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	Heist film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A heist film is a movie that has an intricate plot woven around a group of people trying to steal something.
		The "heist film" is the most well-known of a number of closely related archetypal storylines.
		All involving collaborative efforts that require elaborate preparation and dramatic fallout, there is also: the prison-break film, the assassination film, and the hostage film (usually shown from the opposite perspective: that of the hostages and the rescuers).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heist_film (615 words)

	Heist (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Heist is a crime thriller written and directed by David Mamet, and released in November 2001.
		Essentially a re-examination of Mamet's favorite device, the confidence game, the film was more of a success with critics than audiences.
		Roger Ebert is among the film's admirers, praising not only Mamet's trademark verbal constructions ("Everybody needs money -- that's why they call it money!") and restrained approach to on-screen gunplay, but also the care that the director takes in shaping the relationships between the principals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heist_(film) (383 words)

	The Heistmasters
		A heist is a robbery and confrontation is one of the prime elements.
		The planning can be the heart of the heist film, or the execution of the plan, or the aftermath of the heist; the chase, the gang defections, the self-imploding nature of the beast.
		Like the noir film, which the heist film overlaps, there is a relish to the darkness that threads its way into the fabric of these films.
	www.filmsondisc.com /features/heistmasters/heistmasters.htm (4098 words)

	Tape
		The film is set in a single hotel room and only has three characters, but it never flags for a moment of its running time (which is just under 90 minutes).
		It’s interesting that in the film, the character who was not involved in that incident is the one that has the most concrete definition of it.
		Credit must be given to the casts of both films, for managing to convey effectively the complexities of their roles, and to the directors who have both taken modestly plotted films and given them a great deal of additional intricacy.
	www.geocities.com /nyfilmfest/2001/heist.htm (945 words)

	DVD Review - Heist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		One could certainly argue that this was intentional as the film relies on the snappy dialogue and numerous plot twists to keep the audience engaged rather than utilizing the all too familiar "heist movie as music video" style that seems to have hijacked the genre.
		At a time when too many such films wander more into the realm of sci-fi it’s refreshing to see one in which the crime is committed in a wholly confusing yet realistic manner.
		"Heist" is presented in its theatrical 1.85:1 widescreen aspect ration in a transfer that enhanced for 16x9 TV sets, and the presentation is decent enough.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/heist.shtml (683 words)

	Film Noir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This grade 'B' suspenser is one of the darket studies in film noir.
		This film noir was made during the height of the McCarthy Era, by anti-establishment film star Humphrey Bogart with stunning femme fatale Gloria Grahame.
		Considered historically to be the first true film noir, this first-time directing effort by John Huston is still one of the all-time classics of film.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Noir/noir.htm (671 words)

	The Popkorn Junkie :: Heist
		David Mamet films are usually always pleasing and this one is no exception.
		"Heist" is entertaining on so many levels, I'll just narrow one down and say you should see if for the hilarious and fresh dialogue.
		Heist is a really good film directed and written by David Mamet.
	www.popkornjunkie.com /reviews/heist.html (605 words)

	UGO.com Film/TV - Review - Heist Feature
		Like all good businessmen, our heroes decide to use what their competitors have already put in place for their own gain and what follows is a clever show, fast-paced enough to keep you entertained and quick enough that you may even tune in next week to see where it's going.
		The writing in the first episode of Heist is not without its flaws, but Scott and Harris keep things moving smoothly enough that you don't really care about a few cheesy lines of dialogue or two-dimensional TV character development.
		Basically, Heist works when it stays with its charismatic leads and stumbles a bit when it's away, but, at least in the premiere, it doesn't go away that often.
	www.ugo.com /channels/filmtv/features/heist/review.asp (540 words)

	The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
		The sparse, gritty and tense film with a linear narrative is often considered the definitive heist or caper film, often copied and paid homage to by later films, many made during the sub-genre's flourishing in the 1950s:
		The hard-boiled MGM film of urban corruption, low-life alienation, and claustrophobic, small-time despair was adapted by John Huston and Ben Maddow from W. Burnett's novel of the same name.
		The film opens with shots of a bleak and decayed urban environment in an unnamed (Cincinnati?), smoggy midwestern locale - this establishes a documentary, nitty-gritty feel to the film.
	www.filmsite.org /asph.html (1962 words)

	Film Blather: Heist
		Expectations for any Mamet film, of course, are ludicrously high, seeing as nearly all of his films are clever, sharp and witty windows into human nature (and I didn't know that windows could be witty until I wrote that sentence).
		Heist is not one of those films, nor does it pretend to be.
		The plot is, indeed, about a heist, though the simplicity of the title does not belie the twists and turns that this backstab-fest takes before two hours pass by.
	www.ultimate-movie.com /review.php?n=heist (613 words)

