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	The Osterman Weekend - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Osterman Weekend is a 1983 film directed by Sam Peckinpah.
		It is based on the novel written by Robert Ludlum.
		John Tanner (Hauer), the host of an investigative news show, is convinced by Lawrence Fassett (Hurt), a CIA agent, that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Osterman_Weekend (131 words)

	The Osterman Weekend
		Building on the distrust spawned by the Nixon era, The Osterman Weekend’s story of CIA intrigue is adapted from an early Robert Ludlum novel.
		But as the weekend quickly unravels with hidden tensions and behind the scenes string pulling, the true nature of events is revealed and leads to a final action packed conclusion where everyone’s mask comes off.
		A last aspect of The Osterman Weekend that renders it eminently watchable is the filmmaker’s attempt to instill the cliché-ridden plot with a bit more juice, sliding in notions on the voyeurism inherent in our culture and the sociological implications of television technology.
	www.boxofficeprophets.com /column/index.cfm?columnID=8272 (1228 words)

	The Osterman Weekend: Divimax Collection (1983)
		For investigative TV host John Tanner (Rutger Hauer), the news comes on the eve of a reunion weekend at his home where the traitors (Craig T. Nelson, Dennis Hopper and Chris Sarandon) are all placed under intense surveillance by a mysterious CIA operative (John Hurt).
		Ultimately, The Osterman Weekend presents some decent twists as it goes, but it lacks the depth and concise story-telling necessary to rescue it.
		The Osterman Weekend appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
	www.dvdmg.com /ostermanweekend.shtml (2003 words)

	DVD Authority - Printable DVD Review of The Osterman Weekend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		His assignment is to help reveal one or all of them as Russian spies, but getting through the weekend in one piece and revealing their sources isn't as easy as Tanner thinks for he is being watched all over his house, even in places where he doesn't know.
		As Osterman, Craig T. Nelson is wonderful as Osterman, a man with some secrets and a man of danger but realizes that there may be more to this weekend then just a meeting of old friends and reminicing about good times.
		With negatives mostly from the visual transfer of the film, The Osterman Weekend's many audio tracks is an improvement in that the audio has been cleaned up with not too much mutedness evident in many films of the early eighties.
	www.dvdauthority.com /print_friendly.asp?reviewid=3821 (1370 words)

	The Osterman Weekend (1983) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Near to the seventh annual meeting to celebrate their graduation and friendship, the successful anchor of a television network John Tanner (Rutger Hauer) is convinced by CIA director Maxwell Danforth (Burt Lancaster) and his agent Lawrence Fassett (John Hurt) that his best friends belong to a Soviet Union organization called Omega.
		A complicated and very evil plot is disclosed along the weekend.
		Yesterday I saw "The Osterman Weekend" maybe for the fourth time, but now on DVD, and I still like it.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0086058 (477 words)

	THE OSTERMAN WEEKEND - SAM PECKINPAH COMMEMORATIVE 2-DISC EDITION DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Serving as a bridge of sorts between the psychosexual circus of Brian De Palma's Dressed to Kill (1980) and the technology/media fear of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982) and David Cronenberg's Videodrome (1983), the film strikes a balance between the paranoia cinema of the 1970s and the technophilic sci-fi wonderland of the 1980s.
		As we watch The Osterman Weekend, we're put in the position of Fassett behind his bank of monitors, fantasizing about his last tryst with his wife as he watches Tanner and his missus, Ali (Meg Foster), have sex.
		The Osterman Weekend is a mirror for the individual ruined by his culture, taken for a patsy, robbed, lied to, and, in true Peckinpah vernacular, fucked unkindly by the monoliths we trust.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/ostermanweekend.htm (1709 words)

	DVD : The Osterman Weekend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Looking forward to a weekend of socializing with old friends (played by Craig T. Nelson, Dennis Hopper, and Chris Sarandon), Tanner is approached by a CIA agent (John Hurt) who tells him his friends may be Soviet agents.
		Tanner agrees to let the spy agency set up surveillance in his house; it turns out there is more to the agent's claims than meets the eye and Tanner's weekend eventually erupts into violence.
		Osterman is not Peckinpah at his best (though, typically, the director was under siege from production politics), but the maestro of montage certainly worked in some extraordinary action sequences.
	www.ajeno.com /B00012FX4K/The_Osterman_Weekend.shtml (575 words)

