Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hostages is finishing off its week at the Harvard Sq. Theater, and without a doubt it's the best new movie around. The plot centers around three French thieves who take a judge hostage when their legal situation becomes hopeless. A very exciting and sympathetic portrait that gets better and better every time you see it. It's playing with another wonderful film about French criminals, Borsalino. Jean Paul Belmondo gives a marvelous performance as an up-and-comer in the Marseilles rackets...
...1930s detective movies, is one of the few really good films playing in Boston this week. Jack Nicholson is no Humphrey Bograt, but he does make an extremely convincing badass private eye. When Faye Dunaway is good, she's very good, and in this one she's excellent. The plot is fun but ultimately insignificant. Worth traveling out of Cambridge for, Chinatown is playing at Cleveland Circle...
...basic plot concerns two thieves and an accomplice-wife who take a judge hostage during their trial and use him to make good their bid for freedom. The core of narrative does an adequate job of building suspense (if you don't think too hard about it), and on that score alone the movie will hold your attention--at least for its duration. And although this is a better-than-average thriller, it is not on that level that the movie makes its real impact. Unlike the newspapers, Molinaro gives his characters a past and a future, bringing them alive...
...Hostages is hardly a cinemagraphic masterpiece, even in its portrayals of the human condition. Too many times it descends into pseudo-psychology, and too many pieces of the plot don't fit together. But these shortcomings can and should be overlooked, because as a unit the movie is a wonderful journalistic portrait of three people who are caught up in crime, but who are also much more than criminals...
...telephone system. In foreign affairs he was the first postwar advocate of nonalignment, urging a "third position" as an alternative to joining the blocs led either by the U.S. or the Soviet Union. He conducted a vociferous anti-U.S. campaign, alleging that there was a "gigantic North American plot" to seize Cuban sugar, Bolivian tin, Chilean copper and Central American bananas. To the dismay of South America's upper classes, Perón encouraged the growth of labor unions all over the continent...