	Film-Forward Review: [THE ASPHALT JUNGLE]
		This 1950 crime caper is a superbly-crafted heist movie, and remains a model of efficient cinematic storytelling.
		Gradually, the film emerges to be not only an anatomy of a crime and its unraveling, but a quietly evocative meditation on fate.
		Specifically, Casper places this film in the context of the production history at MGM, enthusiastically wondering at and admiring that a movie of a supposed low-brow genre was made under the banner of Tinseltown's most prestigious studio.
	www.film-forward.com /asphalt.html (298 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Reviews \| Heist (2001)
		But the thing that makes this film stand out is the actors' performance, especially Hackman's.
		This film is just missing the stylish nature of some crime thrillers like Ocean's Eleven.
		Though the opening scenes are promising, the film quickly loses credibility, with loose ends and gaping holes in the plot, and twists becoming predictable.
	film.guardian.co.uk /Reader_Review/0,4163,-90419,00.html (303 words)

	FilmJudge - Foolproof (2003)
		Elements of the heist film have been featured in the Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible films.
		Everyone in the film does their job and they seem to have enjoyed themselves despite a whirlwind schedule and Canadian pay cheques.
		The film is not a waste of time, but its also not going to be worth the $14 a movie will run you these days - plus snacks -- unless you are a fan of Reynolds, or a heist flick fanatic.
	www.filmjudge.ca /f/foolproof.htm (816 words)

	A Fistful of Reviews - Heist (2001)
		And, in a great heist film, the preparation and the gathering of materials and training is almost as cool (if not more so) than the heist itself.
		Hackman's face is videotaped during a heist of a diamond store and he decides that this is an omen that he should retire.
		I didn't see what the big deal is. Then the film has so many double crosses, triple crosses and plot twists that, by the end, I had no idea who was allied with who, who was doing what, or even why.
	members.tripod.com /jason_jones2/efgh/heist.htm (610 words)

	Heist movie Review at The Z Review UK movie review
		Heist is a crime caper film that relies more on character relationships along with driven dialogue than violence and special effects.
		The strength of the film is by far the characterization and dialogue of David Mamet’s writing.
		With Heist, Mamet takes on the crime genre and vamps it from an everyday heist film into a clever character driven film where the characters are more significant than what they are stealing.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /reviews/h/heist.htm (796 words)

	Greensburg Daily News, Greensburg, IN - Inside Man - Spike Lee’s most mainstream film
		Heist films, along with supernatural thrillers, are becoming the most exhausting sub-genre in Hollywood.
		The screenplay has more bite and intrigue than the average heist flick, partly because the story is told primarily without the audience knowing what the heist is. Many heist films get caught up in gadgets and daring escapes and don’t devote enough to the story and the characters.
		The film may have run a little longer than it needed to as well, but overall it is an extremely impressive effort.
	greensburgdailynews.com /opinion/local_story_089084911.html?... (856 words)

	Film Review: Heist
		Heist is not perfect but it is intelligent, sharp, and rather entertaining.
		The heist scenes represent only a short portion of the film, and while interesting, are not action-packed.
		However, the film moves fast and there are several plot twists.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/crime_films_tv/85026/3 (97 words)

	THE MAG: Film Review - 'Heist' \| LJWorld.com
		His eighth film "Heist" in some ways explains and demonstrates this fascination, because Mamet hoodwinks an audience the way his characters rob their victims.
		Most of the fun to be had during "Heist" comes from watching Hackman and his co-stars trying to outwit one another and often the audience in the process.
		An elaborate sequence of play acting in a bar later turns out to be of use later in the film, but one wonders if any successful thief would go to such trouble to fool someone who might not be at work on the day of the heist.
	www.ljworld.com /section/archive/story/72662 (977 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - Guy Ritchie will direct heist film
		Variety reports that the film tells the story of two Union officers and two soldiers who plan to rob trains loaded with Confederate gold.
		Filming on 'Six Shooters' is set to begin in March.
		Ritchie's last film, 'Swept Away', which starred wife Madonna, was savaged by critics and did not receive a cinema release in Ireland.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2003/0825/ritchieg.html (87 words)

	Weekend: A classic heist film
		Inside Man, a heist film with a top-flight cast, is cut from a different cloth than the usual "Spike Lee Joint," as he calls his productions.
		Lee's film is energized with several handheld camera sequences and a reprise of his old effect enabling a man to move across the screen with no apparent means of locomotion.
		It's also peppered with grainy flash-forwards to tautly edited post-crisis interviews with the hostages, which tend to undercut the suspense; too much is revealed too early about the upshot of the siege.
	www.sptimes.com /2006/03/23/Weekend/A_classic_heist_film.shtml (488 words)

	DVD Review: Bob Le Flambeur: Criterion
		The set-up for the film is largely simple, but it's the way that director Jean-Pierre Melville went about staging this noir that really makes the already-good performances and writing energized.
		A suspenseful film with style, substance and great performances, "Bob Le Flambeur" is a highly entertaining French import that probably influenced many of the more recent American heist pictures.
		Where most of the film seems pretty cleaned up and crisp, there are still some stray specks and the occasional mark on the print used.
	www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews4/bobleflambeurccdvd.html (568 words)

