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The 35 Best Heist Movies

Rodrigo Perez — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:38:00 +0000

Almost inseparable from the inception of cinema, the heist genre has enraptured audiences for generations, as it offers an escapist appeal to the anti-hero and the outlaw. There is something intrinsically cinematic about heist films, with the best of them moving like a captivating ballet through the intricacies of elaborate schemes to get rich and get away.

Edgar Wright‘s newly released “Baby Driver” offers an homage to the rich history of heist-induced exhilaration (our review).

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Casing ‘The Town’: Our All-Time Favorite Heist Movies

Rodrigo Perez — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:27:00 +0000

Ever since 1903’s “The Great Train Robbery” virtually invented cinema as we know it (the first use of cross-cutting, camera movement and on-location shooting), film and the heist picture have been inseparable. Maybe it’s the escapist appeal of the outlaw, maybe it’s people’s hatred of banks, or maybe it’s that act of stealing things that don’t belong to you that is intrinsically cinematic, but the form has been consistently popular for over a century now.

While it’s never really gone away, and probably never will, the past few months have seen a brace of new entries, from the sublime (“Inception,” which despite its sci-fi trappings is really a good old-fashioned caper movie) to the ridiculous (Hayden Christensen and his eminently punchable pork pie hat in “Takers”).

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Paul Schrader Heads To Mumbai For Bollywood Action Flick ‘Extreme City’

Rodrigo Perez — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:13:00 +0000

Has Danny Boyle started a trend? First his “Slumdog Millionaire” film is set in Mumbai and somehow becomes a major indie and critical hit in North America and now director Paul Schrader is packing his bags and heading to the same exotic locale.

Schrader – who famously wrote “Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull” and directed several great films like “American Gigolo” and “Blue Collar” – is writing and directing, “Extreme City” which is about an American man who travels to India to help resolve a kidnapping case for his father-in-law, only to get caught up the gangsters plot.

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