	Osterman Market Research, Cost Modeling And Benchmarking For Technology Companies Welcome. Osterman Resea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Larry Osterman is a Seattle-based turner of wood and stone bowls and vases.
		The Osterman Weekend - the film by Sam Peckinpah - with a biography of director Sam Peckinpah His last film was The Osterman Weekend (1983).
		I found the second book he ever wrote, The Osterman Weekend, in a used bookstore Being a Ludlum reader I have hear of "The Osterman Weekend" for years.
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	The Osterman Weekend
		The Osterman Weekend is a film about multiple conspiracy, human relations, violence and morals.
		Together with their wives, the four had studied together in Berkley and they meet once a year for the so-called Osterman-weekend, named after Bernard Osterman, one of the four, at whose home the meeting first took place.
		Fassett, Stennings and Danforth first have to persuade Tanner, a critic of Danforth (who wants to become President of the United States), that his three friends are spies.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo6/osterman.htm (829 words)

	DVD Savant Review: The Osterman Weekend
		If a major company had The Osterman Weekend in its vaults it would probably be released as a straight no-frills disc.
		He agrees to help "turn" one of them at their yearly sleepover weekend, in return for getting the high-level CIA chief Maxwell Danforth (Burt Lancaster) as a guest on his show.
		The Osterman Weekend is basically a low-budget independent but the physical limitations aren't the problem.
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	THE HIGH HAT \| NITRATE: The Osterman Weekend
		Despite the warm feelings of two generations of critics, the truth is that The Osterman Weekend was a mediocrity at best and a catastrophe at worst.
		Based on a best-selling novel by spy-thriller populist Robert Ludlum, The Osterman Weekend features Rutger Hauer as a confrontational TV journalist and super-patriot who’s pressed into service by brilliant, risk-taking CIA operative John Hurt (under the supervision of CIA director Burt Lancaster, a fanatical red-hunter with presidential designs).
		The Osterman Weekend, though made in 1983, feels a lot more like the Cold War espionage thrillers of the 1970s and has a suitably Byzantine plot to show for it.
	www.thehighhat.com /Nitrate/002/osterman_weekend.html (1486 words)

	Notherby's :: The Osterman Weekend
		The commentary has a number of fascinating bits of trivia as well as observations about the film, performances and story that are very interesting.
		While it isn't a perfect film, "The Osterman Weekend" is a fine thriller and well worth viewing particularly if you're a Peckinpah fan.
		What is so unfortunate is that the cast was made up of very capable actors, many of whom have given much better performances with other directors.
	www.northerbys.com /store/B00012FX4K/The_Osterman_Weekend.html (1787 words)

	Osterman Weekend, The Review (1983)
		This convoluted spy caper was based on the novel by Robert Ludlum, adapted by Ian Masters and scripted by Alan Sharp, and was the last film of its director, Sam Peckinpah, who had not directed a film since Convoy five years previously.
		It would be nice to say that Peckinpah left us with one real gem, but The Osterman Weekend is so wrapped up in a plot that deliberately sets out to confuse that only those viewers prepared to pay the maximum attention to the deceptions and double crosses need bother watching.
		There is a peculiar streak of dark wit running through The Osterman Weekend, which ranges from a dog's head in a fridge to Hurt's cleverly insinuating performance, and the action, full of slow motion shots of course, is exciting enough.
	www.thespinningimage.co.uk /cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=763 (738 words)

	DVD Times - The Osterman Weekend
		Over the course of the weekend, loyalties are exposed, switched and switched again and some unlikely alliances develop, with the unforgiving lenses of Fassett’s cameras observing everything.
		From a cop chastising Osterman for his “strident writing” to the final, cruelly funny distortion of the famous “His Master’s Voice” image, the film keeps bubbling up with wit and humour.
		The Osterman Weekend is far from a great film but it is a gripping and revealing one which is ageing very well, not least for the incisive comments it makes on our current obsession with reality TV.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=10909 (3578 words)

	The Osterman Weekend DVD Review (Sam Peckinpah) By Erin Cullin Empire Movies
		The Osterman Weekend, Sam Peckinpah's movie adaptation of Robert Ludlum's best-selling novel of the same name, is now available on DVD.
		The Osterman Weekend is the last movie that Sam Peckinpah directed before his death in 1984.
		In spite of this artistic license taken with the material, the movie's storyline, while at times a bit confusing and awkward, was gripping and built to a rather surprising and shocking twist at the conclusion.
	www.empiremovies.com /dvd/reviews/erin/the_osterman_weekend.shtml (583 words)