	Political Film Society - Heist
		The film focuses on a band of thieves which is accustomed to turning over its loot to Bergman (played by Danny DeVito), a fence with a nasty habit of cheating the thieves and of exhibiting a nasty personality.
		After stiffing the gang on a jewelry robbery, Bergman insists that the gang must steal a Swiss gold shipment, using his nephew Jimmy Silk (Sam Rockwell) in the crime to prevent the gang from cheating him.
		The story moves quickly, thanks to director David Mamet, and we see many clever aspects of the heist and many doublecrosses.
	www.geocities.com /~polfilms/heist.html (141 words)

	Heist (2001): Reviews
		Heist is a neat, bouncy, minor-key crime procedural that shakes no rafters.
		Passable but never exciting, Heist is on a level with those minor Burt Lancaster action pics the actor's name helped bankroll in the '70s.
		I hesitate to say this, but if you know anything about real heists you know this is how it generally goes down.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/heist (1194 words)

	Film Info
		When an accidental death presents him with the chance to pull off a real heist, Espinoza naïvely places himself in the center of a scheme to rob an armored van.
		As a heist film, The Aura sports a shrewd, serpentine plot, and Bielinsky allows us the fun of trying to arrange puzzle pieces on our own.
		A former professor of film production and analysis at the Professional School of Cinema in Buenos Aires, Bielinsky won first prize in the 1998 Patagonik Film Group new film talent scriptwriting competition.
	festival.sundance.org /filmguide/popup.aspx?film=7356 (317 words)

	Amazon.com: Heist (2001): Video: David Mamet,Gene Hackman,Danny DeVito,Delroy Lindo,Sam Rockwell,Rebecca Pidgeon,Ricky ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Heist (2001), written and directed by David Mamet, certainly involves a lot of criminal activity, if you couldn't tell that from the title.
		With regards to Heist, it's very difficult to tell if what's happening is for real or a part of some elaborate plan designed to put other events into motion.
		But what you have to keep in mind while listening to the dialog in this film, the characters only really use the sort of jibberty jabberty dialog when they are speaking within their own group, or members of the criminal element in general.
	www.amazon.com /Heist-David-Mamet/dp/B00005UQEG (2831 words)

	Heist : filmcritic.com Movie Review
		The guy’s authored some of the best film and theatre works in the past decade -- The Verdict, House of Games, Wag the Dog, State and Main, and the guy even won a Pulitzer Prize for his play Glengarry Glen Ross.
		Heist twists and turns along the road of documenting the shady life of career jewel thief Joe Moore (Gene Hackman) and his posse of thieves -- Bobby Blane (Delroy Lindo) and Don "Pinky" Pincus (Ricky Jay).
		But the main problem with Heist is how surprisingly predictable the story is. Unlike the similar yet far superior The Score, there's never any surprise during Heist's twisting.
	filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/2a460f93626cd4678625624c007f2b46/3e08ce66e5a98f4788256ae20074f5c0?OpenDocument (645 words)

	Heist Movie Review by Anthony Leong from MediaCircus.net
		Now comes the appropriately-named "Heist", which in addition to fitting firmly into the latter group, marks a return of playwright-turned-director David Mamet to the suspense-thriller arena he is best known for.
		In the case of "Heist", his name is Joe Moore (Gene Hackman of "Heartbreakers"), who decides to retire on his sailboat with partner-in-crime and wife Fran (Rebecca Pidgeon, aka Mrs.
		Like the classic Mamet thriller, "Heist" possesses an expertly-plotted script that is both surprising and thought-provoking-- there are a number of plot twists in the film that may not make sense or seem arbitrary at first glance, but are then revealed to be masterful attempts at misdirection.
	www.mediacircus.net /heist.html (544 words)

	Hour.ca - Film - Movie details - Inside Man
		The best heist movies are those where the execution of the crime is both deviously complicated and beautifully efficient, so that the viewer cannot help but put aside any qualms they may have about the morality of what they are watching and instead marvel at the clockwork precision of the criminal's plot.
		For all authentic films pundants and serious movie goers out there, it`s already written in stone for them that this is yet again going to be a big hit from the always flawless Denzel Washington.
		This film was shown at the snowyfest International Film Festival on 15 June 2005 in Australia.
	hour.ca /film/movie.aspx?iIDFilm=8520 (5254 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Heist [2001]: DVD: David Mamet,Gene Hackman,Danny DeVito,Delroy Lindo,Sam Rockwell,Rebecca Pidgeon,Ricky ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Heist certainly has more than its fair share of twists and turns and is full of bluff, deception and double-crossing, keeping the viewer more than a little hooked right to the end.
		Gene Hackman once again shows how capable he is and engages with the audience as soon as the film starts and although Danny Divito only acts a small part in the film he plays this part excellently.
		Overall this film deserves the 4 stars I've given it with the only things keeping it from having a 5 star rating being the guessable twists to the plot and the poor DVD extras but its still worth buying.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Heist-David-Mamet/dp/B0000649K6 (1297 words)

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