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	The Grifters (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Grifters is a 1990 neo-noir film directed by Stephen Frears.
		The Grifters tells the story of Lilly Dillon, a long-time female con artist who begins to rethink her life when her son Roy, also a grifter, is beaten following a failed scam.
		For instance, the film explores the problematic relationship between Roy and his mother, hinting at a level of sexual tension and incest that may also partially account for Myra's aggressive behaviour towards Lilly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grifters_(film) (1277 words)

	The Grifters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Grifters, a film by Stephen Frears and produced by Martin Scorsese
		"Grifters'" is the plural form of the noun "grifter" meaning a con artist.
		Grifter is the name of a comic book character.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Grifters (107 words)

	kamera.co.uk - feature article - Film Retrospective - The Grifters by Tim Applegate
		First coined by French film critics in 1946, the term film noir brings to mind a tableau of fl-and-white images: a killer lurking in the shadows; a gloved hand clutching a revolver; a pale body lying on a living-room floor.
		A staple of Hollywood studios in the '40s and '50s, film noirs reached the peak of their popularity in the postwar years, and today many film scholars are dismissive of any attempts to modernize the form.
		And if The Grifters is to be considered one of the highlights of Frears's career, it should also serve as a reminder that film noir is alive and well and just as essential now as it was half a century ago.
	www.kamera.co.uk /features/the_grifters.php (1628 words)

	Film Reviews
		Miller, a 31-year-old NYU film grad, is obviously passionate about the city he calls home as well; it shows in the lush fl-and-white images that illustrate the film (which was shot not on film at all but on digital video) and in the painstaking attention to detail.
		But as Shekhar's film vividly illustrates, this was a virtually miraculous accomplishment for the young queen, who had to contend not only with her own political naïveté but also the stigma of being both Protestant and the fruit of King Henry VIII's scandalous liaison with Anne Boleyn.
		The film's female population is treated nearly as poorly, with a doe-eyed Ryan serving as a shrill party girl and Wright Penn as a wedge between Mickey and Eddie.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/vol18/issue23/screens.film.html (20110 words)

	Grifters, The (1990): Reviews
		The Grifters is so good that one leaves the theater on a spellbound high.
		Grifters may not blow you away afterward but it keeps your attention riveted during.
		The simmering implication of incestuous emotions between Lili and Roy, leading to the shocking denouement, is badly underdeveloped and mishandled, leaving a lingering sense of anti-climax.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/grifters (825 words)

	Arts
		Film noir is one, if not the only, genre that seems to have improved with time.
		Bening, who's since become one of the blander presences in modern cinema, is dynamic as Moira, her boop-oop-ee-doop voice and flirtatious manner are in stark contrast to the cold manipulations of her character.
		He gives the film's most subtle performance in probably the most difficult job in the picture, as the center around which the rest of the plot, and the characters, turn.
	www.oberlin.edu /stupub/ocreview/archives/1996.09.20/arts/grifters.html (931 words)

	Film Preservation Without Access is Pointless
		The National Film Preservation Act of 1992 directed the Librarian of Congress in consultation with the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress to conduct a study on the current state of motion picture preservation and restoration in the United States.
		The purpose of film archives is to assure that top quality copies of those films survive in their original versions to be seen by future audiences.
		Gary Cooper is one of the great film stars in the history of American cinema, yet seven of his major films are currently unavailable to the public in their original or restored form.
	www.cinemaweb.com /access/pre_stmt.htm (5638 words)

	The Grifters (1990) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This film draws me in from the very first beat of Elmer Bernstein's wonderfully mysterious, otherworldly score all the way to the devastating finish.
		Stephen Frears, in an attempt to prove that as a genre the film noir is alive and well, succeeds brilliantly.
		The film's focus--people who will do whatever they have to do in the name of survival--seems an odd one for a 1990 film, but a brilliant script with colorful, memorable characters, and Frears' direction of a superb cast make this one of the decade's top achievements.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0099703 (468 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| The movie that changed my life
		I wanted to give them some sense of what we were shooting for, and I ran three films for them and said we're going to make a film that's not as good as any of these films, but my hope is to be shooting at least in that neighbourhood.
		Many of the films made in Italy after the second world war, when they had no film industry as there was no money to support it, were of this genre.
		This film is nothing but truthful and elegant in its sincerity, but without sentimentality.
	film.guardian.co.uk /features/featurepages/0,4120,1183776,00.html (1650 words)

