be used for a high school social studies class or in a number of undergraduate courses on India, including introductory surveys, cultural anthropology, sociology, or indeed, criminal justice.
		This 'self-managed' justice has proven so successful, that the Justice Ministry has tried to establish similar courts in other regions of India.
	www.frif.com /new2001/no.html (383 words)

	People's Weekly World - White House put itself above the law
		In fact, newly leaked memos show, they said the president could authorize almost any kind of physical or psychological coercion, including torture, in the name of the “war on terror.” At the same time they compiled a cascade of legal arguments to block potential criminal prosecution of such actions.
		Veteran CIA analyst Ray McGovern called the Gonzales memo “a very startling exposition of the new situation … that it’s OK to exempt folks from the law.” The memo essentially outlined a legal case for Bush to defend himself from criminal prosecution, McGovern noted.
		University of Illinois law professor Francis Boyle called the documents evidence of “a conspiracy by the highest-level officials” to violate the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the Convention Against Torture.
	www.pww.org /article/articleview/5344/1/219 (665 words)

	Film Noir - Films
		The criminal, violent, misogynistic, hard-boiled, or greedy perspectives of anti-heroes in film noir were a metaphoric symptom of society's evils, with a strong undercurrent of moral conflict.
		Film noir is a distinct branch, sub-genre or offshoot of the crime/gangster and detective/mystery sagas from the 1930s (i.e., Little Caesar (1930), Public Enemy (1931) and Scarface (1932)), but very different in tone and characterization.
		Film noir films (mostly shot in gloomy grays, blacks and whites) showed the dark and inhumane side of human nature with cynicism and doomed love, and they emphasized the brutal, unhealthy, seamy, shadowy, dark and sadistic sides of the human experience.
	www.filmsite.org /filmnoir.html (1857 words)

	Victim (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Despite the risks to himself (the director made the film when homosexuality was a criminal offence in the UK), the barrister tracks the blackmailers down and brings them to justice.
		The film tells the story of the blackmailing of a married bisexual barrister (Dirk Bogarde) after the jail suicide of his male lover.
		Victim is a 1961 British film directed by Basil Dearden, starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylvia Syms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victim_(film) (180 words)

	Criminal
		"Criminal has a wonderful modern film noir feel punctuated with incredibly clever dialog..."
		"What elevates Criminal into a delicious con in the league of Red Rock West, House of Games or Matchstick Men is John C. Reilly."
		* Certain "Criminal" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/10003276-criminal (180 words)

	Identity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Identity theft is the deliberate appropriation of someone else's identity (without that person's permission) for criminal purposes.
		In the philosophy of mind, the identity theory of mind holds that the mind is identical to the brain.
		An identity is an equality that holds regardless of the values of its variables.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Identity (281 words)

	Smooth Criminal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"Smooth Criminal" was presented in a ten-minute long clip in which Jackson dances through a 1930s-style nightclub.
		"Smooth Criminal" is a song on Michael Jackson's Bad album (1987).
		The song was the centerpiece in Jackson's Moonwalker movie, in which an entire hour-long short film (featuring Joe Pesci) was produced around the song.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Smooth_Criminal (488 words)

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