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Entries Tagged as 'Robert Ludlum'

The Bourne Ultimatum (2007, Paul Greengrass)

August 27th, 2007 No Comments

The only good thing about The Bourne Ultimatum, besides Joan Allen, who can apparently survive (and fluorish in) anything, is how rabidly anti-Republican the film’s details get. The film’s CIA bad guys in this one are using the “war on terror“ to assasinate US citizens. I haven’t read an outcry about it, so I imagine […]

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The Osterman Weekend (1983, Sam Peckinpah)

March 22nd, 2006 No Comments

Very few filmmakers have a good last film. Kubrick was incredibly lucky. Hitchcock was not. In general, directors tend to wane in their later careers–Clint Eastwood’s blossoming into such an artist aside–and, depending on their popularity and influence, they live into the era they inspired and no one wants to listen to them anymore. Orson […]

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