	Film Noir: A Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
		He explains that in the film, a crime syndicate plants a car bomb that kills the protagonist's wife; the filming of the explosion resembles an atomic blast and does not show the bomb's damage, thus connecting the car bombing to a cliche common to 1950s films featuring the detonation of a nuclear device.
		Film director Martin Scorsese has been exploring the soul of America since his 1973 film 'Mean Streets.' Scorsese's films depict violence and sexuality in a culture obsessed with images in the media.
		Film noir is distinguished by its interest in social context and its emphasis on the dark side of its characters.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/Noirbib.html (13874 words)

	Like Pulling Teeth (Or Stealing Kidneys): Stephen Frears On "Dirty Pretty Things"
		The film kicks into high gear after Okwe, summonsed to unclog a toilet, fishes up a healthy human heart in a stomach-turning scene.
		In other words, you're supposed to make a film in one way, but I'll make one that has this and this and that in it.
		All those films in the '30s in which the story was taken out of the headlines, like "Angels with Dirty Faces," about juvenile delinquents, with James Cagney.
	www.indiewire.com /people/people_030718frears.html (2028 words)

	Grifters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A film of extraordinary power that pulls no punches, The Grifters is not to be missed.
		Capturing the essential dark nature of the author's world, The Grifters is about those hungry characters on the edge of society involved in the con, the short con and the long con.
		Annette Bening, enticingly amoral as Roy's girl friend Myra, completes the trio of grifters that take from each other and anyone else within their reach.
	www.filmsondisc.com /dvdpages/grifters.htm (715 words)

	Conclusive Evidence of Dave Cullen's Existence -- author/journalist Dave Cullen's blog
		One of the many crucial reasons for straights to see this film is to see two guys can kiss without the world coming to an end.
		I'd rather see people actually get to the film and be taken in by the whole experience than just see one kiss, out of context, and out of emotional involvement on tv.
		This is quickly becoming the must-see film for anyone who wants to be part of the cultural conversation.
	blogs.salon.com /0001137/categories/films (1428 words)

	Cinephiles Discussion Forums: The Grifters
		"The Grifters" A Brock Landers Overview of A Stephen Frears Film (7/10)
		Grifters are small-time con men, guys who are afraid to go after the big kills
		The film is set in a sexually dysfunctional world where nothing makes
	www.cinephiles.net /cgi-bin/discuss/discus.cgi?pg=next&topic=12795&page=12937 (576 words)

	The Grifters (review)
		Another annoying thing about the transfer is that although the opening credits have been windowboxed on all four sides to preserve the film's original 1.66:1 Spherical Panavision aspect ratio, the remainder of the film has been cropped - thanks, HBO, for the reminder that we're only seeing "some" of the intended picture composition.
		Featuring three outstanding performances by leads John Cusack, Anjelica Huston and Annette Bening, the film takes a harsh, grim look at three ruthless, high-stakes con-artists and their extremely volatile relationship they have with each another.
		The film's excessively cold atmosphere may put off some people, but those of you who stick through it should find it a rewarding experience.
	www.laserrot.com /ldreviews/us/g/90545.html (385 words)

	World War 1 and 2 - The Grifters (film)
		The Grifters is a 1990 film directed by Stephen Frears.
		The Grifters was modeled after B-grade film noirs.
		For instance, the film explores the problematic relationship between Roy and his mother, hinting at a level of sexual tension and incest that may also partially acount for Myra's aggressive behaviour towards Lilly.
	www.worldwardiary.com /history/Grifters_%28film%29 (1278 words)

	Seven Times Lucky (2004) - Northern Stars
		If you missed the 1990 film The Grifters and you're not sure about the meaning of the word, a grifter is essentially anyone who makes a living as a swindler.
		Seven Times Lucky is a crime caper film that marks the feature debut of director Gary Yates.
		The film received excellent press when it screened as part of the World Cinema program at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.
	www.northernstars.ca /titles/2004/seven_times_lucky.html (189 words)

