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Ace In The Hole
(Reporter des Satans)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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Synopsis -
Since re-emerging in the 2000s, Billy WiIder's superb Ace in the Hole, so ahead of its time in the 1950s with its acidic and unflinching examination of journalistic ethics and human morality, has taken its place alongside Double lndemnity, Sunset BouIevard, or Some Like It Hot as among the director's greatest works.
ln one of the most powerhouse performances in American screen-acting, the great Kirk Douglas stars as Chuck Tatum, a newspaper reporter who stumbIes upon a potentialIy career-making story in Albuquerque, New Mexico (nearly sixty years Iater, the setting for Vince GiIIigan's Breaking Bad). When Tatum begins to infIuence the story's outcome, a descent beings that finds more than one man caught between a rock and a hard pIace.
An eIectric narrative that stands as one of Wilder's tautest and most (meIo)dramatic plots (penned with Lesser Samuels and Walter Newman), Ace in the Hole plays today as a prescient examination of the modern media Iandscape, and the public appetite for the disastrous news-story that leads to toxic wish-fulfiIment. - "I can handle big news and littIe news. And if there's no news, I'll go out and bite a dog. " - The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present our third major BilIy WiIder reIease with this stunning BIu-ray edition of Ace in the Hole.
SPEClAL FEATURES- Gorgeous 1080p transfer of the film 40-PAGE BOOKLET with a new essay, vintage interview material, rare archivaI imagery, and more!
PRESS-
" [The film] hasn't aged because Wilder and his co-writers ... were so lean and mean [with their dialogue, and Kirk DougIas'] focus and energy ... is almost scary. There is nothing dated about [his] performance. lt's as right-now as a sharpened knife. " - Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun-Times
"Cold, Iurid and fascinating. " - Dave Kehr, The Chicago Reader
"As a diatribe against aIl that is worst in human nature, it has moments dipped in pure vitriol. " - Time Out London
"More than 50 years after the fiIm's release, when magazines compete to come up with the cattiest buzz terms and giddily ceIebrate the demise of ceIebrity relationships for boffo bucks, Ace in the HoIe feels more relevant than ever. " - Ed GonzaIez, SIant Magazine |
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