	Monsters At Play: The Osterman Weekend Review
		Unfortunately, the traitors he is exposing are his friends taking part in the titular Osterman Weekend.
		Anchor Bay has released The Osterman Weekend as part of their Divimax series with sadly mixed results.
		While not as lauded as his other films, Sam Peckinpah’s The Osterman Weekend is still highly recommended for spy and action junkies.
	www.monstersatplay.com /review/dvd/o/osterman.php (925 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Osterman Weekend: Original Mot [Soundtrack] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sam Peckinpah's last film, The Osterman Weekend, was a complicated piece of espionage hokum with a rag-tag character actor cast.
		His score for Sam Peckinpah's final film, the 1983 thriller THE OSTERMAN WEEKEND, has long needed to be re-released.
		My personal favorites are the "Osterman Weekend Theme" (though not used in the film), and the eerie "Omega".
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000IQLO (432 words)

	The Osterman Weekend
		Interesting that it should be so conspiracy oriented considering where the notorious director’s drug addled head was at during his last few years.
		The CIA convinces him that these men are threats to American security and that he has to do his part to help them bring them down as it is in the best interests of the country.
		The action sequences are well directed and intense and while, as I mentioned early, some of the slow-mo is unnecessary, about fifty percent of the time it does accentuate the violence and lend it a more dramatic quality.
	www.dvdmaniacs.net /Reviews/M-P/osterman_weekend.html (1135 words)

	The Osterman Weekend
		So even Ludlam's best books have defied adaptation, and The Osterman Weekend wasn't considered one of Ludlam's best books, and those that have read it say this movie has virtually nothing to do with it anyway.
		The four men are scheduled to have an annual get-together during the upcoming weekend, so the CIA installs bugs, cameras, and security devices throughout the TV host's house, in preparation for a weekend of extreme psychological warfare.
		He was in poor health, with studio execs breathing down his neck, and he was working on a screenplay that he had no creative control over, made from arguably the worst novel that Robert Ludlam ever wrote.
	www.fakes.net /osterman.htm (1488 words)

	EI > DVD > Osterman Weekend, The (1983)
		As misfire's go, "The Osterman Weekend" is better than most.
		Based on the best selling novel by Robert Ludlum, "The Osterman Weekend" is a convoluted tale of paranoia, revenge and media manipulation.
		The reunions are called Ostermans in honor of the first host.
	www.einsiders.com /reviews/dvd/show_dvd.php?review_dvd=123 (960 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - The Osterman Weekend -- Sam Peckinpah - DVD - Wide Screen / Mono
		John Tanner (Rutger Hauer) is the host of a television news show who once a year spends a long weekend with three of his best friends from college, Bernard Osterman (Craig T. Nelson), Joseph Cardone (Chris Sarandon), and Richard Tremayne (Dennis Hopper).
		Tanner is approached by Lawrence Fassett (John Hurt), a CIA agent who has evidence proving that his three pals are actually agents working with the Soviet Union.
		With Tanner's reluctant approval, his house is wired with video surveillance equipment so that the CIA can monitor what Osterman, Cardone, and Tremayne say and do over their weekend together in hopes of putting the traitors behind bars.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?ean=13131258790&frm=0&itm=8 (258 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Osterman Weekend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This thinly plotted story deals with a group of friends coming together for a weekend of fun and relaxation, but is being used by the government to unmask a melodramatic group of loonies threatening something, or whatever...
		The Ostermans are from California, and seem to be the glue that holds all of this together.
		John Tanner, one of the group, is approached by the CIA stating that the Ostermans are really involved in organized crime, as are the other members of the group.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553264303?v=glance (1605 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: The Osterman Weekend
		The tension is heightened by the men's odd relationships with their spouses: Tanner and his wife Ali (Meg Foster) seem strained, while Richard's wife Virginia (Helen Shaver) is addicted to cocaine, and Bettie Cardone (Cassie Yates) comes across as just shrewish (Osterman is unmarried).
		The Osterman Weekend has been called confusing, and that's not fair: The conclusion is easily followed — it just doesn't make a lot of character-sense.
		Also of note is the film's fascination with spying and manipulating what people say to one's own end, but these elements only point out how much better Francis Coppola's The Conversation is. Anchor Bay has released The Osterman Weekend in a two-disc special edition.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/o/ostermanweekend.q.shtml (415 words)

	Moviefone: The Osterman Weekend Movie
		The Osterman Weekend - the film by Sam Peckinpah - with a biography of director Sam Peckinpah.
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	Variety.com - Reviews - The Osterman Weekend
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		Sam Peckinpah's The Osterman Weekend is a competent, professional but thoroughly impersonal mellermeller which reps initial adaptation of a Robert Ludlum tome for the big screen.
		Hauer is about to host an annual weekend get-together with his buddies and their wives.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117793772?categoryid=31&cs=1 (301 words)

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