	In America (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The family consists of a father, mother, two young girls, and the subtle presence of a boy who died shortly before the family emigrated.
		His presence however is felt through the film.
		As it is my practice I will not divulge anymore information, since It is my function as an author to comment on a film in order to either promote it or tell the reader it isn't worth his/her time.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0298845 (508 words)

	channel4.com/film - The Grifters
		Stephen Frears had dabbled with film noir conventions some years earlier in the underrated Gumshoe (1971), but this adaptation of Jim Thompson's 1950s pulp novel, scripted by Donald E Westlake (aka Richard Stark, author of 'Point Blank') is the real deal.
		The Grifters succeeds not only because the director (here making his US feature debut) clearly loves the genre, but also because of the inspired casting.
		John Cusack's babyfaced con man (or 'grifter') Roy is having a run of bad luck.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=103986 (162 words)

	At-A-Glance Film Reviews: The Grifters (1990)
		The Grifters is quite a complex character study about three con artists, different, but each ruthlessly playing off the others.
		Alone, each character is only casually interesting; together, it's such a complicated mesh of passions, secrets, and double-crosses.
		More of a character study than a con game, this movie will please those who like to have something to think about -- and aren't afraid to face the shadier side of humanity.
	www.rinkworks.com /movies/m/the.grifters.1990.shtml (150 words)

	Links
		Jim Ferreira, whose studio is located in the San Francisco Bay Area, specialises in 'film noir portraiture'.
		: great collection of vintage crime, mystery, detective and film noir cinema posters; all for sale, though the best ones are definitely priced beyond the reach of most students and academics.
		Holding the rights to a number of pulp magazines, the site is able to ‘cyber-publish’ the vintage stories, and offers in addition interviews, non-fiction articles and many samples of the original art work.
	www.crimeculture.com /Contents/Links.html (2637 words)

	Bibliography/Reference
		Lavishly illustrared, opinionated overview of "one of the most enduring figures in american literary and film culture--the detective." You could drive a truck through some of the omissions, and sniff at some of Siegel's opinions, but this is one impressive work.
		A collection of essays on film noir that reassess the genre in light of contemporary social and political concerns, examining the role of the femme fatale and the reemergence of noir themes in new films by fl directors.
		Alain Silver is also the editor of the seminal Film Noir Reader series.
	www.thrillingdetective.com /trivia/triv73.html (6068 words)

	The Grifters Review Movie Review Film The Grifters: John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, Annette Bening; Review by David ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The outward story elements would initially have us believe in a straightfoward story of one person cheating another, but in reality, the characters here are cheating themselves, wallowing in their surpressed lifestyles of deception and disgust, stopping for mere moments to take introspective glances at what makes them work.
		Those looking for a more over-and-done-with film will be sorely disappointed, but those seeking a refreshingly different venue into the thriller genre will no doubt find "The Grifters" to be a highly rewarding experience.
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	www.movieeye.com /reviews/read_movie_review/860.html (374 words)

	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The winners are chosen by the Academy membership as a whole.
		Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by release year: for example, the Oscar for "Best Supporting Actress in 1999" was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000.
		For a list sorted by movie title, please see List of Best Supporting Actress nominees (films).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Supporting_Actress (695 words)

	The Grifters Film Review - Time Out Film
		The Grifters Film Review - Time Out Film
		See more cast & crew for this film
		The title refers to con artists like Roy Dillon (Cusack), who makes a living palming dollar bills in bars, or Myra (Bening), the feisty drifter who tries to steer him to the big time after a petty scam lands him in hospital.
	www.timeout.com /film/70586.html?cinema_id=388 (249 words)

	Reference
		In addition, the introductory essay describes the fascinating story of how this material ended up in the West.
		Computer-based catalogue of the Donnell Media Center film collection of over 4,000 titles comprising an extensive range of subjects and film types.
		Mystery and Crime provides hundreds of questions (and answers) on everything from Amateur Detectives to Sherlock Holmes to Private Eyes, Grifters, and Dames.
	www.nypl.org /publications/reference.cfm (3683 words)

	MyTvInfo : Film: The Grifters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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