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Jim Thompson: Pulp friction
Oklahoma City :: OK :: USA | almost 3 years ago
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When The Killer Inside Me screened at the Sundance Festival in January, the first question the British director Michael Winterbottom was asked was: "How dare you?" A few days later, at the Berlin Festival, people walked out during the press screening.
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Michael Winterbottom finds the killer inside Jim Thompson
London :: United Kingdom | almost 3 years ago
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I'm surely not alone in thinking that the crime writer's violent, nihilistic essence has never arrived on the screen unalloyed. In Stanley Kubrick's The Killing, for which Thompson wrote the screenplay, his black-hearted sensibility is mediated
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Director 'surprised' by reaction
London :: United Kingdom | almost 3 years ago
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The movie stars Ben Affleck's brother Casey as a psychopathic deputy sheriff in 1950s Texas. "I don't think they are that visually graphic compared to other films," Winterbottom told the BBC. "I think it's more to do with Casey's performance and the
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One dead after stolen car smashes into home
London :: United Kingdom | 3 years ago
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One man is dead and two others critically injured after a stolen car plowed into a house in Old South in London. The names of the victim and others injured when their car crashed into a porch at 140 Langarth St. before hitting a second house at 8:30
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Thompson named in Scotland squad
Tucumán :: Argentina | 3 years ago
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The Edinburgh back is the only player in the 27-man squad yet to feature for his country, as Robinson adds five men to the 22 who beat Ireland in March. Leinster lock Nathan Hines is not available for the matches in Tucuman and Mar Del Plata for
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Ex-Gov. Thompson buys rare Ill.-carved duck decoy
Spring Valley :: NV :: USA | 3 years ago
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A century-old wooden duck decoy carved in Bureau Junction went from being forgotten and neglected to becoming a prized possession of former Illinois Gov. Jim Thompson. In the world of collectibles and antiques, the decoy discovery and then $100,625
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Leinster 37-28 Edinburgh: Scots outgunned by leaders Leinster
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | 3 years ago
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10 May 2010 at the RDS Play-off hopes vanish despite a daring display in Dublin . . . Dublin but still went down to a never-say-die Leinster outfit who finished top of the regular season table. Edinburgh would not have qualified anyway but they still
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Jessica Alba “takes on Angelina to become Hollywood’s hottest heroine”
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 3 years ago
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This is the cover for the June issue of Britain’s Tatler magazine...The green pops, and she looks flawless and beautiful and surprisingly, not like she‘s being tortured. But I have to quibble with the cover line: “Jessica Alba takes on Angelina to
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The Killer Inside Me and violent one-upmanship | Ryan Gilbey
London :: United Kingdom | 3 years ago
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Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel The Killer Inside Me features explicit depictions of violence. Photograph: PR Whenever the cry goes up about the desensitising effect of violence in the media, it is usually the trashy or the
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Erica Abeel: "THE KILLER INSIDE ME": CAN BATTERING WOMEN BE ENTERTAINMENT?
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 3 years ago
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Now, with "The Killer Inside, Me," Winterbottom attempts a noir thriller. It's adapted from the cult novel by 50's pulp writer Jim Thompson ("The Grifters"), who specialized in tales of homicidal sickos. Because of the violence visited upon female
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